Projects
The (un)told Mission History of the Sisters of the Society of Jesus Mary Joseph (jmj) in India: A History of Identity Formation of Missionary Generations Shifting between Dutch Legacy and Indian Inculturation (1904 – 1969) KU Leuven
Beliefs and practices of prospective history teachers on the relationship between past and present in history education. KU Leuven
The History of Exegesis and Marginal Books of the New Testament: The Patristic Reception History of 1 Peter KU Leuven
“Tout le Congo est un chantier”. Re-assessing Congo’s architectural history from 1918 till 1975 through a construction history approach Ghent University
Ever since the first article on colonial architecture in Congo appeared in 1986, a substantial amount of research has been conducted on the topic, focusing on late 19th century prefabricated metal structures, on the introduction of modernist ideas in design and planning since the 1920s, on the emergence of 1950s tropical modernism and more recently, on “nation building”-campaigns under Mobutu’s reign. Over the years, the perspective of ...
The History of Exegesis and “Marginal” Books of the New Testament: The Patristic Reception History of 1 Peter KU Leuven
This project revolves around the volume of Novum Testamentum Patristicum that I have been assigned by the editors of the series, which will contain a thorough assessment of, and commentary on, the Patristic reception of 1 Peter 2:11-5:14 up to the eight century. It is an enquiry into the nature of the authority assigned to a marginal New Testament letter — 1 Peter — in Late Antiquity. As such, it builds upon the results of my recently ...
The Handmaiden’s Balancing Act? The (Re)Presentation of East European Literatures in Weltliteraturgeschichte and Younger ‘World Literary History’ Ghent University
In 1877 the Austro-Hungarian Hugó Meltzl warned his colleagues: “As every unbiased man of letters knows, modern literary history, as generally practiced today, is nothing but an ancilla historiae politicae [‘handmaiden of political history’]”. At the time, Europe was dominated by the five powers of the ‘Vienna System’ (after the 1815 Congress of Vienna): England, France, Prussia, Austria and Russia, whose respective ‘national’ languages, ...
Neither visitors, nor colonial victims: Muslims in Interwar Europe and European Trans-cultural History KU Leuven
No comprehensive attempt has yet been made to cover the history of Muslims in interwar Europe. Historians of the modern Middle East underestimate the role of interwar Muslim actors in writing a history of Islam, whereas historians of Europe underestimate their role in intra-European developments. Existing works focus either on the nineteenth-century Muslim travelers, diplomats, students and residents or on the later post-World War II influx ...
Archives for the economic history of Belgium (19th-20th centuries): unlocking the historical records and data of companies and stock exchanges for research in economics, finance and business (ARCHIE.BEL). University of Antwerp
Sabbatical Violet Soen: Towards Transregional History 2.0 KU Leuven
Over the past decade, Transregional History: Crossing Borders in Early Modern Times has grown into a thriving research group on the critical role of borders and border areas during the sixteenth-century religious wars between Protestants and Catholics. The second cohort of PhD students is now investigating the role of universities and their printing press in the transregional transfers from the early modern period. In February 2021 the last ...