In the mid-20th century, authors increasingly took to the new sonic medium of radio to expand their audience, experiment with new techniques, and express their cultural identity. If modernist scholars ...read more
This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more
Many languages have a basic V2 word order. This means that the verb linearly takes the second position in declarative main clauses, for instance in Standard Dutch (SD, 1).
After the introduction of Carl Hempel’s Covering Law model in 1948, scientific explanation became a central topic of philosophical attention in early anglophone philosophy of science in the 1950s and ...read more
Funded by the FNRS (PDR T.0091.16, 2016-2020) and the ULB/Brussels-Wallonia Federation (Action de recherche concertée, 2016-2019), this project sets out to describe and understand how teachers reconcile the irreconcilable: it ...read more
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Latin gradually lost its dominant position as a literary language in Europe. The normativity of the Classics was increasingly questioned in the literary field, ...read more
Collective decisions are pervasive in every aspect of our society. As shown by Brexit and other recent episodes in European national politics, the way we shape our collective decisions can ...read more
From the late 1940s, cities in Spain began to grow rapidly. The mass migration of rural inhabitants resulted in the emergence of slums and shantytowns in the outskirts of the ...read more
The project "Networks of resistance: Ágora Literaty Circle in the Spanish Post-War (1955-1973)" deals with an anti-Fascist Spanish literary circle and attempts to identify the international network of writers with ...read more
This project will re-evaluate intra-religious mobility – understood as the phenomenon of transitioning from one Christian religious order to another – in a period (1050-1230) when the growing variety of ...read more