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  • Geoarchaeology and palaeoDEMs modelling to assess the archaeological potential of Ravenna and its hinterland

    2018

    Multidisciplinary and diacronich project which aim is to reconstruct the physical evolution of the landscape around Ravenna (Italy) since the Roman Age until today and how this influenced the human ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • Reading Pushkin, supporting Putin. Russian literature and the Kremlin’s nation-building agenda

    2018

    This project explores recent efforts by the Russian state to restore the flowering reading culture of Soviet times. The purpose of this policy is not fighting declining reading figures, but ...read more

    • Area studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Crisis of reading
    • Cultural politics
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • Field research
    • Globalization
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary canon
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • National identity
    • Post-soviet nostalgia
    • Russia
    • Russian
    • Russian literature

  • 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

  • Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax

    2018

    Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ...read more

    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Bantu corpus linguistics
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Lusoga
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys
    • Uganda

  • Genocide Commemoration in the Rwandan Diaspora

    2018

    This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Translation Studies
    • 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

  • A grammar of Vinza, a Great Lakes Bantu language (JD67) of Tanzania

    2017

    This PhD projects aims at providing a fieldwork-based documentation and description of the grammar of Vinza, a largely undocumented and underscribed Great Lakes Bantu (JD67) of Tanzania, closely related to ...read more

    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Bantu
    • Bantu language documentation and description
    • Bantu linguistics
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Tanzania

  • A diatopic and sociolinguistic study of verbal constructions with possessive pronouns in Spanish varieties

    2017

    In recent years, the study of the use of possessive complements instead of prepositional ones in the adverbial domain, as in encima mío/a vs. encima de mí ‘above me’, has ...read more

    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Linguistics
    • Portuguese
    • Quantitative
    • South America
    • Spanish
    • Surveys
    • 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