INEAC, the government-funded agricultural research institute of the Belgian Congo, employed a significant number of European researchers and African personnel for several decades, from the 1920s until the 1960s. Its ...read more
The status of the present-day Belgian notariat is currently being questioned by politicians, and its prominent social position in the recording and authentication of private transactions is at stake. This ...read more
This research project aims to enhance the traditional methodologies of textual analysis by leveraging the potential of digital methodologies to study 210 unpublished cuneiform tablets from the Ur III period ...read more
The history of kubandwa – a complex of therapeutic associations in Great Lakes Africa – since 1500 is intimately linked to gendered social-economic innovation and configurations of (supra)lineage authority. An ...read more
In this project, we explore the ways in which emotions and interpersonal interactions impact foreign language students’ learning experiences in both in-person and online English classes.
Following the peak of the #MeToo movement, 2018 saw a remarkable surge in popular publications on the topic of women’s anger. These publications might reflect a shift in the popular ...read more
In my FWO funded research project '"Ni Una Menos": Gender violence through the lens of the contemporary Latin American chronicle' (2021-2025) supervised by prof. Ilse Logie, I study how Argentinian and ...read more
Modern Western psychology was first introduced to China in the 1880s. The circulation of psychology in the late Qing dynasty intertwined with religion, educational reform, and historiography, set the stage ...read more
The present study is concerned with adverbial clauses called concessive conditionals from a functional-typological perspective. Based on a convenience sample of ca. 100 language, it investigates the coding strategies used ...read more
The new political situation after 2013 has been a serious backlash for many Egyptian artists, especially those who supported the 2011 uprising or have addressed the event through their artistic ...read more