Projects
Culture at work. Examining the role of culture in explaining organisational misbehaviour. KU Leuven
Paracrine effects during group culture of bovine embryos as a model for human embryo culture Ghent University
Bovine embryos are routinely produced in goups of 25 because of the improved embryo development in such setting. The superiority of the system is probably caused by the secretion of embryonic paracrine factors, which are positively influencing neighbouring embryos. In part 1 we will investage differential secretion between good (fast) and bad (slow) embryos. Next this model will be used in a human preclinical and clinical study.
Beyond the retail revolution? Shopping culture and city landscape, Brussels 1830-1914. KU Leuven
This book is about the history of the Brussels shopping landscape during the nineteenth century. Although the increasing commercialization of the nineteenth-century urban landscape has long been a topos in historiography, the entirety and diversity of shopping spaces has not yet been the object of thorough research. For decades, historians of retail and shopping have mostly been concerned with ‘modern’ forms of retail, such as the ...
Performing culture in youth courts: An active ethnography of narrative negotiations Ghent University
The project explores the ways in which the notion ‘culture’ is mobilised in youth courts. This institutional context is underpinned by "it's for your own good" ideals, entailing a constant balancing between protecting and punishing young people. Professionals also need to take into account youth's overall background. Previous research has shown that 'mundane' understandings of ‘culture' influence these assessments and at times negatively ...
Performing culture in youth courts: An active ethnography of narrative negotiations Ghent University
The project explores the ways in which the notion ‘culture’ is mobilised in youth courts. This
institutional context is underpinned by "it's for your own good" ideals, entailing a constant
balancing between protecting and punishing young people. Professionals also need to take into
account youth's overall background. Previous research has shown that 'mundane' understandings
of ‘culture' influence these assessments and ...
Perspectives on the so-called 'late Middle Kingdom funerary assemblage'. A Middle Bronze Age Egyptian funerary practice in the light of urban culture, religion, and cultural interrelations. KU Leuven
The aim of the research is to offer a new perspective on the development of an important subset of funerary material culture during the Egyptian Middle Kingdom (c. 2000-1750 BC) and to offer a method for studying changes within funerary assemblages.
The Middle Kingdom was a period of profound socio-cultural changes and it has been argued that these changes are reflected in the evolution of the funerary material. During the later phase ...
Popular Culture on Trial: European Human Rights as Agents of Cultural Change or Preservation? KU Leuven
Cultural traditions (such as Zwarte Piet, Epiphany) and elements of popular culture ( Tintin, the Smurfs, public advertising) are growingly contested on account of the discriminatory stereotypes (in terms of racism, sexism, ...) they may spread and possibly confirm. The research will critically assess how complaints about these traditions and cultural elements are dealt with in various European States, both in courts and in the societal ...
The Self in a Culture of Immediacy. An Ethical-Existential Approach Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Medium and culture at Play: Creative Collaboration in the Contemporary Belgian Graphic Novel KU Leuven
This project is based on the observation of an increase in the publication of collaboratively created graphic novels in the contemporary Flemish graphic novel and its Walloon counterpart as well as the fact that the graphic novels in question have strong ties to the cultural industries. This observation is interesting from a double point of view. Firstly, it suggest a parallel medial dynamic between the Flemish graphic novel and the Walloon ...