Notwithstanding that medieval gender history focusing on women’s engagement with power has flourished as an academic field since the 1980s, it still shows important lacunas in the assessment of aristocratic women’s diplomatic roles ...read more
Employees are increasingly using social media to share information about their organization with a large network. On the one hand, they can take on the role of brand ambassadors, sharing ...read more
The English writer, art- and literature critic Walter Horatio Pater (1839 -1894) is considered as very influential in the aesthetic movement. Thanks to his aesthetics, his writings also live on ...read more
According to the canon, male designers led fashion during the first phase of haute couture (c.1870-c.1970). This project challenges this narrative by giving centre stage to the category of the ...read more
The Brussels couture house Norine was led from c. 1915 to 1952 by the charismatic couple Honorine Deschryver, dite "Norine" (1887-1977), and Paul-Gustave Van Hecke (1887-1967). Although Norine is all ...read more
The goal of the LoCKe project is to analyze and compare methodologies for transferring supervision across languages, without (or with minimal) parallel data. The primary focus is on the tasks ...read more
Despite the major advancements in the domain of sentiment analysis during the past few decades, automatically modelling implicit sentiment still remains a major hurdle in the field. While sentiment analysis ...read more
While it seems obvious that mass media play a role in nation-building, how they do so has hardly been studied. This is also true for Flanders, a federal region that ...read more
My project is the first large-scale investigation of concessive conditionals (CCs) from the perspective of usage-based CxG. CCs are basically conditionals whose consequent holds under a range of antecedent values. ...read more
This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more