Name "Responsible (Organisation)" "Activity (Organisation)" "Affiliation (Researcher)" "Centre for the Pre-Industrial Production Processes and Labour Relations" "The last few years historical research focuses on guilds: the social, economical, political and cultural functions of guilds in urban industries during the Modern Period. Empirical study concentrates on the Spanish and Austrian Netherlands, especially on the duchy of Brabant and the county of Flanders. A comparative and long-term approach is designed to place guilds in a new perspective, related with the growing international intrest of this topic. PIPA also is the core-unit of the research group 'Labour, Labour Relations and Labour Markets, 1500-2000' (Fund of Scientific Research Flanders). This research group is a network of twenty research units from seventeen different scientific institutions from Belgium (VUB, UG, KUL, UFSIA, ULB), the Netherlands (IISG Amsterdam, KU Nijmegen, RU Utrecht), the United Kingdom (U. Cambridge, U. Essex, London School of Economics and Political Science), France (Lille III), Austria (U. Salzburg), Germany (MLU Halle), Italy (UdS Bologna), Spain (UA Madrid) and the USA (Cornell) ). The aims of this international network are: to further interdisciplinary and international co-operation agreements among scholars, in the study of the changes that have occurred in labour processes, labour relations and labour markets since the sixteenth century, with special reference to periods of global societal transformation and urban wage-earners and self-employed artisans or shopkeepers. Western Europe is the core area." "Hugo Soly" "Vriendenkring VUB, Historical Research into Urban Transformation Processes" "Thijs Lambrecht" "Department of History" "Ignace Verpoest" "Structural Composites and Alloys, Integrity and Nondestructive Testing (SCALINT)" "Bert De Munck" "Centre for Urban History" "Catharina Lis" "Vriendenkring VUB" "Karl C M Vrancken" "Sustainable Energy, Air and Water Technology (DuEL)" "Eva BONGAERTS" "Biology - Geology, Environmental Biology, Research Institute: Centre for Environmental Sciences, Faculty of Sciences" "Chinese Studies, Leuven" "Nicolas Standaert" "Sinology at KULeuven includes the following three domains of research: 1. CLASSICAL CHINESE PHILOSOPHY (Zhou en Han Dynasties): * An analysis of the 'Xunzi' as a culmination of early Chinese philosophical debates; * The ethic-religious core chapters of 'Mozi': a textual analysis of the three-fold structure; * A study of the 'Xunzi'; * Paradoxes in early taoist writings: a philosophical and textual analysis; * From normative language to discussion of principles in Early China (-5 till -2 century); * Reconstructing the classical repertoire of Chinese emotions; * A study of the 'Mencius'. 2. CULTURAL EXCHANGE BETWEEN CHINA AND THE WEST (since the 17th century). * Ritual in the exchange between China and the West in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; * Scientific categories in Chinese primary sources related to Christianity in the seventeenth century; * Moral thought and action in Christian communities of the Shanxi -Shaanxi region during late Ming and early Qing; * Compilation of a bibliography of primary Chinese sources concerning Christianity in seventeenth century China; * Comparative philosophy China-Europe; * Handbook of Oriental Studies: Christianity in China; * Sinological study of Christiantiy in China; * Catalogue of primary Chinese sources on the encounter between China and the West in the 17th century; * The Ferdinand Verbiest Project 3. MODERN CHINA * Feng Youlan's 'History of Chinese philosophy': the Chinese philosophical tradition in modern China." "Stijn Van Hulle" "Department of Green Chemistry and Technology"