Projects

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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 transformations of Zhang Taiyan's interpretation of Zuo Zhuan 左传 (Zuo commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals)

2020

The topic of my research project are the transformations we can identify in Zhang Taiyan’s 章太炎 (1869-1936) interpretation of the Zuo zhuan 左傳 (Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals). As is well known, Zhang ...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)
Turning superstition into science. Atmospheric tides science and the transformation of astrology in Enlightenment Continental Europe

2020

The period 1700-1840 witnessed the flowering of a new ‘atmospheric tides’ science. The basic assumption of this science was that the sun and the moon not only generate significant tidal ...read more
Fashionable and Transgressive: Queer Style Effects on Masculinities in Contemporary Indian Fashion

2020

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The Discourse of E-commerce Live-streamers in China and Its Influence on Audiences’ Post-feminist Ideologies

2020

E-commerce Livestreaming

When it comes to video-mediated communication, existent research primarily focuses on camgirls (Senft, 2008) and most lately, gaming livestreaming of people's daily life and games (Hamilton, Garretson ...read more
Communication
Gender
Linguistics
Media
Newly arrived migrants in secondary schools: charting linguistic expectations and didactic practices, exploring new possibilities.

2020

The aim of this project is to compare the linguistic reality of Dutch immersion classes for newly arrived migrants to the linguistic reality of Dutch-medium instruction in secondary education. Additionally, ...read more
Dutch
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
A mixed-method investigation of the potential of aikido, a Japanese martial art, as a means to improve intercultural encounters and communication

2019

In our fast-changing world that is ever-more characterised by global flows, systems and networks, intercultural communication is a dynamic field. The ubiquity of cultural and linguistic contact in a ‘flat’ ...read more
Communication
Interculturalism
Leopard men in Congo. Myths and realities

2019

Au Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, aujourd’hui Africamuseum à Tervuren en Belgique qui se réorganise et redéfinie sa mission se trouve une sculpture « infamante » présentant un anioto, un ...read more

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