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EU Bonus credit type B2c for EU PF7 project with start date 6/6/2012: EPINET Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The EPINET project introduces a new approach to promote integration of technology assessment (TA) methods. It will develop methods and criteria to be used for more socially robust and efficient practices on the interfaces between TA and the world of policy makers and innovators. At present, a large number of TA methodologies and practices exist. Many of these are based on varying - and sometimes conflicting, unclear values, presuppositions, interests and commitments. This is problematic, insofar as differing conclusions and recommendations will follow from different methodologies and disciplines; hence the need for more integrated approaches. However, the irreducible difference of perspectives and plurality in the field of TA needs to be recognised and used as a resource; not a problem to be done away with. A grand synthesis of methodologies would not do justice to the field and would risk negating progress already made. EPINET introduces the concept of epistemic networks as a way of conceptualising complex developments within emerging fields of sociotechnical innovation practices. It establishes a "soft" framework within which the plurality of different TA practices can be explored in a concerted and holistic manner. Four cases are investigated along with the development of this framework: wearable sensors, cognition for technical systems, synthetic meat and smart grids. "Integrating TA", it is claimed, is a task for empirical investigation in which implicit values of TA methodologies, disciplines and practices are spelled out and placed in relation to the practices they are meant to assess. This is the context of innovation conceptualised through the concept of emerging and future epistemic networks. EPINET develops a holistic framework for integrating assessments through gradual co-production of methodologies and concepts (centrally that of "responsible innovation") together with innovators and policy makers. The challenges of "integrating assessments", we claim, can only be gradually worked out within such a holistic view of complex intersecting networks and practices Organisations: • Metajuridica

Researchers: • SERGE GUTWIRTH

EU-bonuskrediet type B2c voor PHAEDRA Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: A consortium of four partners from Belgium, the UK, Spain and Poland has initiated a new European project aimed at helping data protection authorities (DPAs) around the world to improve the enforcement of privacy laws. The two-year research project, called PHAEDRA, started in January 2013 and is co-funded by the European Union under its Fundamental Rights and Citizenship programme. PHAEDRA is the acronym for "Improving Practical and Helpful cooperAtion bEtween Data PRotection Authorities". The four partners include Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium), Trilateral Research & Consulting (UK), Universitat Jaume I (Spain) and the Inspector General for Personal Data Protection (GIODO), the Polish data protection authority. "In the spirit of the ombudsman idea, Member States of the EU have established data protection authorities, who operate de facto privacy help desks that support citizens confronted with privacy and data protection problems, be it spam, identity theft or black lists stored in third countries without data protection. These data protection authorities became a recognisable feature of Europe's Information Society helping, on a no-cost basis, citizens, companies and state institutions with legal advice or using their administrative and police powers to fight data protection abuses," says Prof. Paul De Hert, the PHAEDRA project co-ordinator from VUB. "Every individual today is a battleground," observes David Wright, Managing Partner of Trilateral Research, adding: "Governments, companies, hackers and other evil-doers are trying to strip away citizens' privacy. Our principal, poorly-armed defenders are data protection authorities and privacy commissioners." Recent rapid development of information and communications technologies have resulted in the increase of cross-border flows of personal data and, in parallel, in elevating privacy and data protection risks. This requires an adequate response to tackle privacy and data protection breaches of a cross-border nature, and hence calls for co-operation amongst DPAs. Such a need was observed as early as the 2000s, and although some efforts have been undertaken, it still remains one of the weakest links in privacy and data protection governance. "In a globalised Internet world, enforcement co-operation among DPAs is vital to ensure the real protection of personal data," notes Artemi Rallo, former director of the Agencia Española de Protección de Datos and professor at Universitat Jaume I. However, many DPAs, when it comes to international co-operation, face legal and institutional constraints as well as human and budgetary shortages. Looking only at the European context, the Article 29 Working Party, which brings together DPAs from all 27 EU Member States, in one of its 2011 "advises" has identified a number of obstacles and concluded that there is a need to develop rules on co-operation "in a more detailed and specific way" and to "provide clarity on the extent to which information can be shared between DPAs", among others. "Even the best-equipped data protection authorities cannot meet all of the demands on their time," adds Prof. Rallo. "To make matters worse, several DPAs have sometimes investigated the same issue, as was the case with Google Street View." Recently, however, DPAs have been trying to avoid a duplication of effort, so that one DPA investigates an issue and shares the results with his fellow regulators. Such was the case when CNIL, the French data protection authority, investigated on behalf of the Art. 29 Working Party Google's combining and integrating its privacy policies across different services. The European Commission has recognised the need for improved co-operation between DPAs. While the proposal for the General Data Protection Regulation strengthens the mechanisms for co-operation between European DPAs, its Article 45 is specifically focused on international cooperation. It says the Commission and DPAs shall "develop effective co-operation mechanisms to facilitate the enforcement of legislation for the protection of personal data" and to "provide international mutual assistance in the enforcement of legislation". "Worldwide flows of personal data and corresponding privacy and data protection risks require an adequate global response in order to effectively protect privacy of European citizens. Therefore, European DPAs should not only focus on EU Member States, but also collaborate with countries outside the EU to improve enforcement of data protection legislation against multinational data controllers and others who violate data protection rights," declares Dr. Wojciech Wiewiórowski, Inspector General for Personal Data Protection. The first major initiative of the PHAEDRA project has been to send a questionnaire to DPAs and privacy commissioners around the world aimed at

