Projects

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Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China. The paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing

2020

This research proposes to investigate the characteristically Chinese concept of fate (ming) in terms of spiritual-psychological agency. Fate has always played a pervasive role in ancient Chinese thought and folk ...read more
FaMInART. Family making in India through adoption or reproductive technology. An interdisciplinary investigation of preference of Indian couples experiencing infertility regarding means of family formation

2020

The goal of this research project is to understand the socio-cultural and regulatory factors influencing preference of married couples in India suffering from infertility or subfertility regarding means of family ...read more
MUTUALIST: Machine translation with User-specific Training and User-specific Adaptation for Literary texts: impact on Individual Style in Translation

2020

In the translation industry, improving machine translation (MT) output by post-editing is commonly used to increase productivity and consistency. However, some research showed that post-editing leads to homogenization and normalization. ...read more
The road to language through gesture

2020

The project explores the representation and role of gestures during the early language development of deaf children, the synergy between actions, gestures and early signs of deaf children and how this ...read more
Motherhood and Lived Religion: Empirical Study on Perceptions and Experiences of Shiite Mothering in Belgium

2020

This project seeks to research the relationship between lived religion, perceptions and experiences of motherhood among Shiite women in Belgium. Under the umbrella notion of motherhood, the research includes women ...read more
Motherhood and Lived Religion: Empirical Study on Perceptions and Experiences of Shiite Mothering in Belgium

2020

This project seeks to research the relationship between lived religion, perceptions and experiences of motherhood among Shiite women in Belgium. Under the umbrella notion of motherhood, the research includes women ...read more
Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages

2020

The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2023), involves a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims ...read more
Art
Greek
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Religion
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Cracking the code to the letterbox: phonological awareness and reading in deaf children

2020

The proposed pioneering project will investigate the relationships between reading, Flemish Sign Language (VGT) sign phonological awareness, fingerspelling, and speechreading. To this day the impact of these phonological skills on the reading development of Flemish ...read more
A battle between arts. Narrativity, literarity and the paradox of representation in late antique literary responses to figurative art

2019

“Ut pictura poesis”! The comparison is older than Horace but the rivalry between different artistic media continues on the modern stage. The texts this project proposes to analyse embody an ...read more
Art
Literary studies
Netherlandish epitaphs as markers of religious change (1520-1585)

2019

In the medieval Low Countries, the donating of devotional objects to churches and founding of liturgical ceremonies were directly linked with remembrance. The memories of ancestors remained alive through the church ...read more

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