This project will reorient the study of Italian Holocaust-related literary production by defining and investigating a new category of it, consisting of texts by Jewish authors that bear witness to ...read more
When we think about the Renaissance, we mainly remember the enticing legacy of its artworks. Yet, the myth of Renaissance as a historical period of ‘rebirth’ has also assumed symbolic ...read more
Most philosophical approaches to the political value of art only consider art in general, as an abstract concept. New and experimental art, of which the character and purpose are ...read more
The project will investigate the phenomenon of transnationalism in the late 1960s and 1970s by focusing on the cultural exchange between Argentina and Belgium and the subsequent cross-border activities of ...read more
While the term 'microbiome' wasn't popularised until the mid-late twentieth century, the discovery of gut microflora can be traced back to the nineteenth century. By the Fin de Siècle, medical ...read more
This project analyzes the interactions between religion and cultural heritage in twentieth century Japan as a venue to investigate the legacy of imperialism in the construction of modern ideas and ...read more
This project reveals, for the first time, relationships which enabled and sustained artists’ work and careers in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Belgium. Structured around three categories of people, it takes a ...read more
"Classifying Chikunda: Retentions and innovations in the morphology and syntax of Zambezi Valley Bantu languages" is Aron Zahran’s PhD project. His research explores the historical-linguistic components of the ...read more
The OriKunda project (PI Rozenn Guérois) aims at revising the history of the Chikunda people and language from the origins to the present day, through historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, ...read more
"Moving with Architecture" examines an ecology of architecture and choreography by approaching their relationality in a horizontal way. The project takes the metaphor of weaving to explore how this ecology ...read more