The humanitarian tragedy of 2015-16 fuelled anti-European sentiment, allowing populists to successfully reframe the refugee crisis as a crisis of Europe itself. OPPORTUNITIES shows how we can move beyond this ...read more
PhiSci develops a novel framework to understand how philology – the historical study of text and language – once reigned as ‘queen of the sciences.’ This project pioneers a new ...read more
How to promote effective home engagement in learning and language acquisition? And how can we improve existing Flemish practices to better support home engagement?
This project engages with one of the most important enigmas in the history of pre-modern societies, namely the presumed impact of elite constraints on economic development. Capitalizing on a fortuitous ...read more
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness.
One of the universal properties of human language is that it changes over time. Understanding the mechanisms of language change is therefore key ...read more
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages. The same issues are observed ...read more
The project investigates the scope, forms, and consequences of the expansion of human rights discourses among Syrian refugees in coming to terms with human rights crimes committed during the Syrian ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
