Projects

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DELIAH. Democratic literacy and humour

2025

Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic ...read more
Art
Belgium
Central Europe
Comparative
Contemporary
Democracy
Dutch
Eastern Europe
Eastern European languages
English
Field research
French
Gender
German
Humor
Interculturalism
Italian
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Media
Northern Europe
Quantitative
Southern Europe
Spanish
Surveys
Theatre and performing arts
Translation Studies
Western Europe
Re-BAR. Boundaries of the religious

2025

This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Arabic
Area studies
Comparative
Contemporary
Didactics
English
Ethics and morality
Field research
Gender
Geographic and map based
History
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Literary studies
Media
Middle Ages
Middle East
Philosophy
Religion
Language tests for migration and integration. A comparative analysis of evidential and consequential validity

2025

This project proposal seeks to bridge significant gaps in the understanding of Migration or Integration Language Tests (MILTs) by scrutinizing their rationale, construction, operationalization, and impact within the contexts of migration and ...read more
Comparative
Didactics
Dutch
English
Field research
German
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
Surveys
Western Europe
Hagiographic entanglements of the long tenth century

2025

This project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in this ...read more
Comparative
Geographic and map based
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe
A story of language vitality and endangerment. Sociohistorical resistance in chiquitano

2025

Bésɨro and Bolivian Guaraní are two communities in Bolivia that share a history of forced migrations and, to this day, face linguistic and cultural erasure. However, they adopted opposite survival ...read more
Comparative
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
South America
Surveys
The discrete translator. Strategies of paratextual (self-)representation in literary French/Dutch translations

2024

Over the past years, in Europe and the US, various initiatives were launched to #namethe translator on the cover of books. Does increased visibility for translators and translations necessarily lead ...read more
20th Century
Art
Belgium
Comparative
Dutch
French
Gender
History
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Media
Translation Studies
Western Europe
Evaluating the humanities. The history of scholar-to-scholar evaluation in the European humanities (1950-today)

2024

This project studies the overlooked history of peer review in the humanities between 1950 and today. In this period, peer review, i.e., the institutionalized evaluations of research and researchers by ...read more
20th Century
Comparative
Contemporary
History
History of humanities
Language and text analysis
Northern Europe
peer review
sociology of knowledge
Western Europe
Playing with fire. Disentangling anthropogenic and climate induced fire events during the late glacial and early holocene in the sandy lowlands of Belgium and the southern Netherlands

2024

The impact of hunter-gatherers on the environment has been a controversial topic since at least the 1960’s. In Northwestern-Europe it is generally assumed that humans only started influencing their environment ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Comparative
English
Field research
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
'Imitations' and 'betrayals' in dannunzian classicism. Translation commentary and intertextual research in D’Annunzio’s youth poetry

2024

The title of this project alludes to the terms used by Gabriele D'Annunzio to describe his translation experiments (from Latin and Ancient Greek) in his first youthful collection of poems. ...read more
19th Century
Antiquity
Classical reception
Comparative
D'Annunzio
Fortleben
Greek
Italian
Language and text analysis
Latin
Literary studies
Translation Studies
Western Europe
HI-LANDeS. More-than-human histories of rural landscapes in the Andes, 19th-20th century

2023

In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Area studies
Comparative
Contemporary
Dutch
English
Field research
Geographic and map based
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
South America
Spanish

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