Projects
The Rhetoricity of Philosophical Practice: On the Rhetorical Audience in Perelman and Ricœur after the Badiou-Cassin Debate KU Leuven
Despite fundamentally disagreeing over the nature of philosophy and sophistry in their ongoing debate, Alain Badiou and Barbara Cassin both agree that rhetoric is a dead end for contemporary thought. For Badiou, the proud Platonist, rhetoric’s concern with audiences and their opinions leaves it entirely divorced from truths. For Cassin, the avowed sophist, rhetoric was never anything more than a philosophical ruse designed to contain the ...
'Educated brains raising brains in need of education'. Critical metaphor analysis of conceptualisations of 'good parenthood' in (neuro)Discourse of parenthood in Flanders KU Leuven
SUMMARY – ‘Educated brains raising brains in need of education’. Critical metaphor analysis of conceptualisations of ‘good parenthood’ in (neuro)Discourses of parenthood in Flanders
Research about the relation between ‘good parenthood’ and discourse about the brain predominantly stems from investigated contexts of Anglo-Saxon countries and regions, such as the UK and the US. Literature study indicates that this relation has not yet ...
Critical Archives of Ordinariness: Vernacular Moving Image Practices and Migrant Identity in Polish Chicago KU Leuven
This project explores home movies and related oral histories of Polish Chicago before the digital era (1960s–2000s) to challenge and broaden our understanding of evolving migrant and diaspora identities. Following critical archive studies’ call to empower communities underrepresented in historiography by developing and interrogating archival collections, the project juxtaposes home movies – “ordinary” motion pictures created for family and ...
Digital textanalysis. University of Antwerp
The Planet on the Table: Wallace Stevens as a World Poet. University of Antwerp
Housing the Nation Abroad. The Belgian Diplomatic Representation through Architecture, Furniture and Art, 1830-1939. KU Leuven
This research project aims to investigate the role attributed to architecture and art in the deployment of the Belgian diplomatic network from the moment of its foundation until the outbreak of the second world war. It will do so by focusing on the embassy building, an architectural typology which gradually emerged within the context of the nineteenth century transformation of national governance. The project questions whether cultural ...