Projects
Piety, Poverty, and Politics: The Dynamics of Vincentian Charity in Modern Belgium (1830-1945) KU Leuven
The act of voluntary giving to those in need has been an enduring facet of human history. In the Catholic tradition, benevolence is intrinsically associated with the virtue of charity, prescribing not only the dispensation of alms but also the internalization of love for the other out of love for God within the believer’s disposition. Charity moreover served as an important source of social assistance for those facing poverty, preserving this ...
A dead language resuscitated? Ancient Greek in early modern culture and scholarship KU Leuven
Clothing and Age in Fairy Tales and their Modern Adaptations (MW). University of Antwerp
The Modern versus Extended Evolutionary Synthesis: an intra-genomic gene's eye view for the evolution-theoretic underpinning of molecular and developmental epigenetics Ghent University
Studying the phenotypic evolution of organisms in terms of populations of genes and genotypes, the Modern Synthesis (MS) conceptualizes biological evolution in terms of 'inter-organismal' interactions among genes sitting in the different individual organisms that constitute a population.
It 'black-boxes' the complex 'intra-organismic' molecular and developmental epigenetics that mediates between genotypes and phenotypes. To conceptually ...
Climate and environmental history of East Africa since the origin of modern humans: recovering a continuous 250.000-year lake sediment sequence from Lake Challa near Mt. Kilimanjaro Ghent University
The research infrastructure that is the subject of this proposal are the lake-sediment cores from Lake Challa to be recovered by ICDP project DeepCHALLA, and which represent a globally unique resource for reconstructing the climate and environmental history of East Africa over the past ~250,000 years. Our specific aim is to retrieve continuous sediment sequences (as cores drilled in consecutive 3-m sections) from 3 sites within Lake Challa, ...
New ideas, new identities? The constitutional foundations and the development of the political offence in Belgium (1831-2010). KU Leuven
Democracy Extended or Imperilled by Technology? How British, Canadian, and Australian parliamentarians’ changing conceptions of the past and future transformed television regulation, 1950-1980 KU Leuven
Politics today faces pressure to regulate digital technologies that threaten democracy. However, the urgency for politicians worldwide to regulate media is not new, as communication has always constituted the backbone of democracy. This project investigates how politicians’ changing engagement with the past and future of communication technology affected their regulation of television. It compares debate interventions and voting records of ...
Understanding the development of business culture in India: a contemporary history analysis of the content and the impact of Business education KU Leuven
Management and business schools constitute a dense cross-border network of knowledge institutes that are responsible for training significant parts of populations. The theories, tools and methods taught at management schools have been diffused on a large scale and have impregnated different levels of social organisation. Management schools have played a significant role in the legitimation of new knowledges that are co-productive to the ...
Investigation of the construction of integrating world views Vrije Universiteit Brussel
(1) The construction of a model of the world: research ...