Projects
The reception of patristic sources in a 9th-century commentary on Romans (Paris Bibl. Nat. Lat. 11574). An analysis of its position in the Carolingian debate on grace, free will, and predestination KU Leuven
The present project centres on an unpublished anonymous Carolingian commentary on Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, preserved in a single 9th-century manuscript, Paris Bibl. Nat. Lat. 11574. The commentary is a compilation, consisting of fragments from the writings of a wide array of patristic authors, including Augustine, Ambrosiaster, Origen, and Pelagius. Modern scholarly interest in such commentaries is generally limited to their value for ...
PINPOINT - clinical Phenotypes of the INfraPatellar fat pad and Optimized Interventions for kNee osTeoarthritis Ghent University
PINPOINT aims to underpin clinical (i.e., biomechanical and/or inflammatory) subtypes of the infra-patellar fat pad, their role in the onset and progression of knee osteoarthritis (OA)and implications
for the design of optimised and targeted multi-modal interventions of knee OA.
Multidirectional Memory and the Retrofitting of Trauma in Pat Barker and W. G. Sebald Ghent University
This project examines the articulation of traumatic memory in contemporary literature which retrofits current definitions of trauma to twentieth-century wars. Drawing on the conceptual model for thinking across traumatic histories developed by Michael Rothberg, it seeks a fuller understanding of the ways in which representations of traumatic memories circulate and interact in the work of the canonical trauma writers Pat Barker en W. G. ...
POPCAT POLICY: Development of a municipal (stray) cat policy guide and 5 lecture series on responsible municipal (stray) cat population policy. Ghent University
In order to strengthen the (stray) cat population policy of cities and municipalities guidelines will be developed that will support them in managing colony cats, neighbourhood stakeholder communication and monitoring of issues at stake. This project aims to provide support by identifying good practices of catching, releasing and caring for stray cats in the professional field and by researching and bringing the literature together in a ...
Out of the past. A multi-methodological research project on the role and representation of the colonial past in contemporary news coverage: Africa on Belgium and vice versa. Ghent University
This project studies the role that globalization processes play in the everyday professional lives and local production practices of the online and print press in Kinshasa. By using a bottom-up approach, the role and implications of contemporary and historical key processes are identified, like the shifts due to the arrival of online media and interactions with global actors.
Out of the Past. A multi-methodological research project on the role and representation of the colonial past in contemporary news coverage: Africa on Belgium and vice versa. Ghent University
Today, we hear the echoes of the past. This research project is interested in the colonial history of
Europe in the African countries and its ongoing aftermath. In particular, we focus on ex-colonizer
Belgium and its former African colonies the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda and Burundi to
trace if and how a post-colonial debate and 'living' memory is present in contemporary media, with
a ...
Out of the past. A multi-methodological research project on the role and representation of the colonial past in contemporary news coverage: Africa on Belgium and vice versa. Ghent University
This project wants to critically investigate if and how colonial constructions and discourses are present in contemporary representations of former colonies (Congo, Rwanda and Burundi) in Belgian news reporting and vice versa. Drawing on a comparative design of a content analysis, a production analysis and an audience research, we examine the role of a shared colonial past.
Population dynamics of sea bass in the Belgian part of the North Sea - Part 2 Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
How big is the sea bass population in the Belgian Part of the North Sea? What migration pattern does sea bass exhibit? What is the composition (age distribution and age/length relation) of this population? What is the carrying capacity of the North Sea area for sea bass? Project "Zeebaars2", a continuation of an earlier project, collects biological data and uses tagging of individual fish to ...
Having a Past and Being a Past. Husserl's Phenomenology of Remembrance KU Leuven
In this project I am developing a phenomenological theory of memory by way of a thorough critique of representationalism, grounded in an engagement with Edmund Husserl’s heretofore-neglected writings on memory. Husserl’s conceptions of intentionality and time-consciousness, as well as his stringent critiques of representationalism in perception, can enable us to theorize the temporal absence that recollection exhibits. This project seeks to ...