Projects
Stratification and social inequality in Italy and Lugdunum. A comparative qualitative epigraphic analysis of the class structure, power relations and social struggle between municipal status groups during the Principate. Ghent University
Romans meticulously described their social position, but modern researchers often use general categories treating humiliores as an undifferentiated 'class'. We want to investigate 'status groups' from local Italian municipalities and the relationships between them and compare them with material from Lugdunum. How are power relations, competition and violence connected with 'class' and hierarchy? We will use concepts from P. Bourdieu.
The imagination of the novel: towards a recalibration of the poetics of the novel in Italy (1945-1980) Ghent University
A study of the role of "imagination" and "knowledge" in poetics of the novel in a number of authors who do not easily fit in the dominant vision on the development of the Italian novel between 1945 and 1980. The final objective is to contribute to a recalibration of the history of the Italian novel in this period.
History as a reference standard and / Historicism in the seventeenth and eighteenth century architecture in Italy and Europe. Ghent University
Science parks and Business Incubators in Belgium, Brazil and Italy: Strategic Choices, Institutional context and Performance indicators. University of Antwerp
The Contribution of Inscriptional Evidence for the Analysis of the Vulgar Latin Vowel System (ranging from the Republican age to the Proto-Romance Period). Rome and Italy: a comparative study. Ghent University
The project studies how the vowel system of so-called "Classical Latin" (CL) evolved into the vowel system of the Romance languages from a diachronic, diatopic, and sociolinguistic perspective (the former system was based on distinctions of vowel quantity, while the latter is mostly based on quality oppositions). To this end, the research considers two different kinds of evidence: metalinguistic testimonies in Latin grammarians ("the indirect ...
Pragmatic expletive pronouns in the dialects of southern Italy: an experimental-syntactic approach Ghent University
Despite their status as null subject languages, several southern Italian dialects feature expletive subject pronouns. These do not serve as a ‘dummy subject pronoun’ like typical expletives, but rather have a pragmatic function. In Campanian dialects, this expletive takes the form of the distal demonstrative chillo ‘that’. According to the literature, there are two pragmatic uses of chillo, which distinguish themselves formally and ...
Travertine shrub structures: origin, diagenetic modifications and petrophysical characteristics - Tivoli case (Central Italy) KU Leuven
The discovery of complex continental carbonate reservoirs in the South Atlantic (Brazil and Africa) rift-sag lacustrine basins has generated considerable industrial and scientific interest. One of the most common and promising reservoir lithotype described in the so-called “Pre-Salt” interval is characterized by shrub structures. Searching for analogues, the shrub morpho-types from Tivoli travertines (Central Italy) seems to be a candidate, ...
Italy’s Phantoms: The Italic/Italian identity Between History and Memory. KU Leuven
Italian identity has for a long time confronted itself with the phantom of ‘Italics’, that is to say, those peoples who lived in the peninsula before the rise of Rome, which almost completely destroyed them. Due to the mysterious nature of these peoples (they left little or no trace of themselves) and their being isolated in a remote past as well as in a peripheral space (the Italian South and the countryside), the culture of ancient ...
The spatial organization of economic activities in Roman Italy: an integration of non-invasive and invasive archaeological research and written evidence (300 BC - AD 300) Ghent University
My central objective is to conduct a topographical analysis of economic activities within Roman cities in Italy through the use of an integration of non-invasive and invasive archaelogical methods. I aim to investigate how commercial building (e.g shops, warehouses, market, buildings)and production buildings (e.g. fulleries,workshops) were spatially organized and whether Roman cities were subjected to a deliberate planned or organically grown ...