Projects
"Collecting, Socialism and the Sea:" A Contextual Analysis of Allan Sekula's Ship of Fools / The Dockers' Museum (2010-2013) KU Leuven
The research is part of a larger project that aims to analyze and contextualize Allan Sekula’s last artistic project, Ship of Fools / The Dockers’ Museum (2010-2013). Broadly speaking the work consists of two lines of inquiry:
Ship of Fools consists of a set of photographs made by Allan Sekula during his voyage on the ship the Global Mariner (1998-2000). This vessel was used for a transnational solidarity and ...
The spectacle of socialism. A transnational and interdisciplinary research on the social and architectural history of WorkersU+2019 Assembly Buildings in European cities (1890-1914). Ghent University
This PhD aims to investigate the interactions and entanglements between architecture and the political culture of labour movements in prewar Europe by focusing on the architectural phenomenon of the often spectacular social democratic Maisons du Peuple or U+2018PeopleU+2019s HousesU+2019 that were built around the turn of the nineteenth to twentieth century in a wide range of European cities. The objective is a clear-cut transnational and ...
Sally disagrees with you! A unified theory of human sociality. Ghent University
As fundamentally social beings, we usually keep company with the people that think like ourselves: Our friends and loved ones. This project aims to deliver a unifying theory of human sociality that can account for why the human brain may want to avoid conflict between own and others' ways of thinking. This will be achieved via online behavioural experiments, a highly innovative functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) design, and ...
Year-round sociality under anthropogenic change in a cooperatively breeding bird Ghent University
Global change challenges biodiversity worldwide, and the ability of species to respond to rapid environmental shifts is of major concern in current biology. Yet, it remains poorly understood how effects of anthropogenic change, such as large-scale habitat fragmentation and climate change, impact sociality in animals. So far, an overwhelming majority of studies focused on the breeding season, while the non-breeding season is believed to ...
Broadcasting Together. Production, Sociality, and Identity in YouTube's Conspiracy Culture KU Leuven
The research is distinctly located at the intersection of (cultural) sociology and communication sciences/ media studies. On the one hand, beliefs in conspiracies are not (just) psychological phenomena. Conspiracy theories in the West are widespread, radical expressions of cultural discontent about modern institutions, the elite and their authority and are hence relevant to study for (cultural) sociologists, political and other social ...
The role of temperament on health status and sociality of golden-headed lion tamarins (Leontopithecus chrysomelas) Royal Zoological Society of Antwerp
Relatif a l'etude des representations sociales de la foret dans les territories de Lisala, Bumba et Bongandanga Ghent University
Relatif a l'etude des representations sociales de la foret dans les territories de Lisala, Bumba et Bongandanga (B) Ghent University
Musical Chineseness: contemporary chinese vocal music between localism and globalization KU Leuven
This research examines contemporary Chinese vocal works in the circumstance where there is a strong tension between globalization and localism. Many representatives of the so-called “New Wave” are observed to use vocal and vocal techniques of traditional Chinese music. At the same time, these composers integrate and combine such techniques with the idioms of Western music. Their works are closely linked with a critical discourse that centers ...