Projects

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Zooming in on Climate and Societal Change in Central Italy (1st – 6th century CE)

2021

"The Roman Empire fell victim to the Late Antique Little Ice Age.” This idea is widely accepted among the general public and among scholars outside history or archaeology. However, many ...read more
Nihilism on a Troubled Earth: Friedrich Nietzsche and the Nihilisms of the Anthropocene

2021

This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
English
German
Philosophy
Interconnected texts. A graph-based computational approach to Byzantine paratexts as nodes between textual transmission and cultural and linguistic developments

2021

This project aims to reveal the connections between linguistic patterns and text-historical developments in a corpus of metrical paratexts in Byzantine manuscripts, situating these connections in the historical context of ...read more
Women dressing women: the networks and design poetics of female fashion designers

2021

According to the canon, male designers led fashion during the first phase of haute couture (c.1870-c.1970). This project challenges this narrative by giving centre stage to the category of the ...read more
Norine Couture: The Embodiment of the Belgian Avant-Garde, 1915-1952

2021

The importance of Norine

The Brussels couture house Norine was led from c. 1915 to 1952 by the charismatic couple Honorine Deschryver, dite "Norine" (1887-1977), and Paul-Gustave Van Hecke (1887-1967). ...read more
The musical instrument as a form of three-dimensional writing and score

2021

This research investigates a music composition model that includes creating the musical instruments for which the score is written. In this method a musical instrument is considered, first and foremost, a ...read more
Music
Religion
Theatre and performing arts
Universal historiography and millenarian kingship in late medieval Egypt and Syria: the third reign of al-Nāṣir Muḥammad and the discourse of history

2021

This project investigates a corpus of historiographical texts, predominantely universal chronicles, composed by four historians closely related to the court of the Mamluk sultan al-Nāṣir Muḥammad: Baybars al-Manṣūrī, al-Nuwayrī, Ibn ...read more
Africa
Arabic
History
Language and text analysis
Middle Ages
Middle East
Feminist discursive practices on social networks

2021

Le projet de thèse s'intéresse aux cyberféminismes contemporains et plus particulièrement à l'influence du phénomène #MeToo sur l'évolution des pratiques discursives féministes. Il s'agit d'étudier la richesse et la complexité ...read more
Communication
Gender
Linguistics
Media
'Transcendental Materialism and its Disciplinary Concern' - On the Systematization, History and Practice of a Philosophy after the Žižekian Synthesis

2021

This project aims to systematize the contemporary, increasingly influential movement named ‘Transcendental Materialism’ (‘TM’) by philosopher Adrian Johnston. Associated with, among others, Slavoj Žižek and Alain Badiou, this philosophy eclectically ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Contemporary
German Idealism
Historicism
Interdisciplinarity
Philosophy
Psychoanalysis
Žižek
WiLMa. Writing in a second language with machine translation

2021

Second language (L2) learners often resort to machine translation (MT) to help them during the writing process, which is why it is important to understand how L2 learners use MT ...read more
CAF measures
Dutch
Eye-tracking
Human-computer interaction
Keystroke logging
Language and text analysis
Language assessment
Language technology
Linguistic features
Linguistics
Machine translation
Mixed effects modeling
Quantitative
Screen capture
Second language acquisition
Second language proficiency
Statistical methods
Stimulated recall
Surveys
Swedish
Translation Studies
Writing process
Writing product

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