Projects
Official Law and Social Meaning: Same-Sex Marriage as an Instance of Legal Pluralism. University of Antwerp
GIStorical Antwerp II. The historical city as empirical lab for urban studies using high-resolution social maps. University of Antwerp
The social dynamics behind the transition to farming in the Low Countries (5th millennium BC): from pottery technology to farmer-forager interactions Ghent University
The Low Countries have an international reputation as an interesting case study area for the spread of agriculture among foraging populations. Over the course of the 5th millennium BC, foragers in N Belgium and The Netherlands adopted three major technologies through contact with early farming populations: pottery production, followed by animal husbandry and crop cultivation. To date, however, the question remains which farming populations ...
With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
With theatre he urged people to remember their duties. Social Criticism in the Seventeenth-Century Theatre of the Low Countries. University of Antwerp
U+201CDecline and fall?U+201D Social and cultural dynamics in the Low Countries in the Late Roman empire (AD 270-450). Ghent University
Since GibbonU+2019s Decline and fall of the Roman Empire (1776), the late Roman period is known as a period of decline. In recent decades, this view is debated. Our researchaims at studying this era from a modern vision upon material culture. The immiagrtions which where put negatively from a Roman point of view, will de considered from an angle of new social and culturele formations.
JUST BONDING: Filiation in Private International Law between Biology, Law, and Society. University of Antwerp
The “Auxiliaries of the Apostolate” (Auxilium): a 20th-century Network of Belgian Catholic Lay Women and their Role in Societal and Ecclesiastical Change (1940-1977) KU Leuven
Lay women of the Auxiliaries of the Apostolate (Auxilium) combined a
Christian vocation with a professional life at all levels of society, from
the presidency of the Christian Women Workers' League (KAV) to
local community work,. Their vows to the bishop, however, required
them to be discreet about belonging to this international community,
an unrecognized network of likeminded women striving to transform
both ...