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Bioethics past, present and future: a personal and narrative perspective from the European continent KU Leuven
The contribution is a personal and narrative review of the history of bioethics in the European continent. After having presented some historical evolutions and the regulatory framework in bioethics in Europe, the main concepts of the bioethical debate are presented: personhood, physician-patient relationship, solidarity, human dignity. The way how bioethics functions on the international and intercontinental scene is also debated.
Challenging past and present Olympic narratives in Japan Ghent University
Mediating past, present and future of D.R.Congo's historical narratives on art in a Global South dialogue University of Antwerp
This special volume aims to bring to readers some of the main themes, discussions, research topics, dialogues and exchanges that were central to the symposium Mediating Past, Present and Future: Historical Narratives and 20th/ 21st Century Art Dialogues with Global South Experiences. This took place at the Académie des Beaux Arts in Kinshasa from the 18th to the 21st of January 2016.
Flemish students’ historical reference knowledge and narratives of the Belgian national past at the end of secondary education KU Leuven
© 2017 Sheehan and Davison. Since the early nineteenth century, western governments have expected history education to play a vital role in the formation of a national identity and the pursuit of national cohesion, by fostering shared knowledge and a shared (master)narrative of the national past. This article reports on a qualitative study that examines which narratives young adults construct about their national past, to what extent those ...
Rethinking the margins with André Schwarz-Bart: from 'The last of the just' and 'A woman named solitude' to the posthumous narratives University of Antwerp
Fifty years after his Goncourt Prize-winning début, and three years after the authors death, a first posthumous novel, LEtoile du matin (Morning Star) was published by André Schwarz-Bart and his wife and co-author, Simone Schwarz-Bart. Their respective roles in the writing process have never been transparent, and the lack of interviews, as well as limited correspondence, keep this situation unchanged today. A new volume of their unfinished ...
Trauma and Narrative Techniques in Contemporary Irish Fiction KU Leuven
After highlighting the complexities of the concepts of “Ireland”, “narrative” and “trauma” we find that a too close relation between family, religion and politics is at the heart of trauma. Narrative is its opposite, as it can release the protagonists from their obsession. After giving a survey of trauma novels in contemporary Irish novels since 1990 we look more closely at two masterworks, Seamus Deane’s Reading in the Dark (1996) and Anne ...