Projects
Comparative analysis of the legal status of public servants: Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Sweden and Italy. Hasselt University
Wine, villa landscapes and cities: the impact of Roman colonialism on the central Adriatic coastal regions of Italy Ghent University
This project aims to disentangle the complex relationship between Roman colonialism, elite investment in wine production and commerce, and the urban and rural landscape changes which these developments brought about. The research is confined to the territories of the Roman colonies on the central Adriatic coast and to the Republican phases of the Romanization of this part of Italy (3rd-1st centuries BC).
Peter Paul Rubens and the distribution of secret knowledge in Antwerp and Italy. Ghent University
This project will discuss the possesson, circulation and exchange of learned and secret knowledge in Antwerp and Italy, foucusing on Rubens's interaction with leading scholars of his time and his pupils. In order tot do so it will particularly focus on the books, manuscripts, gnostic gems and some antiquities belonging to the artist's collections as a representation of his attitude towards the appropriation of occult knowledge.
Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti: A Comparative Study of Experimental Art Documentaries in Belgium and Italy (1940-1965) Ghent University
Focusing on European art documentaries made in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, this research
project aims at investigating two of its key figures, who were both leading art historians, critics,
and filmmakers: Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Both Haesaerts and Ragghianti
attempted to translate the disciplines of art history and art criticism into film, using various
cinematic devices to analyse the ...
A Connected History of Medieval Mediterranean Diplomacy: The Mamluk Sultanate, Italy, and the Crown of Aragon (14th-15th century) (Diplomaticon). University of Antwerp
Decentring diligence. Time, work and the industrious revolution in early modern Italy (1570-1840). University of Antwerp
Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti: A Comparative Study of Experimental Art Documentaries in Belgium and Italy (1940-1965) Ghent University
Focusing on European art documentaries made in the 1940s, 1950s, and early 1960s, this research
project aims at investigating two of its key figures, who were both leading art historians, critics,
and filmmakers: Paul Haesaerts and Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti. Both Haesaerts and Ragghianti
attempted to translate the disciplines of art history and art criticism into film, using various
cinematic devices to analyse the ...
FWO travel credit for a long stay abroad, at University of Trieste, Italy concerning study "Febrile seizures persistently alter hippocampal GABAA receptor physiology" Hasselt University
Delivered with care. Perspectives on maternal health and reproduction in Belgium and Italy (17th to early 20th centuries). Ghent University
I examine whether socially stratified medicalization was a factor in the European fertility transition. The transition refers to a general decline in birth rates due to effective use of birth control within marriage. The project is based on the hypothesis that between the 17th and 20th century health was increasingly perceived as manageable. In this project I focus on maternal health. This refers to the physical wellbeing of mothers in ...