This PhD project pursues a comprehensive study of Anyue (Sichuan province, China) stone carvings related to Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang and Song dynasties, using an complex methodology of iconographic analysis and tracing Esoteric ...read more
Gender stereotypes in math and science are well-documented predictors of participation, attitudes, and performance. Gender-fair language has been shown to mitigate such effects. For instance, Vervecken & Hannover (2015) found ...read more
The doctoral research consists of an empirical and normative analysis of two specific forms of science communication practices regarding evolving and uncertain scientific topics. The first one is a public ...read more
Ancient Greek distinguishes between imperfective and perfective aspect in all moods of the verb, including the imperative mood. Although this is an rare feature typologically, we still only have a ...read more
This research project investigates the early development and circulation of food safety regulations in the medieval Low Countries, focusing on the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. It combines a comparative analysis of ...read more
The use of gender-fair language can lead to a more inclusive society, yet machine translation (MT) systems frequently reproduce and amplify gender bias. Some of this bias is due to ...read more
Despite growing societal awareness of diversity and inclusion in the workplace, the impact of linguistic factors in selection procedures remains underresearched, especially in the Dutch-speaking context. This research project focuses ...read more
Drawing on News Translation Studies, this project focuses on the understudied translational and human factors in news production in modern-day Bulgaria, a country ideologically situated between East and West. Examining ...read more
Chiquitano/Bésɨro and Guarayo are two communities in Bolivia that share a history of forced migrations and, to this day, face linguistic and cultural erasure. However, they adopted opposite survival strategies: ...read more
Since 1945, Belgium has participated in a long series of military operations abroad, including peacekeeping and peace-enforcing missions under the auspices of the UN or NATO, but also bilateral or ...read more