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Linguistic Displacement in Contemporary Theatre and Performance Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Multilingualism concerns the plurality of distinct national languages as well as the ‘polysemantic clutteredness’ (Carlson 2006) that results from processes of linguistic transfer and translation. Differences and shifts between written and oral language, between verbal and corporeal language, or between literal and metaphorical ways of speaking add to the multilayered semantics of language and its volatile dynamics of ‘displacement’ (language ...

To Be Seen: Nubian Displacement and en-gendered Resistance in 'Public' Space. University of Antwerp

Els De Vos

Henry van de Velde

This project investigates how gender relations become manifest in the design, uses and representations of the built environment of displaced Nubians, an African population that was displaced and resettled in 1964, under a development-induced displacement and resettlement (DIDR) scheme. It does so in order to develop a toolkit for designers who want to work with marginalized communities.Gender aspects of disposition and post-displacement ...

Landlessness and Collective Violent REsistance to Mining Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR) in Developing Countries: The Case of Anti-Phulbari Coal Mining Movement in Bangladesh Ghent University

Bert Suykens

Department of Conflict and Development Studies

This research project explores the role of landless people in collective resistance to Mining-Induced Displacement and Resettlement (MIDR)caused by the Phulbari Coal Mining project (Bangladesh). It explores the relationship between landlessness, forced displacement, exclusion, and collective resistance to fill a gap in MIDR scholarship, which has almost exclusively paid attention to effects of MIDR on people with formal land-rights.

The impact of mining-induced displacement and resettlement on the dynamics of belonging among displaced people in Katanga (DR Congo) Ghent University

Koen Vlassenroot

Department of Conflict and Development Studies

When transnational mining corporations start up a large-scale mining project, they often decide to dispossess, relocate and resettle (some of) the people living in their mining concession, so that they can move ahead with their mining operations in an undisturbed manner. This research project seeks to examine the impact of this involuntary displacement on people's sense of feeling at home. The project wants to examine which strategies ...

Engendering displacement and resettlement in Ethiopia: the case of Nech Sare National park. Ghent University

Joost Dessein

Department of Agricultural economics

This research wants to highlight the conceptual links between gender and displacement and inform how resettlement programmes can fail due to their neglect of gender concerns; identify and understand why gender blindness and insensitivity persist in policies and programmes; and elaborate how gender can concretely be incorporated into the plans and activities of different state and policy actors in the course of resettlement programmes.

The Borrowed Gaze. Research of the use of displacement in time and space of the photographical image of the past in the paintings of Karin Hanssen. University of Antwerp

Kurt Vanhoutte

Research Centre for Visual Poetics

The purpose of the research is to see how the flashback operates in figurative contemporary painting and to define its meaning, form and use from a practical and a theoretical point of view.This research of the flashback will take the work of Karin Hanssen (new and existing) as a point of departure. This will undergo a comparative study with the work of other contemporary artists.The kind of image that is used as source material and selected ...

Uprooted Childhoods: Practices of Transnational Child Displacements (Belgium, 1945-1980). University of Antwerp

Henk de Smaele

Power in History - Centre for Political History

In the course of the 20th century, violent conflicts, ethnic struggle and humanitarian crises caused an extensive number of children being transferred from one country to another. Philanthropic and nationalist objectives, the children's 'best interests', but also a growing 'demand' from childless couples lay at the basis of these displacements. This project aims to investigate how post-war cases of transnational child displacements were ...

Nanobodies to recognize non-canonical DNA structures and regulate their formation in vivo Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Remy Loris

Structural Biology Brussels, University of Warwick, Department of Bio-engineering Sciences

In 1953, Watson and Crick presented their iconic structure of double-stranded DNA. Since then, this structure has been firmly etched into humanity's cultural memory. But DNA is also capable of adopting other structures that only appear in certain contexts. Widely known, for example, are the so-called G- quadruplexes (G4), formed from G-rich sequences, and i-motifs, formed from the complementary strand. Although these structures have been ...

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