In 1992 I carried out fieldwork in Central Kenya, collecting Gikuyu oral narratives and discussing their historical relations to gender-identity and morality with the performers. Eventually this resulted in my ...read more
Between 1996 and 2002 I was involved in a postdoctoral project on Angola, studying the life histories of refugees living in Namibia as they recounted how political legitimacy had been ...read more
The principal aim of this research project is to compare the predominant concepts of the Ottoman and Burgundian political discourse in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Even though reciprocal ...read more
This project wants to investigate the complex relations between literary multilingualism and the construction of identity in contemporary autobiographical texts (1980-2015) written by authors connected to the Southern Cone (Argentina ...read more
This short-term project evaluates Zanzu.be, the multilingual website (14 languages) of Sensoa vzw, the Flemish expertise center for sexual health. The website offers comprehensive basic information for new entrants, asylum ...read more
This project explores how the medical body was imagined in late 18th- and early 19th-century Japanese illustrated fiction and woodblock prints through the individual voices of urban writers and artists ...read more
Japanese stage arts such as kabuki or bunraku have attracted attention from both Japanese and Western scholars - both stage arts are hereditary: fathers teach the art to their sons before these ...read more
My current research involves an ethnographic analysis of women's agency (in Dutch 'vrouwenkracht') in a broad arena of spirituality practices through to coaching and personal growth, in Belgium, the Netherlands, ...read more