Projects
Liberalisation, globalisation and EC competition law and policy. About the importance of state aid control. University of Antwerp
The infrastructure of globalisation: the Southern Netherlands as translation centre for the Spanish-Portuguese monarchy in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. KU Leuven
Belgian cities and globalisation: disadvantaged areas, models for social innovation and local development coalitions. KU Leuven
Indian Scientific Societies and the Globalization of Science, 1930-1990 KU Leuven
This PhD project is part of the ERC-funded research project GLOBAL ACADEMIES, which uses scientific societies as a lens to scrutinize the changing social relations between scientists at a global scale over the course of the twentieth century. The project focuses more specifically on the regulatory role of scientific societies within science (e.g. by organizing conferences, selecting speakers, allocating prizes, electing boards etc.) during a ...
Brazilian Scientific Societies and the Globalization of Science, 1930-1990 KU Leuven
This PhD project is part of the ERC-funded research project GLOBAL ACADEMIES, which uses scientific societies as a lens to scrutinize the changing social relations between scientists at a global scale over the course of the twentieth century. The project focuses more specifically on the regulatory role of scientific societies within science (e.g. by organizing conferences, selecting speakers, allocating prizes, electing boards etc.) during a ...
Scientific societies and the globalization of science (1930-1990) KU Leuven
Scientific societies have major impacts on the scientific community in a variety of ways, from organising conferences to publishing journals. The EU-funded GLOBAL ACADEMIES project aims to understand and map this impact. It will use scientific societies as a lens through which to scrutinise the changing social relations between scientists on a global scale. The focus will be on the 20th century, a period of intense social and geopolitical ...
Trade induced changes in productivity and globalization backlash KU Leuven
This work builds on the established literature on the China Trade Shock that occurred in the first decade of XXI century. Many studies have already shown that the sudden increase in import competition has caused employment losses and reduced wages in most affected sectors (Autor et al., 2013; Dauth et al., 2014) partly because less efficient firms were forced to exit the market. However, other empirical studies found that it caused a strong ...
THE RIGHT TO INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION: A PENDULUM BETWEEN GLOBALIZATION AND NATIVIZATION? Ghent University
The PROTECT research program is concerned with the future of the right to international protection within the currently turbulent international political context. Within a multilevel comparative framework it will assess the developments on global, regional, and national levels that are brought about by the emerging global protection regime as outlined by The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018) and The Global Compact ...
Safeguarding Savoir-Faire: Culinary Heritage Movements, Globalization, and Nationalism in Contemporary France. KU Leuven
In 2010, UNESCO granted the status of intangible cultural heritage to “The Gastronomic Meal of the French” elevating the art of the French meal to a position of protected cultural status. In the years following, a multitude of cultural events and movements have developed in France, many of which cite this accolade as a starting point for platforms seeking to further promote culinary heritage. While UNESCO states that intangible cultural ...