Projects
The role of European cultural institutions in the circulation of European cinema and the development of Chilean film culture (1955-1989) (ECICH). University of Antwerp
Integrated Approach in Management of Coastal Cultural Heritage KU Leuven
Humans have had a long history of interconnectedness with the sea and ocean due to the use of natural resources available in the coastal areas. These interactions have influenced the natural landscape and play a crucial role in the formation of coastal cultural heritage. Coastal cultural heritage, a continuum of land and sea, is an important part of our cultural resources in the coastal areas. Presently, coastal cultural heritage has not been ...
Overlooked Aspects of Cultural Evolution: Information, Maladaptation, and Evolutionary Trends KU Leuven
In the last decades, there has been an important theoretical shift towards a biology-based approach to the study of cultural evolution. This field came to be known as cultural evolutionary theory (CET), and although it consists of multiple approaches including dual-inheritance theory, epidemiology of representations, niche construction, and memetics, which differ from each other in some important respects, it is based on the view that culture ...
European Leadership in Cultural, Science and Innovation Diplomacy (EL-CSID) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Ideology of Heritage, Museum, Cultural Politics, and Construction of National Identity in Finland and Japan. University of Antwerp
Meat, Men & Masculinites: How the (non) consumption of meat relates to personal, interpersonal, and cultural communication, focusing on connections between "meat", "men" and "masculinity". University of Antwerp
Exploration of Yixie (Rewriting) in Chinese Cultural Translation KU Leuven
Chinese writers, on the mainland and overseas (henceforth “Chinese writers” for short), have introduced abundant Chinese culture in their English works, ostensibly in original writing, but in fact full of translation of Chinese cultural essence, ranging from culture-loaded terms, unique Chinese cultural phenomena to classical works. Without explicit proclamation, these Chinese writers performed translation at the “disguise” of writing. There ...
Preventive Conservation of Historic Urban Areas Addressing Cultural Values and Socio-Economic Dynamics. Case Study of the Vista Alegre District in Santiago de Cuba KU Leuven
Historic urban areas are threatened continuously by time- and context-specific political, economic, socio-cultural and technological factors that determine the changing nature of socio-economic dynamics, which in turn, also influence the meanings and perceptions of cultural values attributed these areas. Therefore, the interrelationship between cultural values and socio-economic dynamics is essential in heritage preservation. In particular, ...
A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation KU Leuven
In the current research program, I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation. This approach centers on the notion of ‘cultural fit’ – i.e., the extent to which an individual’s pattern of psychological functioning is similar to the typical pattern of others in the socio-cultural context. I start from the cultural psychological insights that people are socially ‘wired’ to fit their socio-cultural ...