Projects

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Shaping the future by reclaiming the past? A meta-historical analysis of conflicting historical cultures in the Belgian postcolonial debate

2017

In recent years, the Belgian colonial past and its contemporary legacies have increasingly become the subject of a polarized public debate. Based on my on-going BOF research project, the proposed ...read more
Belgium
Contemporary
Field research
History
Singing Communities: Performing Political Song in the Dutch Revolutionary Period (1780-1815)

2017

Early modern songs were broadly considered as effective instruments to strengthen the formation of collective identities. This project aims to better understand how this function was attributed to Dutch political ...read more
History
Literary studies
Music
Theatre and performing arts
Seaports, port cities and their hinterland. The maritime network in the county of Flanders in the late middle ages

2017

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Archaeology
Battlefield
Coast
Comparative
Fish
Geographic and map based
Harbour
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Infrastructure
Institutions
Land-maritime interface
Maritime
maritime cultural landschap
Middle Ages
Port city
Quantitative
River
Ships
Surveys
System
Toll
Transport geography
Urban
Water
Western Europe
History, gender and Gikuyu oral narratives

2017

In 1992 I carried out fieldwork in Central Kenya, collecting Gikuyu oral narratives and discussing their historical relations to gender-identity and morality with the performers. Eventually this resulted in my ...read more
20th Century
Africa
African languages
History
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Literary and intellectual history of European romanticism in China (1894-1937)

2016

This research project investigates the influence of political and literary romanticism on the literary works of early 20th century Chinese authors, in particular of Lu Xun.read more
20th Century
Far East
History
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Oriental languages
Western Europe
China’s maritime commerce and naval activities in Northeast Asia during the Yuan-Ming rupture

2016

This project is an investigation on the maritime history of late imperial China. Underwater archaeology is a relatively new field in the study of East Asia’s history and has repeatedly ...read more
17th Century
18th Century
Area studies
Asia
Far East
History
Language and text analysis
Oriental languages
Modern Chinese Buddhism

2016

This project is an investigation into the development of Chinese Buddhism during the Republican Era (1911-1949), an era in which European modernization entered the Chinese philosophical world.read more
20th Century
Far East
History
Language and text analysis
Oriental languages
Philosophy
Religion
Western Europe
The struggle for urban space in the later medieval city. The case of Bruges (c. 1300 - c. 1580)

2016

Medieval urban space did not evolve in straightforward or linear ways. Depending on socioeconomic,political and symbolic interests of various actors, groups and institutions it wasappropriated, controlled, fragmented, recomposed, reorganized, reinvented ...read more
History
Poor migrants or strange labourers? Rural-urban relations in migration regulation in eighteenth century Flanders

2016

In the course of the eighteenth century, migration and poor relief became subjects of great concern to local, regional and central governments in the Southern Netherlands. Especially controversial was the ...read more
Eighteenth century
History
Migration
Poor relief
Social history
Emerging affinities. Possible futures in performative arts

2016

The latest developments in techno-sciences often find new forms of expression in art practices, situated at the border of art and science, combining insights from biological sciences, notably biotechnology and ...read more
Art
Ethics and morality
History
Philosophy
Theatre and performing arts

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