Projects

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Inland waterways in the Roman transport network of the Gallic and Germanic provinces (c. 50 BC – c. AD 400)

2017

Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Comparative
English
French
Geographic and map based
German
Greek
History
Latin
Quantitative
Surveys
Western Europe
Markers and makers of tradition. The serially published modernist 'little' anthology, 1912-1930

2017

This project studies the modernist poetry anthology in relation to the modernist magazine to shed new light on the formation of a modernist tradition. It examines a corpus of serially ...read more
20th Century
English
History
Literary studies
North America
Western Europe
Global families, global inequalities. The politics of child relinquishment, search and reunion in transnational adoption

2017

The proposed research aims to investigate the transnational adoption of children from the perspectives of actors in ‘sending’ countries. These perspectives have received insufficient attention in adoption research so far, ...read more
20th Century
Andean studies
Contemporary
Critical adoption studies
English
Ethics and morality
Family studies
Feminist theory
Field research
Gender
Indigenous studies
Interculturalism
Kinship studies
Latin American studies
Postcolonial studies
South America
Spanish
Subaltern studies
Imaginations of emptiness. Twentieth-century Zen Buddhist literature as utopian narrative and spiritual autobiography

2017

“Encounter dialogue” is perhaps the most recognizable of all (Zen) Buddhist genres. Better known under their abbreviated form as kōan, these texts portray mysterious verbal sparring bouts between Zen masters ...read more
20th Century
Asia
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Japanese
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Religion
Ptolemaic state monopolies. Predation or prosperity?

2017

A striking feature of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt (305–30 BC) is the apparent extent of state controland intervention in industry and trade. A multitude of state-imposed rules and regulations can ...read more
Africa
Antiquity
Area studies
Comparative
English
Greek
History
Language and text analysis
Quantitative
Narrating the mesh. Ecology and the nonhuman in contemporary fiction and oral storytelling

2017

Today’s ecological crisis prompts us to rethink our attitude towards physical and natural realities that have traditionally been seen as opposed to human subjectivity and agency. What emerges from this ...read more
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
North America
Quantitative
Western Europe
Paint on rolls? Belgian modernists, household experts and residents on the use of wallpaper as an interior finish during the interwar period

2017

Although wallpaper defines the living environment of so many people, this type of wall finish is often criticised. During the interwar period, when ‘the art of living’ became an important ...read more
20th Century
Art
Belgium
Comparative
Dutch
English
Field research
French
Geographic and map based
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Quantitative
Kala (black) for Kalbeliya, saphed (white) for Kalbeliya. Intercultural dialogues between Indian and Euro-American practitioners of Kalbeliya dance

2017

Indian dances have since long inspired women around the world, not only increasing the international success of staged performances, but also inspiring large numbers of Euro-American women to learn and/or ...read more
20th Century
Art
Asia
Belgium
Central Europe
Contemporary
Dutch
Eastern Europe
English
Field research
Gender
Hindi
History
Interculturalism
Media
Music
North America
Northern Europe
Oriental languages
South America
Southern Europe
Theatre and performing arts
Western Europe
SENTiVENT. Event extraction and sentiment analysis for financial applications

2017

In economic news, journalists and analysts give objective information on recent events while also discussing the implications of events in an implicitly subjective manner. We investigate automated text mining approaches ...read more
Contemporary
Dutch
English
Language technology
EXTRACT. Extracting terminology automatically from comparable texts

2017

Specialised, domain-specific vocabulary, i.e. terminology, has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand and translate well. Nonetheless, terms often contain essential information and a good comprehension is imperative in many ...read more
Comparative
Dutch
English
French
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Quantitative

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