Projects
From Grammatical to Didactic Modelization: A Comparative Analysis of Early Romance Grammaticography (up to 1600) (French, Occitan, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese) KU Leuven
My research concerns the historiography of grammar as the descriptive 'hard core' (Swiggers 2012) of the history of linguistics, more specifically the earliest grammatical descriptions of the Romance languages. The time span chosen (13th century-1600), corresponding to the foundation of the vernacular traditions, provides us with a primary corpus of some 50 titles, representing 5 language areas (viz., Occitan, French, Italian, ...
Greetings from the past: on the use of interjections in foreign language textbooks from Early modern Flanders Ghent University
This project focuses on interjections in spoken 16th-century Dutch, contrasted with other Germanic and Romance languages. We will investigate their semantic-pragmatic functions based on a parallel corpus of multilingual textbooks (Colloquia, et dictionariolum, 1536-1700) which we will compile. The project will also provide insight into aspects of linguistic and cultural knowledge transfer through language teaching in Early modern Flanders. ...
Cultural Leadership in the Low Countries University of Antwerp
Negotiating Group Identities Along Ethnicity and Religion. Case: On- and Offline Networks in The Low Countries. KU Leuven
At a time when ethnic inter-group attitudes are changing, uneven integration of (and within) ethnic cultural minorities in general and Muslims in particular into the socioeconomic life of European host countries and conflicting values are becoming increasingly important, fuelling antagonism between majority and minority groups. This research aims to increase our understanding of how Muslim ethnic-cultural minorities share knowledge, values ...
Multiple identities in a late medieval and early modern city: Mechelen in the 15th and 16th centuries. University of Antwerp
The quest for young eyes. Attention to news among young people in the Low Countries KU Leuven
This dissertation started off with the observation that attention for news among young people decreases. More precisely, previous survey studies outlined a triple shift in the current young generation’s use of news: from more to less news, from offline to online news, and from professional to non-professional news sources. Underlying these three trends, was the finding that news does not constitute a substantial part of the daily routines of ...
The CMS experiment at the CERN Large Hadron Collider. University of Antwerp
The CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN. University of Antwerp
Robespierre: changing images in the mirror. The figure of Maximilien Robespierre in German 20th century literature. KU Leuven
Diese Dissertation fängt an mit der Feststellung, dass Robespierre im langen 19. Jahrhundert als ein zu lösendes Rätsel aufgefasst wurde. Er fungiert im kulturellen Gedächtnis als Chiffre für den prototypisch tragischen Konflikt zwischen Ideal und Realität bzw. Utopie und Terror – in einer Zeit, als der königliche Körper als Zusammenhalt des sozialpolitischen Bunds verlorenging. Diese Dissertation bringt verschiedene Elemente in der Rezeption ...