Projects
American maximalist fiction between global and local knowledge – Richard Powers, David Foster Wallace, andthe novel of information. University of Antwerp
Contemporary American fiction between local and global knowledge - Richard Powers, David Foster Wallace, and the novel of information. University of Antwerp
Medieval Theories of the Powers of the Soul (ca. 1255–1315) KU Leuven
Philosophers of the thirteenth and fourteenth century generally acknowledged that we differ from non-living beings by virtue of being alive. So, there must be something, they reasoned, that we have that inanimate beings lack. They held that this was the soul. All living beings, plants, animals, and human beings, have souls, on their view. According to thirteenth- and fourteenth-century thinkers, a soul is a kind of structure that arranges the ...
Powers and Causes in Thirteenth- and Fourteenth-Century Thought: the Metaphysics of Causation from Thomas Aquinas to John Buridan. KU Leuven
Aristotle’s “powers” theory of causation is built up on the intuitive idea that when the cue ball knocks the eight ball into the pocket, the cue ball has a power to produce the sinking of the eight ball. On Aristotle’s theory, to cause means to exercise an active power. This project will investigate the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century scholastic tradition inspired by this Aristotelian account, aiming to provide a historical study of ...
Authority and auctoritas. Italian poems on contemporary wars as an interface of powers (1530-1630) KU Leuven
This thesis investigates the interaction between different kinds of authority in Italian, narrative heroic poems, written between 1530 and 1630, on contemporary Habsburg wars in Europe.
The analysed corpus consists of approximately forty poems, that concern the siege of Tunis (1535), the Guelders wars, (1542-3), the Smalcaldic conflict (1546-7), the war of Cyprus (1570-71), and the military campaign in the Low Countries commanded by ...
Otherworldly Powers? Narrative Functions of the Supernatural in Flemish and Congolese Literature before and after Congo’s Independence (1945-1975) Ghent University
Between 1945 and 1975, magical powers, curses and transcendent visions played a decisive role in Flemish literature about Congo, shaping the narrative and evoking different worldviews. Impossible phenomena in science fiction or fantastic literature have similar functions, but, unlike these genres, the supernatural elements in the Flemish literature about Congo have a religious undertone. This is explained by the strong missionary presence of ...
Testing legitimacy and proportionality of patrimonial protection of vulnerable adults: a comparative legal study on administration and enduring powers of attorney. KU Leuven
Criminal investigation powers in the post-conviction phase. KU Leuven
Who has the power? An empirical investigation of the implications of a retailer-manufacturer power conflict situation. KU Leuven
The days of dominant manufacturers dictating the game to obedient retailers are long gone. Today, the two parties can be considered equal when it comes to resisting pressure during negotiations. When negotiations between retailers and manufacturers turn sour and end up in a conflict, both parties can decide to remove, or delist, the manufacturers’ brand(s) from the retailers’ assortment. Such conflict delistings are ...