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Urban bourgeois interiors as playgrounds for historically inspired styles, in search of national identity (Belgium, 1850-1913)

2021

This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in
Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – ...read more
Freising and the Slavs under bishop Abraham. A text-based approach to mission and pastoral care among the Carantanians in the 10th century

2021

The Carantanians have been the first Slavic people to be converted to Christendom. Their conversion dates to the 8th century, one hundred years before the advent of Cyrillus and Methodius. ...read more
Assessing the Impact of Machine Translation on L2 Learners' Writing Process and Language Learning

2021

Second language (L2) learners often resort to machine translation (MT) to help them during the writing process. As writing is a crucial element of language learning, it is important to ...read more
Dutch
Eye-tracking
German
Keystroke logging
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Machine translation
Quantitative
Second language acquisition
Stimulated recall
Surveys
Swedish
Translation Studies
Writing
English-medium instruction and linguistic nationalism. Tensions between the promotion of the local language and university internationalisation

2020

In this research project, we will explore the phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) at universities in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and how the place of the local language in ...read more
The notion of Wu in seventeenth-century China

2020

In the Anglophone world, the Chinese character wu 物 is most often straightforwardly translated as “thing”. However, in the everyday Chinese language, wu is a highly distinctive word and concept. In Chinese, people/persons/human beings are ...read more
Spatial organization, fragmentation and development of city-states in central Crete (Late Minoan II – Hellenistic period)

2020

In the last decade, Cretan archaeology made significant advancement in the study of the birth of City-States (the Greek poleis) that follows the decline of Bronze Age civilizations. After large ...read more
Antiquity
Archaeology
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Non scholae sed vitae? An empirical study on the cognitive transfer effects of studying classical languages in Flemish secondary education

2020

Do smart pupils study classical languages (CLs), or does studying CLs make pupils smart? Anglo-Saxon research suggests that Latin pupils surpass their Latin-less peers in L1 ability c.q. English, and ...read more
The neolithic people of Belgium. A bioanthropological perspective on migration, health and diet of Belgium's first farmers

2020

The PhD project involves a study of the dental and skeletal remains from all Neolithic sites in Belgium to answer the following questions. Who were the Neolithic people of Belgium ...read more
Fury. A philosophical analysis of the productive value of women's anger

2020

Following the peak of the #MeToo movement, 2018 saw a remarkable surge in popular publications on the topic of women’s anger. These publications might reflect a shift in the popular ...read more
Narrating Sun Yat-sen. Explaining the People’s Republic of China and Republic of China’s (Taiwan) developments concerning leninism, christianity, and democracy

2020

This research strives to overcome scientific knowledge gaps related to Sun Yat-sen’s life, as well as the gaps surrounding the concepts that are crucial in understanding his persona: Leninism, Christianity, ...read more
Area studies
History
Philosophy
Religion

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