understanding their perceived needs for improved co-operation and co-ordination and whether their empowering legislation encourages or constrains co-operation. Second, the consortium will review the legislation establishing DPAs to identify whether there are provisions that act as barriers or that inhibit international co-operation and co-ordination and what measures could be taken to reduce such barriers. Third, the PHAEDRA consortium will contact DPAs to determine how the project could reinforce their efforts. The project will conclude with a set of recommendations. The consortium intends to organise three workshops for discussion of co-ordination efforts. The PHAEDRA project follows several other international initiatives aimed at improving co-operation and co-ordination between DPAs. In 2007, the OECD adopted a Recommendation on Cross-border Co-operation in the Enforcement of Laws Protecting Privacy. The 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners (ICDPPC) adopted a "Resolution on International Co-operation" at its meeting in Montreal in 2007. In 2010, 11 privacy enforcement authorities launched the Global Privacy Enforcement Network (GPEN) with a mission to "promote and support cooperation in cross-border enforcement of laws protecting privacy", primarily by exchanging information between DPAs. The 33rd ICDPPC, held in Mexico City in 2011, adopted an even more detailed Resolution, encouraging more effective co-ordination of cross-border investigation and enforcement. The Article 29 Working Party also has on its agenda enhancing enforcement and promoting international cooperation between privacy authorities. Organisations: • Metajuridica

Researchers: • PAUL DE HERT

Euergetai in Asia Minor (from the middle of the 3rd century BC until the end of the first century AD): activities, social background(s), behavorial patterns and the impact on social evolution(s). Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The research will start out from an inventory of the activities of euergetai (benefactors) or the various expressions of euergetism, as they were implemented in the city of Iasos in Caria, in order to define and reconstruct euergetism in this particular historical setting. The attention will be focused at detecting prominent patterns and their evolution, in terms of the specific euergetic activities, the way benefactors were rewarded by the community, the identity of the benefactors and their social background and the way benefactors were present(ed) in the everyday life of the city of Iasos. The results will be embedded in the urban and regional historical context in order to point out interrelationships where possible. In order to distinguish the characteristic features and nature of euergetism in Iasos, this Iasian euergetism will be confronted and compared with euergetism as a historical phenomenon on a global level, as it is described and used in the current scientific literature. Subsequently the social meaning and impact of euergetism on the basis of, and for the case study Iasos will be assessed, refined and/or confirmed, when possible or necessary. Organisations: • History

Researchers: • WERNER GOEGEBEUR • Sabina COLPAERT

EU FP7 project: IRISS (FP7-SSH-2011-2) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: RISS will reconstruct the spread of surveillance systems and technologies in public and private sectors from the perspective of their impact on the fabric of a democratic society. The project will focus on the observable effects and everyday understanding of surveillance in contemporary Europe, analysing differences within and between individual societies and matching the observable effects against the situation in other parts of the world. The project will pursue a strategy of in-depth analysis of a broad range of carefully selected cases, applying a mix of methods to produce a comprehensive account of the effects that surveillance can have on public discourse, perceived security and citizens' fears. IRISS will analyse citizens' interpretations with regard to the effects they can have on different policies in the fight against crime and terrorism. This empirical research will inform an analysis designed to explore options for increasing social, economic and institutional resilience. IRISS will produce a comprehensive account of resilience options, focussing on strengthening democratic processes and public discourse about appropriate reactions towards threats against open democratic societies. Stakeholder engagement is key to the success of IRISS and the consortium will involve stakeholders in expert workshops, an international advisory board as well as by other direct contacts. Objectives/goals The IRISS project has the following main objectives: To investigate the emergence, development and deployment of surveillance technologies, their impact on basic rights and their social and economic costs. To design a theoretical framework of understanding which captures core dimensions of the relationship between surveillance and democracy and which can be utilised to explore these relations empirically. To understand and reconstruct citizens' views and understanding of surveillance and their options to exercise their democratic rights in surveillance societies. To identify and analyse the options for enhancing social, economic and institutional resilience in European societies. Organisations: • Metajuridica

