Projects
Visiting Romanian researcher Mrs. Lulia-Roxana Stefan (17/11/2018-30/11/2018) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Non-canonical subject marking in Romanian: a synchronic and diachronic account Ghent University
The aim of this project is to study oblique subject-like arguments in Contemporary Romanian and their evolution in Romanian texts from the 16th century until now, in order to verify whether decline, stability or increase in productivity of non-canonical subject marking can be observed, bringing Romanian closer to or further away from the Standard Average European type.
Visiting postdoctoral (senior) fellowship : Drugan Madalina (Romania) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Visiting postdoctoral (senior) fellowship : dr. Daniel BULACU (Romania) Vrije Universiteit Brussel
The use of ancient Christianity in the romanità as a part of the political religion of Italian fascism Ghent University
The project analyzes the position of religion, Christian and pagan, in Italian fascism, more specifically in the so-called 'romanità ' or 'Romanness'. This myth was one of the cornerstones of fascism. The analysis of the position of religion is situated in the idea of fascism as a form of modern, political religion.
Food economy and land use during the Late Bronze Age, Iron Age and Roman period (1600 BC-400 AD) in Southeast Bulgaria: bioarcheological perspectives KU Leuven
Ancient Thrace was an extensive area that occupied part of south-eastern Europe (mainly modern Bulgaria and Romania) and played a key role as a bridge between Classical Civilisations and the temperate ‘Barbarian’ Europe, becoming a unique interacting world between East and West. It was not an ethnically and culturally homogenous region, but was rather composed of numerous tribes that shared a common material culture. Thracian peoples are ...
Organellar Redox Signaling in Plants Ghent University
Belgium research has a longstanding tradition and strong track record in organellar research. Christian de Duve, a Belgian cell biologist, discovered two cellular organelles (lysosomes and peroxisomes), for which he shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1974 with Albert Claude (Belgian) and George Palade (Romania). Having worked at the border of biochemistry and cell biology, de Duve insisted on the importance of collaborative ...
Bridge-Builder Between East and West: André Scrima (19252000) and His Contribution to the Ecumenical Quest for Unity KU Leuven
The Romanian Orthodox theologian André Scrima (1925-2000) is one of the most emblematic protagonists of the 20th-century ecumenical turn in Catholic-Orthodox relationships. Despite his important ecumenical role, Scrima is a routinely neglected theologian by contemporary scholars and academics. That being the case, this project aims at filling this gap in ecumenical research by focusing on Scrima’s groundbreaking and unique contribution to the ...