Projects
Kairós, or the Right Moment. Nachleben & Iconology KU Leuven
From antiquity to the present day, the Greek term kairós, which expresses the complex idea of ‘grasping the right moment’, travelled through art and literature. This project explores the artistic reception of this complex notion in the visual arts by bringing insights from Classical Reception Studies and Iconology to bear on how we can understand processes of visual transformation through time. As such, it is the very first ...
Caput Johannis in disco Iconology of the Johannesschüssel (1200-1550): object-function-medium with emphasis on the Low Countries. KU Leuven
Visual idea(l)s of Law & Justice: A legal, art & cultural historical inquiry into the iconology of Belgian law (1795-1914) Ghent University
This research scrutinzes the top down communication of the notions of law, as an ideal, and justice, as one of the means to reach that ideal, from the legal and political elite towards the population via art and iconography. The focus is on Belgian legal iconography during the long nineteenth century.
Caput Iohannis in Disco. Iconology of the Johannesschüssel (1200-1500) KU Leuven
The emergence of phonology within six generations Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Interactions between phonology and ortography in German word recognition Ghent University
The aim of the project is to investigate how phonology and orthography interact in word recognition. The following issues are pursued:(i) Is visual word recognition influenced by the sound structure of a word and how does this influence change over time?(ii) How do graphematic word representations develop?(iii) Does orthography influence spoken word recognition?
The relation between perception and production of L2 phoneme contrasts: a project in experimental phonology Ghent University
The project deals with the acquisition of phonological systems of a second language. When a learner acquires a new language, she has to learn to perceive and produce new phoneme contrasts. The porject aims to shed light on the nature of the relation between perception and production in the acquisition of new phoneme contrasts in a second language.