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Forged identity. The role of hoaxes and pseudotranslations in European romanticism

2022

Pseudotranslations are an interesting occurrence within literature and represent a particular problem for literary and translation studies- as original works that present themselves as, and thus perform as, translations, they ...read more
19th Century
Comparative
English
French
German
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Translation Studies
Western Europe
Blackface burlesques. Racialized subjection in popular performance culture of the Low Countries, 1770-1840

2021

Researchers generally situate the origins of Belgian-Dutch blackface as a way to ridicule Afro-diasporic people in the second half of the nineteenth century, when Anglo-American minstrel troupes arrived in the Low ...read more
18th Century
19th Century
Art
Dutch
History
Literary studies
Theatre and performing arts
Western Europe
Gender and monsters in Oromo oral narratives

2021

This project will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Contemporary
Field research
Gender
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Ogres
Oromo
Non-resumptive left dislocation in French Flemish

2021

Left dislocation (LD) patterns consist of a topic and a comment which says something about the topic. The comment usually contains a resumptive element ('they' in (1), referring to 'the ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Comparative
Contemporary
Dialect syntax
Dutch
Field research
French
French Flemish
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Microvariation
Quantitative
Southern Dutch dialects
Surveys
Western Europe
The Aeolodoric theory. A paradigm for Ancient Greek linguistic appraoches

2021

My research examines linguistic awareness in the Greek world by focusing on ancient linguistic approaches that still inform the Modern Greek debate on the definition of a national language. The ...read more
19th Century
Antiquity
Comparative
Greek
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Linguistics
Literary studies
Quantitative
Nihilism on a troubled earth. Friedrich Nietzsche and the nihilisms of the anthropocene

2021

This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
English
German
Philosophy
Transcendental materialism and its disciplinary concern. On the systematization, history and practice of a philosophy after the Žižekian synthesis

2021

This project aims to systematize the contemporary, increasingly influential movement named ‘Transcendental Materialism’ (‘TM’) by philosopher Adrian Johnston. Associated with, among others, Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, this philosophy eclectically ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
German Idealism
Historicism
Interdisciplinarity
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Žižek
MEMOR. A database and ethical framework for human skeletons from archaeological contexts in Flanders

2020
The aim of MEMOR is to:

Make an open access inventory of the human remains from archaeological research in Flanders using various paramaters to give archaeologists, physical anthropologists and
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15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Contemporary
Ethics and morality
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Quantitative
Surveys
ArcheOs. Research laboratory for biological anthropology

2020

The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Africa
Anthropology
Antiquity
Archaeology
Belgium
Central Europe
Comparative
Contemporary
Field research
History
Isotopes
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
osteoarchaeology
Osteology
Prehistory (Stone Age)
proteomics
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Quantitative
Western Europe
Connections between semantically or formally similar Dutch auxiliary constructions. The nature of horizontal links and their influence on grammar

2020

This project is aimed at the investigation of horizontal links in two clusters of constructions featuring the auxiliarized Dutch verbs komen ‘to come’ and krijgen ‘to get, receive’. Horizontal links, ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative

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