Projects
Marriage Migration: Integration, Identity and Empowerment among Muslim Women in Belgian Society Ghent University
When marriage migrants leave their familiar environment they face the double challenge of building partner and family relationships and integrating into a new society. Regardless if this new place is a better one, it still involves struggles and difficulties. Especially for female marriage migrants, family and kinship ground the social order and form a crucial network of support. Hence the role of the immediate new family, kinship ties and ...
Harmful cultural practices: a critical analysis of cross-cultural discourses and moral understandings of gender, sexuality and embodiment. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
No world without the stars. Prophecy and society in the Spanish- Habsburg Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt(1560s-1640s) KU Leuven
This project will study the interaction of astrology with politics and religion in the Habsburg Netherlands (1560s-1640s). Special attention will be paid to the cross-fertilization of Dutch astrological cultures and traditions with those of neighboring territories and to the general position of astrology within the framework of the Dutch Revolt (1566-1648). The project will analyze prognostic works, produced within the cities of Antwerp, ...
'No world without the stars': Astrology and Society in the SpanishHabsburg Netherlands during the Dutch Revolt (1560s-1640s). University of Antwerp
The foundations of the Tiantai Tiantai Buddhism in the mountains: Identification Techniques in the creation and re-establishment of a Buddhist order Chinese on a ridge. Ghent University
The Buddhist Tiantai school was different from all other schools of Chinese Buddhism, as it remained confined
to the Tiantai Mountains, while other schools spread over all of China. I will demonstrate that the Tiantai
school's dedication to this area resulted from the devotion to the school founder, Zhiyi, who chose the Tiantai
Mountains as the site for his school.
The authority of the bishop in the Post-Carolingian and Pre-Reform Age (c.900-c.1050). An inquiry into the lives and deeds of episcopal leaders in Western Francia and into the nature of their authority (Church province of Rheims). KU Leuven
Changing conceptions of the good. MacIntyre and Kierkegaard on the virtues and the good life. University of Antwerp
A critical analysis of the methodology of evolutionary explanations for the emergence and possible functions of art Ghent University
Since the last couple of decades, cultural and social phenomena such as art, religion, language and morality, are increasingly studied from an evolutionary point of view. However, a number of difficulties arise when a biological theory is applied to this subject matter. The goal of this research, with art as a case study, is to map pitfalls and opportunities, in order to contribute to the study of these phenomena, as well as to the expansion ...