Projects

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"To be continued..." Dutch newspaper translations of Russian literature, 1840-1970.

2020

In the 19th and 20th centuries, large amounts of readers were acquainted with foreign literature in their daily paper. Out of reach, gathering dust on library shelves and considered lowbrow ...read more
The queer potential of fragmentation: sexuality and identity in Kathy Acker's work

2020

The visibility of queerness in mainstream culture is increasing, including a wider representation of gender expressions and sexual orientations – meaning that they are now named (such as transgender and non-binary). ...read more
Contemporary
English
Gender
Literary studies
Onset and (De)Grammaticalization of Genitive of Negation in Germanic: A Historical and Typological Analysis

2020

The proposed project aims to determine the origins and diachronic development of “genitive of negation” (GenNeg) in Germanic, and to evaluate its relationship with GenNeg as found in Balto-Slavic and Balto-Finnic languages from ...read more
Staging the Musical Self(ie). An Interdisciplinary Approach to the Subversive Potential of Musical Persona Performance in Times of Social Media

2020

This research project explores how (popular) music artists disclose public identities incorporating elements of their quotidian precarious identity in an era of social media. It departs from the contemporary performance artists Ivo Dimchev ...read more
Working the land, searching the soil. A geophysical framework for diachronic land-use studies

2020

Through an interdisciplinary approach, this project aims to redress current understanding of Neolithic land-use. Hereby, a synergy between archaeology, environmental studies and applied geophysics will provide insight into diachronic human-environment ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
Environmental Studies
Field research
Geoarchaeology
Geographic and map based
Geophysical prospection
Neolithic
past land-use
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Soil Physics
Surveys
Western Europe
Inscribing Religion: Writing, Records and Religious Knowledge in Ancient Greece

2020

This project examines the role of written records in the construction of religious knowledge in ancient Greece. Traditionally, Greek religion has been understood as an action-orientated religion based on oral ...read more
Antiquity
Greek
History
Religion
Southern Europe
Ergonomics of the Artificial Booth Mate

2020

The Ergonomics for the Artificial Booth Mate (EABM) project aims at creating a future-proof CAI tool. Together the University of Ghent and the Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz will ...read more
Connections between semantically or formally similar Dutch auxiliary constructions: the nature of horizontal links and their influence on grammar

2020

This project is aimed at the investigation of horizontal links in two clusters of constructions featuring the auxiliarized Dutch verbs komen ‘to come’ and krijgen ‘to get, receive’. Horizontal links, ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
Study of the early silver metal extraction in a proto-industrial context

2020

This research aims at a critical review of the early silver metal extraction process in a proto-industrial context in order to gain a better insight into the ancient large-scale silver production ...read more
Archaeology
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

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