Projects
A Belgian artist in Italy: Italian Art History and Culture in the work of Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018) Ghent University
This research will investigate the artistic, intellectual and institutional interaction between the Italian and Belgian art scene during the 1980s and 1990s. This broader exchange will be analysed through a profound study of the artist Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018). To this end, underexposed aspects of Belgian and Italian art of the last quarter of the 20th century will be reassessed.
Strategic Research Programme: Cultures of Mathematics: Logic, Philosophy and History of Mathematical Practices. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
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 ...
Dead End: an economic and cultural history of Japan in the age of the great depression 1927 - 1937 (JapanGreatDepression). KU Leuven
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 ...
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.
On the Perpetual Becoming of Sculpture and History and Their Moments of Convergence. University of Antwerp
The grammaticalization of the future and conditional tense in the history of Ibero-Romance: a language and dialect contact approach Ghent University
Time-Travelling Boxes? French History Comics as a New Way of Considering History. Ghent University
Lately, the assumption that comics are only made for entertainment and lack historical objectivity has tended to be obscured by a new function: historical fiction and nonfiction comics have established themselves as a laboratory for reflection on practices and meanings of historical writing, and have become both a phenomenon and a symbol. A phenomenon, for in France, since the 1990s, historical comics have been reaching a growing readership ...