Projects

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The social life of early Netherlandish painting

2022

This project aims to identify the social networks in which Early Netherlandish painting originated and circulated in c. 1400-1550. Scholars all agree that the frequent commissioning and purchase of paintings ...read more
Children’s periodicals from the Van Passen Collection demanding interaction

2022

This one-year postdoctoral research project investigates how 1930s-1960s children’s periodicals from the Van Passen collection demanded their child readers to interact with their content. The hypothesis is that these periodicals opened to the ...read more
Institutionalized resistance. Milo Rau's NTGent period

2022

"Institutionalized Resistance: Milo Rau’s NTGent Period" will explore Swiss-German director Milo Rau’s work with Nederlands Toneel Gent (NTGent), one of Belgium’s most important cultural institutions, looking at both Rau’s work as a ...read more
Theatre and performing arts
Click it! A multilingual health aid for foreign-speaking parents with young children

2022

The project focuses on sustainable economic valorisation of the multilingual app CLICK IT! and explores the potential for marketing by license in the Flemish care sector. CLICK IT! allows care ...read more
Language and guardianship. A sociolinguistic ethnography of the multilingual resources and strategies used in the guidance trajectory of unaccompanied refugee minors

2022

Language and multilingualism play a critical role in asylum and refugee encounters. Sociolinguistic and interpreting research on multilingual service provision has demonstrated how issues of voice and linguistic-narrative inequality are ...read more
Language contact and linguistic reconstruction. (Pre)historic Bantu-Khoisan interactions in Southern Africa in a historical linguistic perspective

2022

The Southern African linguistic landscape is dominated by Bantu languages, which form Africa’s largest language family and are spoken by the vast majority of Southern Africans. Nonetheless, the first Bantu-speaking communities ...read more
Africa
African languages
Archaeology
History
Linguistics
Course cluster critical perspectives on culture

2022

This project concerns the development of an English-taught course cluster titled Critical Perspectives on Culture. It will bring together existing courses and create new courses:

1. Intellectual History
2. Comparative Study ...read more
Fictions of bio-messiness. Interspecies ambiguity in the experimental forms and spaces of post-1945 novels

2022

Beginning with the premise that literature offers a space for negotiating the kinds of complexity that often attend sensitive socio-cultural issues, this project explores moments of human-animal, or interspecies, ambiguity ...read more
Narrative, Metaphor and Metamorphosis: The Ecological Potential of Contemporary Children's Literature

2022

Situated at the intersection of the study of children’s literature, ecocriticism and cognitive literary criticism, this project revisits the question of the transformational potential of children’s literature in light of ...read more
Albert Lautman: from mathematical philosophy to metaphysics?

2022

The work of the philosopher-mathematician, Albert Lautman (1908-1944), situated within the French historical epistemological landscape of the 20th-century, is characterized by a fascinating an unique interplay between metaphysics, mathematics and ...read more
20th Century
Philosophy

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