Projects
Redeveloping the city. Urban transformation and heritagization after the secularization of religious houses in Belgian towns at the dawn of the modern age (1773/1796-1860). KU Leuven
Transmission and Transformation of European Church Types in China: The Churches of the Scheut Missions beyond the Great Wall, 1865-1955 KU Leuven
Sabbatical Brigitte Meijns: Church Reform and the Transformation of Society in the Low Countries (10th-12th C.) KU Leuven
During this sabbatical period I wish to fully focus on my research domain, i.e. the religious history of the high Middle Ages (10th -12th century). In a first phase (September-December 2022), the completion of three articles is planned: a historiographical article on reform within the secular clergy (for the Routledge Companion on Church Reform), a study on a little-known tenth-century treatise (Dialogus de statu sanctae ecclesiae) dealing ...
New Big Science in Belgium. Transformation and Adaptation of SCK-CEN 1991-2022 KU Leuven
The reorganization of SCK-CEN in 1991 was the starting point in the formation of a new profile for the organization. Although its political and financial support had decreased, and the public attitude had turned against nuclear power production, SCK•CEN was able to establish new academic and commercial partnerships. It accordingly diversified its research objectives. The new MYRRHA project, partly funded by the European Commission, focuses on ...
Transformation of Empire: Historiography, Ritual Communication, and Religion in the Later Roman Empire Ghent University
The project aims at achieving a deeper understanding of the fundamental transformation of late antique society by focusing on long-term changes in three areas: the way history was conceptualised fundamentally altered the relationship between ruler and ruled became increasingly ritualised and the christianisation is only part of a wider change in the way religion was conceived.
Understanding the development of business culture in India: a contemporary history analysis of the content and the impact of Business education KU Leuven
Management and business schools constitute a dense cross-border network of knowledge institutes that are responsible for training significant parts of populations. The theories, tools and methods taught at management schools have been diffused on a large scale and have impregnated different levels of social organisation. Management schools have played a significant role in the legitimation of new knowledges that are co-productive to the ...
Current questions: the shifting status of the present in history education in Belgium, France, Great-Britain and the Netherlands since 1945. KU Leuven
Creative anxiety. A conceptual history of creativity in education KU Leuven
Over the last few decades, creativity has become a central preoccupation in society. Its conceptualization as a universal force for harmony and economic prosperity is accompanied by the fear that it is insufficiently promoted, declining or even at risk of disappearing. The marriage between creativity and education, in particular, is portrayed as an unhappy one. This PhD argues that the anxiety surrounding creativity forms a constitutive ...
Gender Difference in the Gospel of John and in Naga Society in North-East India: A Study of the Projected Difference Between Men and Women with Special Attention to John 11:1-45 and to Naga-Folklore in Their Respective Social-Cultural Contexts KU Leuven
The question of the role of women in the Gospel of John has been widely debated after the ground breaking work of Raymond Brown (1975), “Roles of Women in the Fourth Gospel”. Since then, we have a number of scholarly researches done on the topic. For instance, Schneiders (1982); Seim (1987); Thiessen (1990); Conway (1999); Bierne (2003) etc deal with the prominent roles of Johannine women assigned with a “quasi-apostolic role” (Brown, 1975) ...