Projects
Religious toleration and peace (RETOPEA). KU Leuven
Based on this research, RETOPEA will develop innovative educational tools and evidence-based policy recommendations. Through active participation in the production of docutubes (online movies), teenagers will be encouraged to actively engage with different ways of understanding religious cohabitation. RETOPEA will build an educational package to support students in creating their docutubes. A training course will provide professional ...
European Cinema Audiences: Entangled Histories and Shared Memories Ghent University
Mapping European Cinema: a comparative project on cinema-going experiences in the 1950s Ghent University
Belgian Researchers Animating Sport and Innovation Links Ghent University
In this project a U+201CResearchers NightU+201D is organised, a large public event about science and technology related to sports. The goal is to make common people better acquainted with the profession of researcher. The Night is organised in cooperation with the Ghent University College and the Artevelde University College, and consists of a science fair, science cafés, lectures and animation.
Children in Comics: An intercultural history from 1865 to today Ghent University
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics - newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels - provide valuable insight into the transformation fo collective consciousness. This project advances the hypothesis that children in comics are distinctive embodiments of the complex experience of modernity, channeling and tempering modern anxieties and incarnating the freedom denied to adults. In testing this ...
Neo-Ottomanism? New Strategies of Turkey and the Impact of Foreign Aid to Post-War Cultural Reconstruction in the Balkans. KU Leuven
This project seeks to find out how foreign assistance in the fields of culture, religious revival and education change regions ravaged by inter-ethnic violence and state breakdown, and how such foreign assistance is perceived locally. My case study is the assistance provided from the Turkish Republic to Bosnia-Herzegovina, and local responses to it. The empirical research will focus on Turkish aid in the areas of higher education, religious ...