Projects

National and constitutional identity have recently gained prominence in the jurisprudence of many European constitutional courts, where these concepts are used to protect core national values against the introduction of EU-law. We believe this evolution is problematic, both from a philosophical and a legal point of view, as it rests on ill-defined concepts with an ambiguous legal status. Adopting an interdisciplinary methodology, this ...

Drawing on a social constructionist approach, this study explores institutional identity and professional identity struggles at the nexus between local and global expectations. The study proposes a view of reform of national universities as a re-creational project and argues for an exploratory investigation into experiences of early career national academics or Teaching Assistants (TAs). The study recommends that ...

This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – namely, the French salon and the neo-(Flemish) Renaissance dining room (or its gothic alternative). It will do so in relation to Belgium as a newly-created nation state within Europe and the process of creating a national identity. The primary research goal is to ...

When you think about war literature, the first things that cross your mind are the testimonies of soldiers who fought in the trenches. Yet, it might surprise you that WWI also marked a prolific period for female writing. Indeed, there are archives full of texts, impatiently waiting to be explored but overlooked by literary scholars. This is remarkable, since Italy developed a unique debate in 1914, when the country was not yet at war, ...