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Theory of literature, trauma and cultural memory Ghent University

Gert Buelens
Department of English

Dr. Ilka Saal (University of Richmond, VA) visits the UGent research group "Literature and trauma" to work conceptually in the area of literature, trauma and cultural memory. She has expertise in integrating models (Butler, Assmann) in such a way that a basis is laid for the examination of how collective and structural forms of trauma are represented in literature.

Subsidiary social provision before the welfare state. Political theory and social policy in nineteenth-century Belgium KU Leuven

Jan De Maeyer
KADOC Research, KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society, Centre for Political Research

This study is about the origins of the Belgian welfare state; more specifically, about both the policy origins and the ideological origins of the Belgian welfare state. The historical origins of the Belgian modern welfare state are often traced back to the introduction of social insurances in national legislation in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. However, this legislation only confirmed a system ...

A Cultural Psychological Approach to Acculturation: Developing tools to capture psychological acculturation and exploring the micro-processes that account for cultural fit in intercultural interactions. KU Leuven

Jozefien De Leersnyder
Social and Cultural Psychology
The current research is part of a bigger research program in which I further develop and empirically test a cultural psychological approach to acculturation. This approach centers on the notion of ‘cultural fit’ – i.e., the extent to which an individual’s pattern of psychological functioning is similar to the typical pattern of others in the socio-cultural context. In the coming two years, I intend to focus on two of the four research ...

An Archaeology of Comparative Colonialism: material culture, institutions, and cultural change in Malta, c. AD 1530–1910 Ghent University

Wim De Clercq
Department of Archaeology

The project aims to produce a novel, material culture-led narrative of daily life in Malta, AD 1530-1910. Archaeological analyses of artefacts and space shall be integrated with archival evidence to produce a social interpretation, which shall be viewed through the prisms of colonial institutions and identity formation. The project culminates in a diachronic comparison of colonialism under three ruling groups.

“Decline and fall?” Social and cultural dynamics in the Low Countries in the Late Roman empire (AD 270-450). Ghent University

Wim De Clercq
Department of Archaeology

Since Gibbon’s Decline and fall of the Roman Empire (1776), the late Roman period is known as a period of decline. In recent decades, this view is debated. Our researchaims at studying this era from a modern vision upon material culture. The immiagrtions which where put negatively from a Roman point of view, will de considered from an angle of new social and culturele formations.

STEAM, an Engine for UNA Europa Outlining and anchoring relevant STEAM-practices for Una Europa and its cultural and creative ecosystems KU Leuven

Bart Van Looy
Department of Management, Strategy and Innovation (main work address Leuven), Cultural Studies Research Group, Inter-Actions Research Unit, Genk Campus, Archaeology, Leuven, Materials and Constructions

The aim of the project is to outline a university wide STEAM approach by developing a blueprint or guidebook on how to conceive STEAM practices, both in terms of education and third mission activities. Furthermore, the project aims to develop a set of STEAM indicators, situated at the level of HEIs and the eco-systems in which they are embedded. Applying this framework and validating the envisaged indicators with Una Europa partners will ...

Flemish pottery and stone reference collection (FLEPOSTORES): a "hands-on" and digital open access reference database for geological materials in archaeology and cultural heritage Ghent University

Wim De Clercq
Department of Archaeology

FLEPOSTORES will be a Ghent University based Flemish reference system for researchers and students working in archaeology, geology and cultural heritage studies. Further building on existing reference collections within Ghent University and with 3 external partners, the database will offer an online open access platform and a hands-on collection of worked natural stone and pottery, from prehistoric till pre-industrial times (ca. ...

Gibala and the East Mediterranean. A multidisciplinary research project investigating cultural interaction between Tell Tweini and the East Mediterranean in the bronze and Iron Ages. KU Leuven

Karel Van Lerberghe
Ancient History, Leuven, Arabic Studies, Leuven
The coastal area of Syria has always been a crossroads for the exchange of goods and ideas due to its strategic situation between the main civilizations of the time: the Aegean, Mesopotamia and Anatolia. Economic interaction between the palace economies of Crete and the Levant is demonstrated as early as the 3rd millennium B.C.E. and Sargon, king of Akkad (ca. 2.300 B.C.E.) claims that all countries between the Persian Gulf (Dilmun) and Magan on ...

Contested past: the representation of the past and the construction of cultural memory in the Croatian, Bosnian and Serbian literature of the 1990s Ghent University

Stef Craps
Department of Languages and Cultures, Department of Literary Studies, Department of Slavonic and East-European studies, Department of English

The aim of this project is to analyse the scope and role of the post-Yugoslav prose of the 1990s in the transformation of the 'cultural memory' in Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.

Poetry and cultural politics in Flanders in the nineteenth century: Theodoor van Ryswyck (1811-1849) and literary romanticism in Antwerp. University of Antwerp

Piet Couttenier
Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)
This project focuses on the function of literature in the modern nation-building process from a literary perspective. The subject of research is the poetry of Theodoor Van Ryswyck: an important figure in the romantic school of Antwerp and a transition figure of a Belgian to a Flemish cultural nationalism. He's the author of a various and, with respect to the content, predominantly political oeuvre. The methodological approach of this research is ...