Projects
(In)formal Diplomatic Networks and State Legitimation in the Premodern Islamic World: Mahmud Gawan (Bahmani vizier, 1463-1481) and the International Society. University of Antwerp
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 ...
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
Fighting crime and corruption? Police forces, army and society in Late Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. KU Leuven
Following the final defeat of Marc Antony and Cleopatra in 30 BC, Egypt became a province of the Roman Empire. Some traditions remained unbroken, but fundamental changes were made to the criminal justice system – including the police. In spite of what historians have long assumed, Egypt had a police system, although nothing like modern police. The evidence shows a wide spectrum of officials carrying out police work. The Roman rulers not only ...
Universalism vs. particularism in the transnational civil society of human rights organizations. Amnesty International USA and Human Rights Watch between cooperation and competition (1978-2008). University of Antwerp
Succesfully mainstreaming gender in Eu development cooperation and the role of the EU, the partner country and civil society. a best and worst ases analysis. Ghent University
The research seeks to which factors contribute to successful gender mainstreaming of EU development aid by analysing best and worst-case practices. The first hypothesis focuses on factors related to the preferences and intrests of the EU; the second hypothesis concentrates on internal political and goverance factors in the partner wountry; and the third hypothesis expolres the role of civil society.
The essential modeling challenges towards an optimized electricity generation system in a CO2-constrained society. KU Leuven
The research project studies the pictorial roots of the hermits’ representations in earlier Eastern and Western art, their textual sources and the interplay with their cultural context in the years 1250 to 1550 along four axes: (a) the hermits’ solitude between contemplation, vision and temptation, (b) hermits’ relationship to nature, culture and society, (c) hermitic life and the ideal of poverty and self-limitation, and (d) solitude and ...