The doctoral dissertation 'determinants of interpretability in interpreting exercises' will aim at trying to identify the different determinants that make a text ‘interpretable’ for (student) interpreters. Different parameters that determine ...read more
Lurdes Rodrigues (PhD to be defended in summer 2018)
Background: The primary adolescent sexual and reproductive health (ASRH) challenges in Mozambique are: early marriage, early pregnancy and HIV/AIDS. In 1999, ...read more
The focus of this research is on how objects’ exchanges and transactions – interhuman relations in which these objects were mediators themselves – uncover hidden historical narratives, constituting the social ...read more
This Phd research is situated on the intersection of art and political theory. Yakoub investigates the revolutionary context of Tunisia from a postcolonial perspective. He proposes to question the revolutionary ...read more
Northwestern Europe experienced rapid and intense climate variations during late Quaternary times. These climate variations profoundly affected the environment, and the effects are well reflected in vegetational changes. Past vegetations are reconstructed ...read more
This artistic research aims at studying the process of my interpretation and practice of the 72 Etudes Karnatiques pour piano by the French composer Jacques Charpentier (1933-2017) and at investigating the “mirroring” relation between musical ...read more
This dissertation scrutinizes public legal art in the context of nineteenth-century Belgium. More specifically, it considers how government as well as political, legal, and administrative actors generated and used art ...read more
Daniele Dibello works on a doctoral project concerning the Venetian state formation in the mainland between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. To estimate the city-state experience's weight on the broader ...read more
The thesis addresses the way in which Philostratos, writing in the early third century C.E., fashions a new version of the Trojan War in the central part of his dialogue, ...read more
The research goal of this doctoral dissertation is to unpack the social mechanisms and study the systemic pressures in the orientation process of Newly Arrived Migrant Students (NAMS) in Flemish ...read more