Projects
Sabbatical 2018-2019 Prof. Dirk Van Hulle University of Antwerp
BOF Sabbatical leave 2018-2019 Prof. Beyen. University of Antwerp
BOF Sabbatical Leave 2018-2019 Prof. Luc Pauwels. University of Antwerp
QUALITY CONTROL OF SELECTED TRADITIONAL ETHIOPIAN PHARMACEUTICAL FORMULATIONS KU Leuven
To treat diseases and improve their health, people in Ethiopia do not only use synthetic drugs, but also traditional African medicines. However, information on the safety, efficacy and quality of the latter are missing. For this reason, quality control needs to be carried out according to established principles. A reliable system of quality and safety control is crucial to save lives and improve health by promoting access to medicines that ...
David, our Orpheus: Reception, Rewritings and Adaptations of the Psalms in Byzantine Poetry. Ghent University
The Psalms, being an important corpus of biblical poetic texts, have influenced the entire history of
European literature and religious culture. Early Christian and Byzantine readers recognized the
poetical features of the Psalms, and psalmody (i.e. the practice of singing the Psalms in divine
worship) was a typical exercise of monastic life. The proposed research will analyze how the Greek
Psalms ...
The Parallel Contribution of the ‘Journées oecuméniques de Chevetogne’ (1942-1963) and the ‘Conférence Catholique pour les questions oecuméniques’ (1952-1963) to the Renewal of Catholic Ecclesiology and Ecumenism before and during Vatican II KU Leuven
During the recent commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council the complex redaction history of the conciliar documents received a lot of scholarly attention. Key ideas such as the need for permanent reform of the Church and for a better equilibrium between Pope and bishops, were prepared and tested in progressive theological milieus in the decades preceding the Council. The evolution of the Catholic reflection on ...
Sabbatical - Henk de Smaele. University of Antwerp
A new theory of aggregation: From ordered to non-ordered structured data Ghent University
In this internet era where 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created per day, the development of
techniques for efficiently aggregating this dizzying amount of data has become a matter of utmost
importance. The relevance of the formalization of this simple notion of aggregation can be
quantified by countless papers, special issues, edited volumes, monographs, conferences, summer
schools, etc. ...
Homo Mimeticus: Theory and Criticism KU Leuven
Mimesis is one of the most influential concepts in Western thought. Originally invoked to define humans as the “most imitative” creatures in classical antiquity, mimesis (imitation) has recently been at the centre of theoretical debates in the humanities, social sciences, and the neurosciences concerning the role of “mimicry,” “identification,” “contagion,” and “mirror neurons” in the formation of subjectivity. And yet, despite the growing ...