Projects
SWVG-EF31-evaluation of an Integrated Wide Reception . KU Leuven
In a number of cases the public employment service of Flanders (the VDAB) calls a person “not counselable”. Jobseekers are given this label when it is felt that due to medical, mental, psychological, psychiatric and/or social problems people are no longer employable on the labor market, neither in the normal economic circuit nor in the social economy or an unpaid job. The VDAB has ceased job counseling for people labeled as "not counselable" ...
Historical-critical Study of the New Testament and its Reception History in the Early Church KU Leuven
My research covers two fields that both have to do with the study of the New Testament. The first is the historical-critical study of the New Testament. In this respect, three aspects should be mentioned: study of the Synoptic Problem (i.e., the relationship between the three synoptic gospels), specifically, the defence of the Two-Document Hypothesis and the reconstruction of Q, the source of Matthew and Luke for the double tradition ...
Eastbound: The circulation and reception of translations of Dutch literature in the German language area, 1850 - 1990 KU Leuven
Eastbound aims to give insight into the complex mechanism of bringing literature into circulation in a transnational context. In a first step the project investigates the translation flows of literature from the Netherlands and Flanders to the German language area between 1850 and 1990 from a macro perspective based on bibliographic data. This gives i. a. insights into which authors were translated, when and by whom. Based on this initial ...
MEXICAN NON-FICTION: ANALYSIS OF URGENT NARRATIVES OF THE CONTEMPORARY CRÓNICA AND STUDY OF THE RECEPTION AND TRANSLATION OF THE WORKS OF CHRONICLERS JUAN VILLORO AND FERNANDA MELCHOR KU Leuven
Over the last 30 years, Mexico has been experiencing social phenomena and natural disasters that have placed an international focus on its internal situation. These events are recounted by many Mexican writers who rework and reshape each issue from their different perspectives to create a unique product named crónica. The crónica is a hybrid literary product that combines essay and reportage, and it is arguably one of the least studied ...
Reading Mickey: Mapping the Transnational Reception of a Children's Magazine Ghent University
Disney’s Mickey Mouse character is a global icon, transcending generations, cultures, and media. ‘Reading Mickey’ studies the domestication and reception of the Italian and French Mickey magazine from 1932 until 1968. Unlike the animated movies and albums, these magazines have not yet been fully examined, and even less so from a comparative perspective. These magazines present an opportunity to compare practices of adaptation, appropriation, ...
Goethe the Festive Ruin: Philosophical Reception of a German Phenomenon from Simmel to Blumenberg KU Leuven
Sabbatical Gert Partoens: Completion of two edition projects related to the early medieval reception of Augustine's exegesis of Paul + Contribution to the scientific description of a series of medieval homiliaria in the Florentine Biblioteca Laurenzia KU Leuven
I will devote most of my time to the completion of two edition projects, each of which will result in a volume in the Corpus Christianorum (Brepols): (1) (in collaboration with Dr. Nicolas De Maeyer) the second volume of the Collectio ex opusculis sancti Augustini in epistolas Pauli of Beda Venerabilis (672/3-735); (2) the first part of the voluminous commentary on the letter to the Romans in the Expositio in epistolas beati Pauli ex operibus ...
An early witness to the ‘construction’ of (Semi-)Pelagianism?Critical edition, content analysis, and reception study of the Ps.-Augustinian Hypomnesticon KU Leuven
Pomerius’ De vita contemplativa (CPL 998): text-critical study and analysis of the Late Antique and Medieval reception of a 6th-century treatise on the ascetic-contemplative life KU Leuven
De vita contemplativa (VC) is a treatise on the ascetic-contemplative life written by the 5th/6th-century cleric Pomerius of Arles, a central figure in the intellectual life of Late Antique Gaul. In essence, VC teaches clerics how they can reconcile their active, pastoral life with the ideal of the contemplative, ascetic life. Pomerius’ treatise is a key text from Late Antique Christian literature: it survives in over 230 manuscripts (an ...