Projects
Filming memory / Filming my family. Intergenerational trauma and prosthetic memory of WWII in post-Soviet society KU Leuven
This PhD research in the arts analyses the role of documentary cinema in the creation of 'prosthetic memories': the ways in which persons 'remember' events they have not personally experienced. My research focuses on prosthetic memories of WWII in Post-Soviet society through cinema and proposes a novel theoretical and practical framework for researching prosthetic memory through first- person documentaries (films in which the filmmaker's ...
New insights into the early medieval society in Northern-Francia from the beginning of the 5th to the end of the 7th century, based on the research results of the Merovingian cemetery at Broechem (B, province of Antwerp). Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Dispute resolution in Ptolemaic Egypt: adjudicative and consensual strategies towards order in classical society KU Leuven
This doctoral dissertation aims to expand our knowledge of the socio-legal and administrative side of the Ptolemaic society (332-30 BC) through a study of the Ptolemaic petitioning system. Petitions are official documents through which (groups of) individuals address special requests to the authorities, mostly in relation to interpersonal conflicts: family disputes, official misconduct, violent crime, theft, etcetera. They constitute one of ...
Time-varying vibro-acoustic digital twins towards a sustainable society. KU Leuven
The current European energy crisis has re-established the importance of accelerating our transition towards a more sustainable society and industry. The sustainable design and monitoring of vehicles and machines is an important contributor to this transition. To improve sustainability, a delicate balance between the conflicting criteria of health, profitability and environment needs to be found. One of the most important health considerations ...
Explaining prediction models to adress data science ethics in business and society. University of Antwerp
Esilience and SOlidarity in intercultural encounters between displaced migrants and host society members: An ego-centered NETwork approach KU Leuven
This proposal develops and tests a comprehensive conceptual framework that examines social network configurations facilitating adjustment of displaced migrants to receiving societies.
Towards a child-driven understanding of citizenship: children as co-researchers in search of their place in society. Ghent University
Over the past decades, the question of children’s status as democratic citizens has become a subject of debate and a topic of research in (inter)national practice, policy and academia. Within the existing body of literature, research on citizenship is merely confined to educational settings, focusing on children’s political socialisation in function of their adult-future. As such, the debate on children’s citizenship remains to a large extent ...
Adorno as a Critical Post-foundationalist. Rethinking the Political Character of Society KU Leuven
The paradigm of post-foundationalism holds that the foundations of our social reality are contingent, temporary, supplementary and never final or conclusive. These foundations are the product of a moment of decision or institution and always remain contestable, unstable and replaceable. As our social reality is without final ground, it can be politicised on the most fundamental level. Its contingency opens a space for possible alternatives to ...