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Imagination and Moral Reasoning. Creative Imagination in Moral Option Generation. University of Antwerp

Katrien Schaubroeck
Center for Ethics
As a human faculty, imagination is often linked to the creativity of the mind, as displayed, for instance, by artists or children. This project examines its functional roles in moral reasoning. People often seem to use their imagination in situations where moral problems are at stake. Suppose that you cross the path of a refugee begging for help. You would probably try to imagine several things: the things the other has been through, what your ...

Rethinking situated artistic practices. Towards collective places for imagination KU Leuven

Anja Veirman
Image Research Unit, Ghent Campus

This transdisciplinary practice-based research in the arts draws from my site-specific installation and situated performance artwork. I understand situated artistic practices as the constitution of temporary places for exploring, exchanging, and creating knowledge in collectivity through diverse art forms such as temporary sculpture constructions, expanded drawing and body movement. These practices are challenging commonalities between ...

IMAGINATION : IMAGing bIomarkers for diagNosis, therAnosTIcs and drug develOpmeNt KU Leuven

Koen Van Laere
Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging, Radiopharmaceutical Research
Our consortium has long-standing experience in development, preclinical and clinical use of radiopharmaceuticals for molecular imaging in diagnostics and biomarkers for early drug development, as well as their theranostic use with selective beta/alpha emitting radionuclides (radionuclide therapy, RNT). The consortium is one of the few centers in Europe that provides the full chain of radiochemical/pharmaceutical development, preclinical ...

The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization–'Deadly Germs' in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958 KU Leuven

Jan Schmidt
Japanese Studies, Leuven, Cultural History since 1750, Leuven, WASEDA University, Kyushu University, University of Edinburgh
The imagination of bacteria and viruses – invisible to the naked eye – was ubiquitous in popular culture from the Interwar Period onwards. State actors such as politicians, bureaucrats involved in the rapidly growing public health sector and military officers, as well as medical experts working on infectious diseases, let their imagination run free on the hunt for ‘deadly germs’. Future visions of pandemics after the ‘Spanish Flu’ of 1918-1920 ...

The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization – ‘Deadly Germs’ in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958 KU Leuven

Jan Schmidt
Japanese Studies, Leuven

The imagination of bacteria and viruses – invisible to the naked eye – was ubiquitous in popular culture from the Interwar Period onwards. State actors such as politicians, bureaucrats involved in the rapidly growing public health sector and military officers, as well as medical experts working on infectious
diseases, let their imagination run free on the hunt for ‘deadly germs’. Future visions of pandemics after
the ‘Spanish Flu’ ...

The Future of the Invisible and its Mediatization – ‘Deadly Germs’ in the Imagination of Infectious Disease Experts, the State, and Popular Culture in Japan, 1918-1958 KU Leuven

Jan Schmidt
Japanese Studies, Leuven

The imagination of bacteria and viruses – invisible to the naked eye – was ubiquitous in popular culture from the Interwar Period onwards. State actors such as politicians, bureaucrats involved in the rapidly growing public health sector and military officers, as well as medical experts working on infectious
diseases, let their imagination run free on the hunt for ‘deadly germs’. Future visions of pandemics after
the ‘Spanish Flu’ ...

History as “Fairy-ground”: Scottish and Irish Female Voices and the Gothic Imagination (1780-1830) KU Leuven

Tom Toremans
English Literature, Brussels Campus, Literary Studies Research Unit, Leuven

The project inscribes itself in Gothic criticism’s recognition of the temporal dynamic of Gothic narratives. It articulates the Gothic as an aesthetic that negotiates the temporal and ideological relation between past and present. The study examines how female authors from Scotland and Ireland stage the past in Gothic texts in the Romantic Period (1780-1830). In particular, it focuses on the emplotment and anachronisation of the ...

The Environmental Imagination in African Francophone Literature. An Ecopoetic Inquiry into Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean Islands Fiction (1990-present) Ghent University

Pierre Schoentjes
Department of Literary Studies

Ecological issues occupy an ever-growing place in contemporary literature. I intend to examine how francophone novels and novellas by Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean islands authors address the environmental problems of Africa. As there was an ecological leap forward in the African literary imagination as a consequence of market globalisation and the establishment of capitalist regimes after fall of the Berlin Wall, I will focus on ...

SCHENK HATTORI, A PRACTICE OF PERCEPTION AND IMAGINATION KU Leuven

Harold Fallon
Architecture and Design, History, Theory and Criticism of Architecture

This is a design-based research (research in practice – Schenk Hattori) to reveal the anatomy of phenomena that are able to induce constant re-creation through some kind of newness suggesting the existence of real enchantment.

The activity of physical presence on our body, has been rendered as a subject rather absent for more than fifty years. (Jarzombek) Its intentionality, its presence and its meaning can differ from the spectacular ...

Imagination As A Lens (IAL). University of Antwerp

Bence Nanay
Centre for Philosophical Psychology
Invocations of the imagination to describe and explain aspects of our thought and action are commonplace all across philosophy: in metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, philosophy of mind, of science, and so on. Beyond philosophy, imagination is also invoked in psychology, religious studies, English literature, anthropology, and other disciplines. The diversity of these invocations raises the worry that there is no unanimous conception ...