BOF ZAP History of Science Ghent University
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
A professorship granted by the Special Research Fund is a primarily research-oriented position and is made available for excellent researchers with a high-quality research programme.
Inspired by the paradigmatic shifts of both transnational and global history, historians have, in recent years, begun to question the methodological nationalism and the exceptionalist discourses pervading the history of colonialism and imperialism. They argue that empires were not closed entities in which ideas, knowledge and practices were only generated in the metropole or, during the colonial encounter, in the colonies – nor did they only ...
The research project is on the development of postwar nuclear energy research in the country of Belgium, centered around the doings of Belgium’s major nuclear research center SCK•CEN. The SCK•CEN was founded in 1952, at a time when the postwar reconstruction of European scientific infrastructure took place with active interference from the US. In the project, the history of the SCK•CEN is placed in a context of (inter)national nuclear ...
A first line of research for CLPS is investigating non-classical logics. This includes both logics that constitute a fragment of classical logic (like some paraconsistent logic's) as logic that are an alternative to classical logic (as some relevant logics). Important to us is to design and research on adaptive logic programs. Adaptive Logics (first developed by Diderik Batens, founder CLPS) provide a uniform framework for studying cognitive ...
With this application we seek to replace the Dept. of Geology’s aging Scanning Electron Microscope with a model that is up to challenges of modern Earth Science research in geology, archaeology and soil management. Our current SEM is c. 25 years old and has reached the end of its serviceable cycle. Nevertheless, this instrument is pivotal in the day-to-day functioning of the emerging research group of two newly appointed lecturers, T. ...
How were academic networks configured in the premodern world, and how did they change? This doctoral project seeks to offer a data-driven answer by computing networks at and around the Old University of Louvain (1425-1797), a crucial hub for the transfer of knowledge in late medieval and early modern Europe. Drawing upon datasets under construction from the teams of the PIs at KU Leuven and UCLouvain, this project sets out to plot and ...
This project first aimed to draw lessons from works that have confronted the Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and musicology since the start of the 1980s, in order to set up a methodological model of Actor-Network Theory-informed musicology. Its second goal was to apply the various principles and methods of this theory to a unified research body, and even to musicology as a whole. Two main case studies were chosen to undertake this project: the ...
The research infrastructure that is the subject of this proposal are the lake-sediment cores from Lake Challa to be recovered by ICDP project DeepCHALLA, and which represent a globally unique resource for reconstructing the climate and environmental history of East Africa over the past ~250,000 years. Our specific aim is to retrieve continuous sediment sequences (as cores drilled in consecutive 3-m sections) from 3 sites within Lake Challa, ...