Projects

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Argument marking in the Amazonian languages of the Guaporé-Mamoré region

2023

Grammatical relations are central to the scientific study of languages, and yet the indigenous languages spoken in Amazonia often challenge conventional approaches to the notion of grammatical subject and object. ...read more
For a more humane world. Sculpture and technology in postwar Belgium

2023

The relation between postwar art and technology is widely considered in terms of progress, optimism, and prosperity. This project sets forth to re-examine postwar art and technology in subtler and ...read more
20th Century
Art
Belgium
Comparative
Dutch
English
Field research
French
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Bilingual education Dutch - Flemish sign language

2023

This project includes scientific research into the effectiveness of bilingual inclusive education for VGT-signing children and its practical implementation, with the aim of supporting a qualitative organizational form in Flanders. ...read more
The heiress. Women, property and economics, 1780-1900

2023

The heiress is an overlooked though recurring and compelling figure in a wide range of novels by British authors between 1780 and 1900. By focusing on the heiress, this project ...read more
18th Century
19th Century
English
Literary studies
Western Europe
In looking back, becoming modern. Shifting discourses on Latin renaissance in the French and Italian literary fields, 1870-1915

2023

When we think about the Renaissance, we mainly remember the enticing legacy of its artworks. Yet, the myth of Renaissance as a historical period of ‘rebirth’ has also assumed symbolic ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Comparative
Cosmopolitanism
European Identity
French
History
Italian
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Nationalism
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Towards a socio-cognitive account of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting

2023

The aim of the project is to contribute to a novel model of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting (DI) by offering an analysis in terms of ‘cognition for interaction’ (Levinson 2015). ...read more
Communication
Language technology
Linguistics
Translation Studies
Stylometry for aurality in medieval Anglo-Latin hagiography (900–1150). Performance, community and musicality

2023

This project applies the computational analysis of style to aural features of medieval Anglo-Latin hagiography (900-1150). Although hagiographies possessed a sermonic quality, had a didactic function and were ceremonially recited, the reading ...read more
History
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Latin
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Religion
Western Europe
Support systems. The hidden labour behind art making (1880-1920)

2023

This project reveals, for the first time, relationships which enabled and sustained artists’ work and careers in late-nineteenth-century and early-twentieth-century Belgium. Structured around three categories of people, it takes a ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Art
Belgium
Gender
Reader’s Digest. The gastrointestinal in popular fiction, 1870s-1930s

2023

While the term 'microbiome' wasn't popularised until the mid-late twentieth century, the discovery of gut microflora can be traced back to the nineteenth century. By the Fin de Siècle, medical ...read more
19th Century
19th century
20th Century
20th century literature
English
English history
English literature
Health and Medical Humanities
Literary studies
CarNHum. Neanderthals, early anatomically modern humans and carnivores. Deciphering their interactions through proteomics, paleogenetics and radiocarbon dating

2023

CarNHum project is designed to investigate the interactions of Neanderthals, early anatomically modern humans and carnivores through proteomics, paleogenetics and radiocarbon dating. Firstly, through the identification of bone assemblages with ...read more
Archaeology

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