Projects
Models of Textual Communities and Digital Palaeography of the Dead Sea Scrolls. KU Leuven
The present project will make full use of the unique potential offered by the Dead Sea Scrolls to enquire after a micro-society in antiquity organized around a common understanding of texts#a textual community. Analyses of the scrolls# contents indicate heterogeneity and religious diversity within the collection of texts on different levels, which have either been attributed to diachronic developments within early Judaism, or have been ...
Literature and Pornography: a textual and contextual study of Dutch novels in the 1960s and 1970s. KU Leuven
The interaction between pornography and modern fiction has rarely been examined in Dutch literary studies. The present proposal seeks to remedy this by focusing on a corpus of pornographic novels from the 60s and 70s written by renowned authors (Ferron, Geeraerts, Heeresma en Krijgelmans) who represent different forms of literature. The aim is twofold: (1) to contextualize these pornographic texts and determine their institutional position in ...
Transnational collaboration in contemporary refugee literature: authorship, textual effects, comparisons KU Leuven
This project studies the conceptual, textual and political implications of collaborative writing in a transnational context, i.e. involving authors with different cultural and linguistic backgrounds. It focuses on the increasingly prominent genre of refugee literature, in which a considerable number of recent publications are co-written by refugees and other authors, often (Western) professional writers or journalists who are not necessarily ...
Using textual analysis to assess the materiality of risk management in financial reporting Vlerick Business School
Using textual analysis to assess the materiality of risk factor disclosures in company's financial reports KU Leuven
The increasing amount of corporate failures in recent years has spurred organisations to manage their risks more effectively. One approach that has gained prominence during this period is enterprise risk management (ERM), a process designed to identify and control business risks and ensure they are consistent with corporate strategies and risk appetite. Several surveys on ERM practices highlight the CFO’s primary role and ownership ...
Silent voices: A Digital Study of the Herne Charterhouse as a Textual Community (ca. 1350-1400). University of Antwerp
The Life of a Buddhist Manuscript: The Mūlasarvastivadin Dīrghāgama Manuscript, its Influence on Buddhist Textual Production, and the Development of Canonical Buddhist Material in the First Millennium of the Common Era Ghent University
The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the historical figure known as the Buddha Gautama. This manuscript is the only surviving witness of this textual collection as it was transmitted by the Mūlasarvāstivāda Buddhist tradition, one of the three major Buddhist traditions from which the ...
Deep Learning for Generating Template Pictorial and Textual Representations KU Leuven
Nowadays technology permits that we communicate not only by using language, but also by expressing thoughts and facts in other modalities, among which the visual modality plays a primordial role. We witness a need to automatically translate between language and visual information. More specifically, we aim to develop technology that automatically describes video with language utterances, and that visualizes or imagines the content of language ...
Poetic paratexts in medieval Greek manuscripts: enactment and reflection of Byzantine textual culture Ghent University
This research project constitutes of an analysis of metrical paratexts in Byzantine manuscripts, intending to acquire a deeper understanding of medieval book culture. This implies an investigation of how these texts (colophons, dedications, notitions) express the interests of textual communities, and how they justify patronage. A central issue is the way in which these texts regulate reading practices, both on a pragmatical and on a moral and ...