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Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China. The paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing

2020

This research proposes to investigate the characteristically Chinese concept of fate (ming) in terms of spiritual-psychological agency. Fate has always played a pervasive role in ancient Chinese thought and folk religion. However, fate ...read more
The transformations of Zhang Taiyan's interpretation of Zuo Zhuan 左传. Zuo commentary on the spring and autumn annals

2020

The topic of my research project are the transformations we can identify in Zhang Taiyan’s 章太炎 (1869-1936) interpretation of the Zuo zhuan 左傳 (Zuo Commentary on the Spring and Autumn Annals). As is well known, Zhang ...read more
English-medium instruction and linguistic nationalism. Tensions between the promotion of the local language and university internationalisation

2020

In this research project, we will explore the phenomenon of English-medium instruction (EMI) at universities in Belgium, the Netherlands and France, and how the place of the local language in ...read more
FaMInART. Family making in India through adoption or reproductive technology. An interdisciplinary investigation of preference of Indian couples experiencing infertility regarding means of family formation

2020

The goal of this research project is to understand the socio-cultural and regulatory factors influencing preference of married couples in India suffering from infertility or subfertility regarding means of family ...read more
The notion of Wu in seventeenth-century China

2020

In the Anglophone world, the Chinese character wu 物 is most often straightforwardly translated as “thing”. However, in the everyday Chinese language, wu is a highly distinctive word and concept. In Chinese, people/persons/human beings are ...read more
Is architecture art? A history of categories, concepts and recent practices

2020

The recurring question of whether architecture is an art does not allow for a simple answer. The posing of it, however, usefully exposes many of the ways in which the ...read more
KB45. Art in Belgium since 1945

2020

The research group KB45 (Kunst in België sinds 1945 / Art in Belgium since 1945) aims to map postwar development of living art in Belgium in the post-war era from a ...read more
MUTUALIST. Machine translation with user-specific training and user-specific adaptation for literary texts. Impact on individual style in translation

2020

In the translation industry, improving machine translation (MT) output by post-editing is commonly used to increase productivity and consistency. However, some research showed that post-editing leads to homogenization and normalization. ...read more
Turning superstition into science. Atmospheric tides science and the transformation of astrology in Enlightenment Continental Europe

2020

The period 1700-1840 witnessed the flowering of a new ‘atmospheric tides’ science. The basic assumption of this science was that the moon and the sun not only generate significant tidal ...read more
GCND. The spoken corpus of Southern-Dutch dialects

2020

The GCND will be the first corpus of spoken Dutch dialects. It aims at making accessible a unique collection of dialect recordings from 768 places in Belgium, France and the south of the Netherlands, ...read more
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Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie

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