Projects
Omnivore paradoxes in history. Food traditions and novelties in Europe since 1800. Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The Presence of Classics in Early Modern Book History (PreCEM) KU Leuven
Wounded by the past: history, memory and transitional justice in post-conflict Peru (1980-present). A metahistorical analysis. Ghent University
This research will focus on how different relations to historical time and can provoke tensions in dealing with the past after a violent conflict. I will study the case of the indigenous survivors of the Peruvian civil war (1980-2000) and their relation to NGOs that play a key role in transitional justice practices.
How to (re)write the past: thinking about history in American avant-garde poetry Ghent University
This postdoc. project investigates how American avant-garde poets (William Carlos Williams, Charles Olson, Susan Howe) have thought about the nature and the representation of the past. ItU+2019s a commonplace that twentieth-century American historians, in contrast to their European colleagues, have devoted litte attention to the idea of history. This project traces an American meta-historical debate in the work of three U+2018poet ...
A Theology of History and Doctrinal Development According to J.H. Newman and Y. Congar KU Leuven
Building Buddhist Heritage in Postwar Japan: The Silk Road between History and Memory at Yakushiji Temple Ghent University
This project analyzes the interactions between religion and cultural heritage in twentieth century Japan as a venue to investigate the legacy of imperialism in the construction of modern ideas and images of Buddhism, and to explore the possibility of building transnational forms of identity, memory, and community. It focuses on a case study of a religious community, Yakushiji temple, where the same moral discourse of a spiritual connection ...
Negotiating solidarity. The shared history and heritage of Belgian civil society and postwar Muslim migration KU Leuven
This project, intertwining historical and anthropological approaches, critically analyzes and evaluates the interactions of multifaceted postwar Flemish/Belgian civil society with the country's Muslim communities of Moroccan and Turkish descent. An in-depth understanding of the multifold exchanges emerging since the 1960s between the country’s social movements and organizations, NGOs, religious institutes… and the growing communities of ...
History of development of the Buddhist monastic structure and rules: influence of Jainism Ghent University
In this research, the historical role of Jainism in the history of development of the Buddhist monastic structure and rules will be clarified through a thorough text-historical, philological and systematic analysis of the monastic texts of Buddhism and Jainism.