Projects
This story may provide proof. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond Ghent University
‘This story may provide proof’. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond. Ghent University
Combining intellectual history with material philology, this project studies the authority attributed to
histories in Syriac excerpt collections (6-10th c). It uses unstudied material to analyse the
intertwining of identity formation and historical narratives, to provide the first cross-cultural study of
late antique excerpt collections, and to study the changing status of historical knowledge compared
to other types ...
Commissioned history and the confluence of history and jurisdiction. A comparative and meta-historical analysis of four government-appointed historical commissions in Europe after 1989 Ghent University
Since the end of the Cold War many countries have turned to historical commissions as a way to deal with the past. This project comparatively analyses four post-1989 European government-appointed historical commissions (the German U+2018Enquete-kommisionU+2019, the Swiss U+2018Bergier-commissionU+2019, the Dutch Srebrenica-inquiry, and the Belgian Lumumba-commission) which are from an empirical and a meta-historical perspective. I focus on ...
Time-Travelling Boxes? French History Comics as a New Way of Considering History. Ghent University
Lately, the assumption that comics are only made for entertainment and lack historical objectivity has tended to be obscured by a new function: historical fiction and nonfiction comics have established themselves as a laboratory for reflection on practices and meanings of historical writing, and have become both a phenomenon and a symbol. A phenomenon, for in France, since the 1990s, historical comics have been reaching a growing readership ...
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
The History of Exegesis and Marginal Books of the New Testament: The Patristic Reception History of 1 Peter KU Leuven
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, ...
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 ...