According to the government website, “Sweden has the first feminist government in the world”. Compared to other European countries, the “woman question,” in Sweden, seems to have been treated in ...read more
Researchers generally situate the origins of Belgian-Dutch blackface as a way to ridicule Afro-diasporic people in the second half of the nineteenth century, when Anglo-American minstrel troupes arrived in the Low ...read more
Slave trades in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Indian Ocean played critical roles in constructing contemporary social and economic inequalities. However, these trades could not have functioned without ...read more
Usage-based theories have stressed the importance of input for language learning both in and outside the classroom. When large amounts of input are available, learning gains can be rapid and ...read more
This project establishes the phonological status of ‘little words’ – clitics and clitic-like elements – in the early Germanic languages by combining insights from theoretical prosodic linguistics and advances in ...read more
This project aims to trace and understand the place of Greek in education and literary culture in Gaul in the Late Roman and Early Medieval periods (ca. A.D. 300 – ...read more
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 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
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
The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2021), involved a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims to ...read more