Projects

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Cross-cultural conceptions of the self. South Asia, Africa, and East Asia

2022

My role as co-investigator in the project “Cross-Cultural Conceptions of the Self: South Asia, Africa and East Asia” at Ghent University as part of the small project grants awarded by ...read more
Africa
Asia
Comparative
Philosophy
Religion
Teaching Greek in eleventh-century Byzantium. Schedography and its methods

2022

Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
Asia
Eastern Europe
Greek
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Quantitative
Southern Europe
Pragmatic expletive pronouns in the dialects of southern Italy. An experimental-syntactic approach

2022

Despite their status as null subject languages, several southern Italian dialects feature expletive subject pronouns. These do not serve as a ‘dummy subject pronoun’ like typical expletives, but rather have ...read more
Facing up to the dictatorial past. Cultural memory and the responsibility for fascism in post-1990 Italian literature

2022

Memory scholars have been criticizing the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the twentieth century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more
Science fiction and seriousness. How concerns with seriousness proliferate through and impact on the reading, writing and discussion of the genre

2022

Since its nascency in the American pulp magazines of the 1920s, science fiction (SF) has had a particular relationship with the concept of seriousness. Characterised as juvenile in both its ...read more
Literary studies
When the king does philosophy. The Vedantic writings of Jasvant Singh of Mārvāḍ (1626–1678)

2022

This project aims at shedding light on the intellectual profile of King Jasvant Singh of Marvar (1626–1678), in today’s Rajasthan. My hypothesis is that Jasvant Singh – a prominent political ...read more
Fertility frontiers. A global history of transnational reproduction in Belgium from cross-feminist perspective

2022

The global demise in intercountry adoption procedures is opening up newer, technologically advanced fertility frontiers, including transnational egg donation and surrogacy, through which infertile couples are building the biogenetic families ...read more
The social life of early Netherlandish painting

2022

This project aims to identify the social networks in which Early Netherlandish painting originated and circulated in c. 1400-1550. Scholars all agree that the frequent commissioning and purchase of paintings ...read more
Institutionalized resistance. Milo Rau's NTGent period

2022

"Institutionalized Resistance: Milo Rau’s NTGent Period" will explore Swiss-German director Milo Rau’s work with Nederlands Toneel Gent (NTGent), one of Belgium’s most important cultural institutions, looking at both Rau’s work as a ...read more
Theatre and performing arts
Fictions of bio-messiness. Interspecies ambiguity in the experimental forms and spaces of post-1945 novels

2022

Beginning with the premise that literature offers a space for negotiating the kinds of complexity that often attend sensitive socio-cultural issues, this project explores moments of human-animal, or interspecies, ambiguity ...read more

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