This is an online interdisciplinary research seminar entitled “WomeninBalkanliterature and culture: subversive readings and identity challenges.”. The lectures are 30 min long, in English and on topics concerning women in Balkan culture and literature in the 20th and/or 21st century. The lectures are followed by ...read more
The Apennine mountain chain in Italy is often described as a crossroads of cultures during the pre-Roman Metal Ages (ca. 3000-300 BC), but archaeologists know little about how, why and ...read more
This project aims to chart and trace the dynamics and impact of the neo-avant-garde in Flemish literary magazines (1949-1975). On the one hand, I employ discourse analysis of critical texts ...read more
As narrators of stories about the nation, news media are central actors in the construction of modern national identities. Despite their relevance for political history and current socio-political debates, media discourses ...read more
EU legislation (notably Directive 2010/64/EU) determines the right to a fair trial, which implies that accused persons who do not understand the language of the criminal proceedings should be provided ...read more
My project is the first large-scale investigation of concessive conditionals (CCs) from the perspective of usage-based CxG. CCs are basically conditionals whose consequent holds under a range of antecedent values. ...read more
Recent scholarship in the history of analytical philosophy has revealed that the conceptions of logic held by Frege, (early) Russell, and (early) Wittgenstein differ in crucial aspects from those that ...read more
The Ghent Altarpiece, a late-medieval painting by the Van Eyck brothers, was repainted in 1550. The current conservation treatment of the altarpiece indicates that extensive representational modifications were made, which ...read more
The project FLANDRIA (Flanders, Norway, and Denmark: Relations and Intertextual Exchanges in the High Middle Ages (ca. 1080-1383)) examines the contact between Flanders, Norway, and Denmark in the High Middle ...read more
"The Roman Empire fell victim to the Late Antique Little Ice Age.” This idea is widely accepted among the general public and among scholars outside history or archaeology. However, many ...read more