From the perspective of Intelligence Studies, Studies in Belgian Intelligence uses an interdisciplinary methodology to approach both past and present of Belgian intelligence, to identify the underlying factors that are ...read more
The 9/11-attacks and the war on terror have altered the perception of Islam in the West. Particularly those countries once associated with the rich history of Mesopotamia and Persia have become subject to an antagonizing discourse (cf. Axis of ...read more
This project will offer the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the use of speech acts, ritual acts and spatial arrangements in the construction of episcopal authority in the ‘long ...read more
In October 2013, I started a sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of pupils’ speech practices in Flanders (Belgium). From November 2013 until December 2014, I immersed myself into the daily school life of ...read more
According to historical anthropometry, average height is one of the best measures to study well-being of a society. Since height is mainly an indicator of social and economic conditions during ...read more
This PhD research aims at a systematic and corpus-driven study in Luganda of how the modal core concepts of possibility and necessity are expressed, along with closely related categories, such as ...read more
This interuniversity research project of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and Ghent University is dedicated to elite formation in sixteenth‐century Ghent. It aspires to understand how urban elites were shaped and ...read more