Projects
Sabbatical Joris Vlieghe: Education of the Senses + KU Leuven
I want to devote this period entirely to further developing one of my central research lines, Education of the Senses. I want to do this through three stays of one month each at a foreign research institution. On the one hand, I aim to theoretically deepen the foundations of this project through a stay in Poland (Polish Naval Academy in Gdynia), where I want to think and write together with Piotr Zamojski, with whom I have worked closely over ...
When to lose one’s senses? Semantic loss vs polysemy sustenance in the lexicon of English KU Leuven
Semantic change is commonly recognized to follow an A > A/B (> B) trajectory. That is, semantic change always results in polysemy between old and new senses at first; only later and in only some cases does this lead to the eventual loss of an older sense. Whereas the general mechanism of semantic extension (A > A/B) has received ample attention, the possible next step, semantic loss (> B), is still ...
From Truth to Ecology Reassessing the History of the Senses, 1250-1750 KU Leuven
This project investigates the paradigm shift from truth to ecology that occurred in perception theories from 1250 to 1750 – in the period, namely, from the adoption of an Aristotelian curriculum by European universities to the Encyclopédie. In the course of the Early Modern age, I argue, the time-honoured Aristotelian claim that the senses provide insight into the real properties of bodies was replaced by a quite different understanding of ...
Multiple identities and shared senses of belonging? A qualitative longitudinal analysis of children's identity formation in a super-diverse city. University of Antwerp
Multiple identities and shared senses of belonging? A qualitative longitudinal analysis of children's identity formation in a super-diverse city. University of Antwerp
No rest for the wicked: Death, the Senses and Emotion in the Eighty Years War KU Leuven
Through diseases, war and religious violence, the experience of death was omnipresent in the sixteenth-century Low Countries. At the same time, the Reformation deeply divided lay believers on theological conceptions of death, afterlife and the Last Judgement, as well as on the appropriateness of traditional sensory funerary rituals. Studies on theological treatises and liturgical texts in the Holy Roman Empire have documented how ...
Printed organic photovoltaics for energy harvesting in smart contact lenses Ghent University
Smart contact lenses (SCL), composed of electronics integrated into traditional contact lenses, will greatly contribute to the next generation of wearable and biomedical devices. However, their small size and close contact with the body challenge their potential. Power autonomy is an issue owing to the lack of long-lasting batteries that are small and flexible enough to be imperceptible by the user. A solution to this issue is to integrate ...
Photoalignment templates for chiral liquid crystal lenses and photonic components Ghent University
Recently it has become possible to produce diffractive components with very high efficiency based on inhomogeneous thin liquid crystal layers. The alignment of the liquid crystal is defined by illumination of a photo-sensitive layer with polarized blue or UV light. In this project we want to explore the possibilities of photo-alignment to obtain novel photonic components. We will use optical interference of blue laser light to fabricate ...
Printed organic photovoltaics for energy harvesting in smart contact lenses KU Leuven
Smart contact lenses (SCL), composed of electronics integrated into traditional contact lenses, will greatly contribute to the next generation of wearable and biomedical devices. However, their small size and close contact with the body challenge their potential. Power autonomy is an issue owing to the lack of long-lasting batteries that are small and flexible enough to be imperceptible by the user. A solution to this issue is to integrate ...