Projects
Emphasis on the similarities between our mind and animal minds. Against over-intellectualizing the University of Antwerp
ERASMUS MUNDUS PROGRAMMA : "External cooperation window" (Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window) - L11 (Lot 11) - Afghanistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Pakistan, Bangladesh - (lot11.emecw.com) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
ERASMUS MUNDUS PROGRAMMA : "External cooperation window" (Erasmus Mundus External Cooperation Window) - L14 (Lot 14) - China - (lot14.emecw.com) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Social and Intellectual Interaction between the Zoroastrians, Jains and Hindus under the Islamic Rule in Gujarat. Ghent University
This project intends to re-examine and add new discoveries to the history of Zoroastrian Parsis, Jains and Hindus under the Islamic rule in Gujarat (1407- 1756 AD). Scholars from these three communities worked as intellectuals and scribes at the courts of the Islamic rulers in Gujarat and wrote manuscripts on different subjects. Their religious, economic, and social rivalry occasionally comes through in their writings. This work will mainly ...
From digital abstinence to mindful media use: Investigating strategies for digital well-being KU Leuven
In times of ubiquitous technology access, digital media have taken a central part in subjective well-being. Although the scholarly literature on digital well-being has gained momentum in recent years, the research field is still highly fragmented. Thus, the PhD project will focus on the relatively recent concept of digital well-being by conceptualizing and testing causal links between various strategies of digital media (non-)use and ...
Digitising the indigenous and indigenising the digital: Using new technologies to create ethically minded paths for circulation of traditional dances Ghent University
Explore and critique the possibilities that new digital technologies convey for the safeguarding of indigenous dances and intangible cultural heritage practices. Blockchain, motion-capture, and other digitisation tools are to be examined within the margins wherein they are embedded: intellectual property, interculturalism and accessibility issues. The interdisciplinary methodology aims to deliver theoretical and critical frameworks for future ...
Changing minds: towards lifelong carefree living. The intersection between construction & care PXL
Parent-child talk about the past: The antecedent role of mindful parenting and children’s externalizing problems in parent-child reminiscing and the effect on children’s emotion regulation Ghent University
This project aims to examine the consequences of an elaborative parental reminiscing style for 3-6 year old toddlers’ emotion regulation. Additionally, mindful parenting (i.e., parents’ ability to attend to and to be non-judgmental when interacting with their child) and children’s externalizing problems will be examined as possible antecedents of this parental reminiscing style.
Tragic Minds: Presentations of Fictional Consciousness in Fifth-Century Athenian Drama Ghent University
The project seeks to elucidate tragedy's complex, intertwined notions of agency and consciousness by proposing the first comprehensive study of narrative mindreading in Greek tragedy. It aims to contribute both to the analysis of consciousness and causality attribution in tragedy, and to the theoretical conceptualization of 'narrative mindreading'.