Projects
Celebrating gender and neglecting history: The history of gender representation in Moroccan primary school textbooks for colonial period onwards (1912-2022) KU Leuven
This research focuses on the history of gender representation in Moroccan textbooks and manuals for primary school grades within a broad chronological period (from the colonial era 1912 to date).The present research main objective is to investigate how gender was represented in primary school textbooks at three points in time: the French and Spanish colonial period, the immediate postcolonial era, and the present day, in terms of the visual ...
Periodization in Literary History: A Computational Model of the History of Dutch Literature. University of Antwerp
The Normativity of the History: Theological Truth and Tradition in the Tension between Church History tematic Theology. KU Leuven
This story may provide proof. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond Ghent University
‘This story may provide proof’. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond. Ghent University
Combining intellectual history with material philology, this project studies the authority attributed to
histories in Syriac excerpt collections (6-10th c). It uses unstudied material to analyse the
intertwining of identity formation and historical narratives, to provide the first cross-cultural study of
late antique excerpt collections, and to study the changing status of historical knowledge compared
to other types ...
Construction History, Above and Beyond. What History Can Do for Construction History Ghent University
Since 1985, Construction History is internationally recognized as a distinct field within history, situated on the interface between the history of engineering and the history of architecture. Antoine Picon, historian of architecture and technology, argued in 2006 that construction history “offers a unique opportunity to rethink the relations between technology and culture." This proposal starts from the observation that this opportunity has ...
Commissioned history and the confluence of history and jurisdiction. A comparative and meta-historical analysis of four government-appointed historical commissions in Europe after 1989 Ghent University
Since the end of the Cold War many countries have turned to historical commissions as a way to deal with the past. This project comparatively analyses four post-1989 European government-appointed historical commissions (the German U+2018Enquete-kommisionU+2019, the Swiss U+2018Bergier-commissionU+2019, the Dutch Srebrenica-inquiry, and the Belgian Lumumba-commission) which are from an empirical and a meta-historical perspective. I focus on ...
Time-Travelling Boxes? French History Comics as a New Way of Considering History. Ghent University
Lately, the assumption that comics are only made for entertainment and lack historical objectivity has tended to be obscured by a new function: historical fiction and nonfiction comics have established themselves as a laboratory for reflection on practices and meanings of historical writing, and have become both a phenomenon and a symbol. A phenomenon, for in France, since the 1990s, historical comics have been reaching a growing readership ...
Modern time-consciousness: philosophy and politics of history - Leo Strauss on history and truth in the relation of theory and praxis. KU Leuven
The first part of the project will clarify a set of problems centering on the ...