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Sabbatical 2018-2019 Prof. Christiane Stallaert. University of Antwerp

Christiane Stallaert
Translation, Interpreting and Intercultural Studies (TricS)
My research as a hispanist and anthropologist focuses on social and political themes (nationalism, interethnic and interreligious society, migration, human rights, historical memory), and its interrelations. The cultural border is central to my work, which is inter- and transdisciplinary, at the intersection of Anthropology, Translation Studies and History. Geographically, my research domain is in Spain and Latin America (Mexico, Brazil, Andean ...

Philippines at the crossroads: mapping the international presence in the Philippine literary field in Spanish between 1872 and 1945. University of Antwerp

María del Rocío Ortuño Casanova
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN), Antwerp Centre for Digital humanities and literary Criticism (ACDC)
The Philippines, the only country in Asia with a major cultural production in Spanish, is geographically and has been historically a spot of intersection among routes between Asia and the Spanish Speaking world. This strategic position has had two consequences: (1) the multicultural composition of its national identity and cultural production, (2) that the country has been overshadowed as place of its own, to be only a transit point in ...

Catholic Medicine and its Others in Belgium and the Belgian Congo, 1900-1965 KU Leuven

Katelijne Wils
Cultural History since 1750, Leuven
This project inquires into the interaction between biomedicine and religion in Belgium and the Belgian Congo between 1900 and 1965. The project focuses on catholic health care providers: their scientific and religious beliefs, their professional identities and their interaction with both non-confessional, sometimes explicitly freethinking colleagues and – in Congo – protestant missionaries and local healing traditions. Two domains will be ...

Belgian missionaries and faith-based development work in Ranchi, India. Colonial legacy and present-day relevance. KU Leuven

Idesbald Goddeeris
Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven
Faith-based development aid evokes different reactions. It arouses suspicion in our age of secularization and postcolonial sensitivity, but it also remains valuable because religion continues to be an important aspect of peoples daily lives worldwide, especially in those areas in which development practitioners are active. The current project aims to examine the particularities of Christian development aid, analyze how they evolved in the ...

(Post) Ottoman Migrants and the Origins of the Modern World University of Antwerp

Isa Blumi
Power in History - Centre for Political History
From 1870 onwards, millions of Ottomans scattered throughout the world as refugees. This project explores the contribution these peoples had on the subsequent global transformations caused by their migrations. Considering that these refugees joined millions of others uprooted by "modernity," more research is needed to understand how they became part of the global economy and their possible role in shaping the politics of labor exploitation.

Belgian cinema from a postcolonial perspective. An interdisciplinary study of interculturality in Belgian cinema from 1960 till now with a focus on Belgian representations of Congo. University of Antwerp

Philippe Meers
Visual and Digital Cultures Research Center (ViDi)
The main objective of the research project is to analyze Belgian cinema – particularly those films dealing with our former colonies and intercultural films – through the postcolonial lens, and so (1) to dialogically contribute to both cinema studies and postcolonial studies and (2) to contribute to the historiography of Belgian cinema.

Towards a Research Network in the Social Sciences and Humanities in Karnataka Ghent University

Balagangadhara Rao
Department of Comparative sciences of culture

The project will create a network of researchers at universities and colleges in Karnataka, which will participate in rejuvenating and decolonizing the social sciences and humanities in the region and meet the local demand for scientifically informed debate on societal issues. The research network will emerge through a range of activities: workshops, expert classes, lecture series, national conference, research activities, dissemination ...

The "Awad el Djouh Affair". Slave Trade, Human Rights and the shaping of the Postcolonial World (1948-1962) Ghent University

Baz Lecocq
Department of History

The project deals with mediatised stories on slave trade from West Africa to Saudi Arabia in the mid 20th century and their effects on International and National Legislature. It will address both the construction of the postcolonial world in the 1950s, and the current reshaping of global history as a practice, through approaches taken in translocal and institutional world history.

Geographies of aid intervention in Palestine Ghent University

Sami Zemni
Department of Conflict and Development Studies

Recent scholarship has highlighted the problems associated with aid effectiveness in the occupied Palestinian territories. Faith in economic development to keep alive the U+201Cpeace processU+201D, as well as the dominantU+201Cpost-conflictU+201D framework has shaped most development interventions since the Oslo accords. Less research has been done about the microgeographies of development intervention in general, and the ways in which these ...

Omnivore paradoxes in history. Food traditions and novelties in Europe since 1800. Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Peter Scholliers
Sociology, Agogics, Germanic Languages, Art Sciences and Archaeology, History, Social-cultural food-research, Political Science
The aim of this project is to investigate to what extent people undergo "major changes", create, or are opposing it. Nutrition is taken as starting point. Various subquestions will be posed, the way in which technology appears in the kitchen; the way people combine time and money in relation to their nutrition; the way in which knowledge about eating culture is transferred through cookbooks.This is an international research, centerpoint is ...