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  • Multilingual encounters in the late medieval town. Rewriting history in multilingual social and political contexts in late medieval Flanders and Brabant (1380-1500)

    2019

    This project deals with the various multilingual social networks in the commercial towns in the County of Flanders and the Duchy of Brabant during the Late Middle Ages (1380-1500). The ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • History
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Western Europe

  • Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology (1830-1952)

    2018

    In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Digital humanities
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • History
    • History of science
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Middle East
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • Turning diversity into capacity

    2018

    Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Capacity building
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Cross-sectoral valorisation
    • Diversity
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • North-South exchange
    • Social inequalities in education

  • Production and diffusion of bronze age solid-hilted swords in Western Europe

    2018

    The proposed study region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, belongs during the Bronze Age to an area of contact between different cultural complexes. Its western part was integrated in ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • A semantic and etymological study on Greek ἀραρίσκω 'to adapt' and its cognates

    2018

    The purpose of this project is to perform a semantic and etymological study of the Greek verb ἀραρίσκω ‘to adapt’ and its cognates. The origin of the word, i.e. its ...read more

    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Asia
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • Eastern European languages
    • English
    • Etymology
    • Far East
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • History
    • Icelandic
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • Linguistics
    • Middle East
    • Northern Europe
    • Oriental languages
    • Proto-Indo-European
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Russian
    • Sanskrit
    • Southern Europe
    • Western Europe

  • Cognitive load in interpreting. Similarities and differences between sign language interpreters and oral interpreters

    2018

    The project aims to explore the cognitive load of sign language interpreting and compare it with oral interpreting. The premise aims to establish whether sign language interpreters face a comparable ...read more

    • Belgium
    • cognitive load
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Flemish Sign Language
    • French
    • Interpreting studies
    • Linguistics
    • North America
    • Northern Europe
    • Oceania
    • Quantitative
    • Sign language
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe

  • Children in comics. An intercultural history from 1865 to today

    2018

    Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness. This project advances ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Body
    • carnivalesque
    • childhood studies
    • Children's literature
    • Comics studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • family
    • French
    • Gender
    • German
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • North America
    • Northern Europe
    • Southern Europe
    • Spanish
    • Western Europe

  • Bathing on the edge of the empire

    2018

    The Romans were the first to introduce communal bathing habits in northern Gaul (modern Belgium, Northern France and part of the Netherlands). These highly technological and richly decorated bathhouses were ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • Roman archaeology
    • Roman baths
    • Western Europe

  • Didactic communities. Performing moral instruction across North-Western European nobility in the high middle ages

    2017

    Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more

    • Comparative
    • Didactics
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Western Europe

  • Comparison of early Ottoman and Burgundian political theory

    2017

    The principal aim of this research project is to compare the predominant concepts of the Ottoman and Burgundian political discourse in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Even though reciprocal ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • Arabic
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • French
    • History
    • Middle Ages
    • Middle East
    • Turkish
    • Western Europe