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Politics in late antique Rome: Networks and argumentation in SymmachusU+2019 Letters Ghent University

Lieve Van Hoof
Department of History

This project pushes the boundaries of social network analysis in order to study the letters of the important Roman senator Symmachus (fourth century AD). By doing so, the project contributes to a reassessment of late Roman politics, building on, and making a crucial contribution to, the BOFZAP research project U+201CLobbying in Late AntiquityU+201D, both qua methodology and qua content.

The Transmission of De civitate Dei from Late Antiquity until the 15th Century KU Leuven

Gert Partoens
Latin Literature, Leuven

My PhD research corresponds to one of five different work packages (henceforth WP) within a larger research project supervised by Jeroen De Keyser, Anthony Dupont, Gert Partoens and Andrea Aldo Robiglio, concerning a history of the reception of Augustine’s De civitate Dei (henceforth DCD). This project aims at (1) developing a comprehensive understanding of Augustine’s political thinking through an integrated study of ...

The Secretive Diffusion of the New Philosophy in the Low Countries: Evidence on the Teaching of Cartesian Philosophy from Student Notebooks 1650-1750 KU Leuven

Christoph Lüthy, Jan Papy
Latin Literature, Leuven

The diffusion of Descartes’ new philosophy was a story of both success and opposition. In the Low Countries, where Descartes has settled in 1628, his dualistic and materialistic physics and metaphysics were welcomed because of their novelty, and rejected because of several incompatible views with the prevalent Aristotelian, c.q. Catholic doctrine. Yet, if this famous chapter of the history of philosophy seems to have been written already in ...

Imagineering Violence - Techniques of Early Modern Performativity in the Northern and Southern Netherlands (1630-1690) (ITEMP-violence) Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Karel Vanhaesebrouck
Language and literature
Central to the project is the concept of imagineering, a term we have appropriated from its earlier use in the creative industry and that is a composite of ‘engineering’ and ‘imagining’. It allows us to conceptualise the reciprocally manipulative relation between audience and media. Not only did the public have an influence on commercial institutions such as the theatre or the publishing market, these media also had, the other way round, a ...

Daily life and crisis in literary journals. A multiperspective reading of diaries written during the Second World War Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hans Vandevoorde
Language and literature, Study Centre Experimental Literature
This project investigates which context- and form-related characteristics and which literary and anthropological functions of the diary are influenced by the historical and local crisis circumstances of war and occupation. Thus, it examines if the specific historical situation of the Second World War leads to changes in the genre of the journal and its functions. The proposed study is divided into two parts that are closely related. The first ...

Bridging the gap: Linking noticing and the implicit L2 acquisition of grammatical subregularities in a natural second language. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Alex Housen
Language and literature
While some researchers have claimed that, compared to children, adults have a reduced ability or are incapable of learning language unconsciously (implicitly), studies using artificial languages have shown that adults can acquire grammar rules implicitly, provided they receive ample language input. This project extends the latter line of research by investigating whether these findings also hold when a purely natural language (German) is used. ...

Dutch Experimental Realism of the 1960s - Reading Documentary Literature through Autobiographical Genres Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Hans Vandevoorde
Language and literature
This project aims to give an overview of the Dutch documentary literature of the 1960s. During this period various authors introduced reality in their work in a non-traditional way, pursuing an experimental realism. In order to approach this subject matter in a way that will contribute to both the understanding of Dutch literary history and documentary literature on an international level, I will study how readers are able to understand the ...

What's So Funny? Absurdist Humour in Absurdist Fiction from a Cognitive Perspective Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Inge Arteel
Language and literature, Study Centre Experimental Literature
The project examines the use of a specific type of humour in absurdist novels, which will be defined as absurdist humour. By combining cognitive humour theory with recent cognitive literary theory, specifically schema-theory, the project seeks to provide insight into the mechanisms of absurdist humour. Specific instances of absurdist humour will be explored through examination of a corpus of absurdist fiction, consisting of four American novels. ...

Britain in Europe: The Emergence of Post-Insular Identities and Transcultural Discourses in Contemporary British Literature Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Janine Hauthal
Language and literature
Despite the Euroscepticism dominating British foreign policy, contemporary British novelists, playwrights and travel writers play a vital role in imagining Europe as a transnational community. While previous studies on how Europe is imagined in British literature have predominantly drawn on postcolonial theory and demonstrated how Europe is constructed as Britain's national or cultural 'Other', this project attends to how contemporary British ...