What you eat is who you are—or perhaps more accurately, ‘what you eat is who you aspire to be.’ Food consumption is inherently a social act, conveying messages of status, ...read more
Effective writing skills are essential to succeed in professional and academic settings. In Flanders, highly-educated non-native individuals are entering the competitive labour market while struggling with writing in Dutch. From research ...read more
In the history of political thought, Late Antiquity is usually considered the period when the city-state definitively gave way to monarchy and the Bible and Qur’an took the place of ...read more
When we think about climate trauma, the focus often centers on the universal emotional impact of environmental collapse. However, the susceptibility of queer individuals towards it remains underexplored. The proposed ...read more
In the DBBE and EVWRIT projects, a lot of work has been done in the digitization of Late Antique formulaic texts. With this project, we aim to analyze how we ...read more
This project redefines the understanding of sgraffito in Belgium during the Belle Époque (1870–1914) by uncovering the networks, techniques, and collaborations that shaped its creation. Moving beyond the focus on ...read more
Disaster distortion occurs when catastrophic events dominate fictional representations of climate change. This distortion overshadows the slower, systemic forms of environmental violence that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations and makes it more ...read more
This PhD project pursues a comprehensive study of Anyue (Sichuan province, China) stone carvings related to Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang and Song dynasties, using an complex methodology of iconographic analysis and tracing Esoteric ...read more
Gender stereotypes in math and science are well-documented predictors of participation, attitudes, and performance. Gender-fair language has been shown to mitigate such effects. For instance, Vervecken & Hannover (2015) found ...read more