Throughout the period of 1890 to 1910, the adult male population of the city and district of Brussels experienced excess mortality. The mortality level of this group was much higher ...read more
This project studies early modern urban discourses on sodomy in the Southern Netherlands. Sodomy was considered as a crime against nature whose origins could be traced to the biblical cities ...read more
This PhD research is a comparative historical anthropology of cross-cultural interaction and local exchange-relations in late 18th-century China (Guangzhou), Japan (Dejima) and India (Bengal & Ganges-delta region).In this research, cross-cultural ...read more
This doctoral research project focuses on the judicial use of history. It is of an interdisciplinary nature considering legal as well as historical issues, although the emphasis lies on the ...read more
The aim of this PhD project is to make a grammatical description of Kibinji, an undocumented, undescribed and endangered Bantu language spoken in the Western Kasai Province of the Democratic Republic ...read more
The project aims to contribute to the changing perspective on the history of Christian ethics by investigating the way in which economic, political and social developments influenced vernacular renditions of ...read more
The project aims at comparing the syntax of Farasiot and Cappadocian, two Asia Minor Greek languages. More specifically, adopting the cartographic approach to generative syntax, I will explore the composition of the ...read more
The research aims to examine ‘patriotic’ resistance and ‘treason’ during the Great War in Belgium from a social perspective. The 1914-1918 German occupation of Belgium forms a unique case study ...read more