More than 200 years after the establishment of philosophical anthropology as a discipline of knowledge, its epistemological status is still vague and ambiguous. This project aspires a methodology and conceptual ...read more
The research project aims to shed a new light on the relations between Europe and the Muslim world by exploring the historical relations between the city-state of Venice & Burgundy ...read more
Between 1900 and 1950 German and French innovatory dramatists dealt with the socio-historical emergence of masses by adapting ancient drama and mystery cults in theatre. In their plays they experimented ...read more
The proposed research seeks to provide an analysis of how parents reproduce and challenge in everyday practice and discourse the norms and moralities of monogamy and the nuclear family. ...read more
In 2016-2018, we conducted the first policy-oriented research into intersex / Differences of Sex Development (DSD) in Flanders and Belgium, which consisted of two parts.
A Web-Based Tool for Shared Decision Making in DSD. The birth of a child with DSD is anxiety-provoking. Stressors associated with ascertaining a DSD include weathering drawn-out diagnostic testing periods, ...read more
This project studies the relation between early-nineteenth-century British periodicals and the rise of the credit economy. It argues that leading contemporaneous periodicals fostered a cultural acceptance of the new economic ...read more
My investigation combines Classical Philology and historical linguistics. In several Indo-European languages, such as Greek, Armenian, Phrygian, Sanskrit and Iranian, the past tense form was built not only by using ...read more
After the conquest of Alexander the Great in the fourth century BCE, Greek becomes the main written language in Egypt until the seventh century CE. Many of the changes between Classical ...read more
This project will provide the first comparative study of how conservative British novelists, from Walter Scott to Ford Madox Ford, participated in political debates about four major issues of ...read more