Phenomenological research on experiences of the ageing bodies in different Chinese societies. This also includes alternative discourses of aging that go beyond the decline narrative and successful aging, and ways to ...read more
The use of English as the Medium of Instruction (EMI) in higher education is on the rise both globally and within Flanders, requiring lecturers to impart and students to construe ...read more
This project develops and evaluates machine-learning models for the automated processing of historical Greek and Latin texts. Using transformer-based architectures and existing annotated datasets, the project focuses on tasks such ...read more
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
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
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
Even in the past, broad social categories like status played a crucial role in language variation and change. However, language use is also linked to the existence of more locally ...read more
Historic feminists have become lightning rods for heated contemporary debates around questions of gender-identity, intersectionality, and consent. Figures from the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s are ...read more
This project seeks to re-evaluate the epistemological views expressed in Wittgenstein's late work 'On Certainty'. It seeks to critically examine the existing interpretations of this work, as they have been ...read more