Whereas toleration and intolerance are often studied for more recent periods of history, there is little scholarship on toleration in Classical Antiquity. This is due to the widespread assumption that ...read more
Displays of Desire aims to gain insight into how early modern Dutch comedies represent the idea of consumption and desire through theatrical imagination. Doing so, the project not only highlights ...read more
Past vegetation evolution is generally studied using pollen analyses from lake sediments or peat bogs. Such sedimentary archives dating to the middle and late Holocene period are largely missing in ...read more
What do we know about Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976)? Perusing the publications dedicated to the artist, including more than twenty separate museum monographs, the answer would seem to be both a ...read more
This project explores the potential for sustainable economic valorization of a multilingual tool designed to improve communication in healthcare settings. Key features include translations provided by native speakers, spoken translations ...read more
Inspired by the paradigmatic shifts of both transnational and global history, historians have, in recent years, begun to question the methodological nationalism and the exceptionalist discourses pervading the history of ...read more
This project proposes to study city views from Ghent, created between c. 1500 and c. 1900, to trace long-term developments in the representation of the urban built environment. The case ...read more
In this ongoing publication project, I am dealing with the authors of colloquial poetry that arose in the course of the Egyptian revolution in 2011. It has evolved on the ...read more
Located at the intersection of cultural history and history of science, this project studies the cultural embedment of meteorology (that is, approaches to the prediction of weather and the explanation ...read more
Research on the early development of urban communities in Western Europe has long been determined by a political and institutional approach of the liberties, laws and customs these communities were ...read more