Today’s ecological crisis prompts us to rethink our attitude towards physical and natural realities that have traditionally been seen as opposed to human subjectivity and agency. What emerges from this ...read more
This joint research project deals with the negotiation of colonial hygiene by “expert” actors in (transnational) networks with a focus on the Belgian context between the first Leopoldian expeditions in ...read more
While academics in the last two decades deconstructed several, persistent myths surrounding the national history of WWII in Belgium, its legacy endures as a divisive factor between the main political ...read more
We examine how the French- and Dutch-speaking TV audiences are introduced to the Flemish and French communities and their languages, through daily news broadcasts. Our research looks at how the ...read more
This network funding will increase opportunities for scholarly engagement in a number of ways. Postdoctoral fellows will be employed to increase the offerings of courses related to Buddhism, and eminent ...read more
Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
At its very core Platonic philosophy is faced with a seemingly insurmountable difficulty: the transition from causes that are always of necessity immaterial to material effects. How can immaterial principles ...read more
The aim of the project is to develop an account of explanation in engineering science. In contrast to explanation in the physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences, very little ...read more
In the context of increasing international education and study abroad at both European and international level, this project aims to explore the nature, experiences, benefits and limitations of study and ...read more
The research programme is presented by a consortium of 11 linguists, informaticians, digital humanities experts and geographers. It aims at the aggregation and standardization of three comprehensive dialect lexicographic databases, ...read more