Projects

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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
Cross-channel stylistic exchanges. A stylometric approach to the impact of mobility and multilingualism on medieval Latin literature, 1000–1150

2020

This project will apply stylometry, the computational analysis of style, to investigate how cross-channel mobility and multilingualism impacted Latin literary style in 1000–1150. Due to the many invasions and colonization ...read more
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe
A phone call with the dead. Necrodialogues in 20th-century literature and other media

2020

The necrodialogue is an anthropological need that finds expression in ritualistic and artistic representations. Inherent to this dialogue is the use of personal intermediaries and technical media to establish contact. We know that ...read more
Calliope's daughters. Women, epic, and occasional poetry in the early modern Ibero-American world, 1556-1756

2020

Epic poetry has traditionally been considered a male genre, written by and for men. This project seeks to contest this view by drawing attention to a corpus of epic poetry ...read more
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 formation. ...read more
The subject in the Amazon

2020

The traditional concept of “subject” is central to the study of all languages. However, indigenous languages spoken in the Amazon often challenge this notion. The research project will investigate various ...read more
Linguistics
South America
Revolt! On a refusal to sing—thinking resistance through music, waste and complicity

2020

The way we respond to the suffering of others, and articulate our moral positions, depends on our framing of established perceptible reality. As the contemporary art world is situated and ...read more
PaPiOM. Patterns in pitch organization in music

2020

Music is present in every culture in the world. We as a species seem to have an urge to make music. While the diversity of music cultures around the world ...read more
Cross-cultural musicology
Music
Economic inequality on the eve of the late medieval crisis. Two regions compared, Tuscany and Northern France, c.1295-c.1320

2020

Since the Great Recession of 2007, research on the causes of economic inequality has been at the centre of both societal and academic debates, also among historians. Whereas most scholars ...read more
Black Death
Comparative
Crisis of Late Middle Ages
Economic Inequality
French
History
Italian
Latin
Middle Ages
Quantitative
Western Europe
NonSurvivors. Childhood diet, disease, and death as telltale signs of the physical and social environment in post-medieval Aalst

2020

This project assesses the physical stress children in post-medieval Aalst faced, in relation to socio-economic status and living conditions. Historical sources show a low child survivor rate in poor families in this ...read more
Archaeology

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