This research seeks to gain a better historical understanding of the coexistence of communal land systems with processes of global land commodification through which land access and control is standardized ...read more
Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
The project focuses on the postwar literary radio play in the Low Countries (Flanders and the Netherlands), a clearly defined region where the literary radio play has constantly been kept ...read more
The Khoisan of Southern Africa have faced violent dispossession and assimilation alongside several others into the racial group ‘coloured’ during colonialism and apartheid. Many today no longer consider the Khoisan ...read more
This project attempts to offer a philosophical critique of vitalism from the standpoints of both the history of science and the logic of science (the logic of science endorses logical ...read more
My research deals with the relation between the languages Kikongo and Lingala and the way the opposition between them has been activated throughout the history of the Congolese capital (1950s-present ...read more
In the four decades before the First World War, the world increasingly globalized. A highly connected economy integrated distant parts of the world into one global market. Belgium, a young ...read more
This research brings for the first time a critical historical analysis of one of the largest national military museums in the world, the Royal Military Museum in Brussels. With a ...read more
The research deals with the institutional and aesthetic processes of transformation of East German theatre from the collapse of socialism in 1989 to the turn of the millennium. 1989 posed ...read more
The project focuses on contact-related grammatical pattern changes in Belgian and NetherlandicDutch during two different stages in their recent history: (i) 19th century Belgian Dutch, which washeavily exposed to French, ...read more