Projects
Sabbatical Dirk De Bock: Modern mathematics: an international movement? KU Leuven
In 2019 I published, together with Professor Geert Vanpaemel, the monograph “Rods, sets and arrows. The rise and fall of modern mathematics in Belgium ”(https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030205980), a book described as an“ outstanding, landmark publication displaying the fruits of deep scholarship and careful research based on extensive analyzes of primary sources ”(Ellerton & Clements, 2019). During the requested Sabbath period, I ...
Sabbatical Anthony Dupont: Early witnesses to the reception of the Pelagian controversy KU Leuven
In the sabbatical period I want to start a new line of research (cfr. infra) with the study of the treatise Hypomnesticon contra Pelagianos et Caelestianos. This late antique treatise consists of six books, which systematically expound and refute the teachings of so-called Pelagianism (Books 1-5) and Semi-Pelagianism (Book 6). Although the anonymous author relied heavily on the works written by Augustine of Hippo in the Pelagian Controversy ...
Sabbatical Pieter R. Adriaens: Ignorance and health care: a philosophical approach KU Leuven
On the one hand, I reserve part of my sabbatical research time for the promotion of a book that will be published at the end of 2021 at The University of Chicago Press: The Sciences of Sexual Orientation. I would like to give some academic lectures on it at some English and Scottish universities, but hopefully also some public lectures in and around Cambridge, where I would like to spend part of my sabbatical. Depending on the interest in the ...
Foreign Crime Stories in Flanders (1900-1940): Translating a Popular Genre, Disseminating Ideas Ghent University
This project focusses on a selection of the many foreign crime stories in translation in Flanders between c. 1900 and 1940. The corpus comprises both crime stories that were published as books and crime stories that appeared in serial form in newspapers. The present research is the first to map out the circulation of foreign (mostly English and French) crime fiction in early-twentieth-century Flanders and to analyze the strategies that ...
A Flemish canon University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Russell Friedman: Late Scholastic Hylomorphism: Theories of Matter and Form, 1300-1600 KU Leuven
My main research interest is the hylomorphism of the period 1200-1600. The matter-form composition of (at least) material objects was a central element in the period’s metaphysics, natural philosophy, and philosophical psychology, and was pulled into logic, ethics, and theology. During the sabbatical period I’ll (1) bring one project to completion and (2) get as far as I can with a second. 1) In connection with my C1 project (Studying ...
Sabbatical - Pierre Delsaerdt. University of Antwerp
Books from the Low Countries in Colonial Colombia and Bolivia KU Leuven
The contribution of prints to the European expansion and the globalisation of the Early Modern world can hardly be overestimated. The knowledge of other continents circulated in Europe almost exclusively in the shape of printed books and engravings. On the other side, the printed book was the medium by excellence by which European knowledge was taken to the most remote parts of the earth. Printing houses in the Southern Netherlands played an ...
Sabbatical Krista De Jonge: Architecture in the Burgundian Golden Age KU Leuven
The main purpose of the sabbatical is to finalize a research and publishing project resulting from two C14 projects (2015-2019 and 2019-2024), as well as an MSCA ITN, which ends during the sabbatical (2019-2023), details see below IV. 2).
Theme: “Burgundian Palace Architecture in the Long Fifteenth Century, from Burgundy to the Low Countries.” Output: international, peer-reviewed publication (book) in the series Architectural ...