Projects
The dynamics of correlated multiple grammatical changes in Early Modern English writers (MindBendingGrammars). University of Antwerp
Crises as Opportunities: towards a Level Telling Field on Migration and a New Narrative of Successful Integration Ghent University
The humanitarian tragedy of 2015-16 fuelled anti-European sentiment, allowing populists to successfully reframe the refugee
crisis as a crisis of Europe itself. OPPORTUNITIES shows how we can move beyond this current impasse by creating a
forward-looking and productive debate grounded in new principles for a fair dialogue on immigration and successful
integration. These new principles form what we call a level telling field: ...
TRANSUNIV: University education and professional integration. KU Leuven
University education and professional integration in cross-border context.
Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism KU Leuven
Mimesis is one of the most influential concepts in Western thought. Originally invoked to define humans as the “most imitative” creatures in classical antiquity, mimesis (imitation) has recently been at the centre of theoretical debates in the humanities, social sciences, and the neurosciences concerning the role of “mimicry,” “identification,” “contagion,” and “mirror neurons” in the formation of subjectivity. And yet, despite the growing ...
Memory of empire: the post-imperial historiography of Lata Antiquity Ghent University
The project offers the first comprehensive interpretation and reconstruction of all historiographical traditions in the Mediterranean from the 4th to the 8th c. AD. It advances the hypothesis that the historiography of this period should be understood as 'post-imperial': the literary, cultural, and political traditions of the Roman empire remained the point of reference at a time when that emire had largely distintegrated.
Erasmus+ Key Action 2 : Pragmatic competence from a multilingual perspective [PRACOMUL] Vrije Universiteit Brussel
acquire and practice pragmatic and intercultural competences in Spanish as a second language from a multilingual perspective.
Narrating the Mesh: Ecology and the Non-Human in Contemporary Fiction and Oral Storytelling (NARMESH) Ghent University
NARMESH is a multidisciplinary research project interrogating narrative’s potential for staging, challenging, and expanding the human imagination of the nonhuman. The aim is to explore how narrative, in both contemporary (post-1990) fiction and oral storytelling, can (1) capture the ways in which humans are dependent upon the nonhuman world and (2) reconfigure people’s understanding of the nonhuman.
Open Product and Materials Center Ghent University
P³ LABO
Open Product and Materials Center
EFRO
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