Projects
Translation and nation building in Brazil. The role of Dom Pedro II. University of Antwerp
Enhancing Mental Health, Counselling, and Wellbeing Support for University Students in Bhutan (Erasmus+ Key Action 2 – Capacity Building in Higher Education) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
By the end of this project, funded by Erasmus+ Capacity Building in the field of Higher Education, a unique Happiness and Wellbeing Centre will have been established in all of the Royal University of Bhutan ...
The nation in the town: imagining the nation beyond Benedict Anderson. University of Antwerp
Towards the development of norovirus antiviral drugs: building a unique toolbox of model systems to study the efficacy and mode of action of new inhibitors KU Leuven
Human noroviruses (HuNoVs) are single stranded, positive sense RNA viruses belonging to the Caliciviridae family. HuNoV infections result in vomiting and watery non-bloody diarrhea. Infections occur worldwide and are an important health issue that affects all age groups, resulting annually in 200,000 deaths. Infections occur via the fecal-oral route, by consumption of contaminated food or water and by person-to-person contact. HuNoV ...
Advanced performance assessment of existing concrete buildings by coupling 3D analysis of load arrangement, structure analysis including membrane action and test-based model updating KU Leuven
To meet climate objectives there is a clear need to deal differently with our building patrimony. In the future, buildings structures must be re-used possibly in combination with changes of their intended function. This research work will develop an assessment procedure for existing structures. After collecting the necessary historical data, the procedure focuses on the modelling of load arrangements through linear FEA. Despite being the ...
Images of a nation. A multi-methodological historical research on policy and nation-building in Flemish feature films Ghent University
This PhD proposal analyses practices of nation-building in Flemish feature films, with a special focus upon the role played by film policy since 1964. The research proposal is consistent with international research and literature on the role of media in the construction of U+2018nationsU+2019, and is innovative in this field by integrating film policy.
A Nation Divided? Assessing and Analyzing Social Cohesion in South Africa KU Leuven
Housing the Nation Abroad. The Belgian Diplomatic Representation through Architecture, Furniture and Art, 1830-1939. KU Leuven
This research project aims to investigate the role attributed to architecture and art in the deployment of the Belgian diplomatic network from the moment of its foundation until the outbreak of the second world war. It will do so by focusing on the embassy building, an architectural typology which gradually emerged within the context of the nineteenth century transformation of national governance. The project questions whether cultural ...
Building for Belgium: Belgian Embassies in a Globalising World (1945-2020) KU Leuven
In recent decades, architectural historians have increasingly scrutinised the embassy building program of state actors. Framing an embassy to be the physical manifestation of the state, scholars have examined if and to what extent state actors have approached the commissioning of a purpose-built embassy as an opportunity to radiate nationhood abroad and express foreign policy stands and, more importantly, what kind of architecture they saw ...