After Vladimir Putin’s re-election to the presidency in 2012, the ideological opacity of the previous two decades gives way to a putinist configuration of conservative communitarianism and populism. The translation ...read more
Across all Abrahamic religions, it has been found that the more religious people are, the more children they have. However, whereas political demographers such as Eric Kaufman have shown that ...read more
In modern languages, polite formulaic phrases often trace back to performative verbs (e.g. performative verbs of asking such as parakaló in Modern Greek, bitte in German or prego in Italian). ...read more
In this project we seek to study human/non-human interaction in the case of Oromo fables told during oral performance, focusing in particular on the interactions between different creatures, entities and forces, how ...read more
Despite Dutch's dominant status in Suriname, being the official language of administration since 1876 and the reported primary household language of two thirds of the population (according to the 2012 ...read more
Edger Rutatola designed and obtained a South Initiative on the Internet of Things (SI-VLIRUOS) and related International Training Program (ITP-VLIRUOS) and eventually a four year TEAM project within VLIRUOS to conduct ...read more
Sabbatical stay: The VLIRUOS-EI completed at University of Guyana in 2013 and supervised by Koen Abts, Koen Stroeken en Patrick Vander Weyden, which resulted in the PhD of Troy Thomas, provided a database of ongoing ...read more
Research on the early development of urban communities in Western Europe has long been determined by a political and institutional approach of the liberties, laws and customs these communities were ...read more
This project contributes to a better understanding of the grammar underlying Spanish-English(-Kriol) codeswitching (CS). Its objective is threefold. First, at an empirical level, it provides insight into the way the conflict ...read more
This project uses contemporary art as a lens to write the history of Antwerp, a port city with an arthistorical reputation, between 1980 and 2000. The study examines a corpus ...read more