Projects
Wrong-Doing, Truth-Seeking. A Cultural History of Criminal Interrogation, 1750-1850 KU Leuven
Psychology is not only a matter of professional psychologists. Historians have shown that psychological knowledge has often not been created in laboratories or academies, but had its origins in practical settings, such as schools and prisons. However, we know little about practical psychology before the late nineteenth century. As a result, we continue to undervalue how practical purposes for knowledge of the human mind have influenced ...
Military occupation as a transnational form of politics. A social and cultural history of the German occupation administration in Belgium during the first and the Second World War. University of Antwerp
Language change, cultural change? Social deixis through nominal and pronominal address in the history of English KU Leuven
Address terms constitute a core resource for realizing social deixis. Because of address terms' prominent social function, changes in address systems are often attributed to cultural changes (e.g. recent changes in address between children and parents may reflect changing parent-child relationships). However, these explanations have rarely been tested on a systematic basis. Cultural explanations of changes in address usage are most convincing ...
From private 'folk' to 'Indian/Rajasthani Gypsy' dance on global stages to Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO): the history of Kalbeliya dance (ca. 1960 to the present) Ghent University
This project presents a first in-dept study of Kalbeliya dance, focusing on its transformations from a folk dance practised exclusively at home, to a folk dance performed in public. The study aims to answer the following questions: What are the historical evolutions that can be osbserved from the sixties ('pure dance') to the present ('performing art')? And how is Kalbeliya dance conceptualized within the broader context of 'Classical' Indian ...
Cultural trade between the Southern Netherlands and New Spain. A history of transatlantic book circuits and book consumption in the early modern age. KU Leuven
BOF-ZAP-office in Cultural History Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages Ghent University
BOF-ZAP-office in Cultural History Late Antiquity / Early Middle Ages
Dead End: an economic and cultural history of Japan in the age of the great depression 1927 - 1937 (JapanGreatDepression). KU Leuven
An Archaeometric Study of Soil and Glass from the High Medieval Castle of Cucagna, Northern Italy. Interdisciplinary interpretations regarding glass technology, geochemistry of the soil burial environment, conservation and cultural history KU Leuven
This research is based on archaeological glass with corresponding soil samples, excavated on the site of the high medieval castle Cucagna in Friuli/Northern Italy. The glass fragments can be dated between the 13th and the 15th century AD.
The core hypothesis of this work is that the glass used at Cucagna Castle were brought in from the Northern Italian glass factories under Venetian patronage, as the impressive glass qualities ...
Towards a Cultural Histroy of Ephemera Ghent University
During the proposed 3-month fellowship period, Professor James Raven will be working on the unique ephemera collection and eighteenth-century printing ledgers in the UGent Special Collections Department. His work will be hosted by the Centre for the Study of Text and Print Culture whose Staff will closely collaborate with Professor Raven on ephemera-related and book-historical subjects.