Researchers: • PAUL DE HERT

EU FP7 project: TELL ME (FP7-HEALTH-2011-two-stage) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: TELL ME will establish an integrated research project involving experts in social and behavioural sciences, communication and media, health professionals at various levels and specialties and representatives of civil society organisations to develop an evidence-based behavioural and communication package to respond to major epidemic outbreaks, notably flu pandemics. The main outcomes of TELL ME will be an Integrated Communication Kit for Outbreak Communication and simulation software to assess alternative communication strategies. Organisations: • Metajuridica

Researchers: • PAUL DE HERT

EUROPEANA INSIDE. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Faculty of Theology and Religious Studie

Researchers: • N. N.

Europeana Libraries: Aggregating digital content from Europe's libraries Ghent University Abstract: The Europeana Libraries project will: 1. Bring to Europeana the digital collections of some of Europe's leading research libraries from 11 countries. The content is of the highest quality and is also significant in terms of scale, with some of the largest digital collections in Europe, including extensive collections from Google Books, theses and dissertations from DART-Europe and open-access journal articles via the Directory of Open Access Journals. In total some 5.168.453 pages/omages/books and these/AV clips/articles will be loaded into Europeana as an outcome of Europeana Libraries. 2. Be the first project to offer digital collections where the text will be fully searchable in Europeana, making it possible to search inside books and other maerials. Europeana Libraries will also devote time and expertise to enhancing fill-text searching capabilities and features. 3. Establish systems and processes capable of ingesting and indexing significant quantities of digitised material, including text, images, moving images and sound clips. The outcome will be an efficient and effective library-domain aggregator service for Europeana. Once the library aggregation model has been established over the two-year life of Europeana Libraries, the service will be fully capable of extension to other libraries across Europe, Including the rest of LIBER and CERL membership- over 400 libraries in over 40 countries across Europe Organisations: • Department of Research Affairs

Researchers: • Sylvia Van Peteghem

EuropeanaPhotography. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Literature and Culture, Leuven

Researchers: • Frederik Truyen

European identity and exclusion: the discursive construction of the 'Judeo-Christian' tradition. KU Leuven Abstract: While the EU Parliament did not endorse the reference to Europes Judeo-Christian roots in its the constitution, the motion nonetheless provoked an on-going debate concerning Europes identity. On the one side arethose who cite the Judeo-Christian commandment to care for the stranger as central to European civilization, on the other are those who arguefor the exclusion of Islam from Europe in the name of the JudeoChristian tradition. While the media claims that Islamophobia is caused by a European identity crisis, these claims lack academic validation. To do so, I will (1) investigate the identity facet of nationalism in the 20th century with its concurrent rise of anti-Semitism (2) examine whether the current identity based rhetoric of Judeo-Christianity veils a violent past while producing a new enemy, and (3) apply these results in the analysis of Europes current situation with regard to Islam. Aware of thedifferences between Europes two forms of anti-Semitism, one Judaic Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Antoon Braeckman • Anne Topolski

European images of China: A study on the reception of the novel Romanceof the Tree Kingdoms in modern Europe KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven

Researchers: • Patrick Pasture • N. N. • Theodoor D'haen

European Lacquerwork in Context: art-historical, technological and chemical characterization of European Lacquerwork in federal collections (ELINC). University of Antwerp Abstract: This research project focuses on the technological history of European lacquers, with an emphasis on those made in our regions and special attention to japanned objects in the collections of the Royal Museums of Art and History (RMAH). The lacquers will be characterized by joint efforts of art-historical, technological and chemical research. Organisations: • Heritage and Sustainability

Researchers: • Charles Indekeu

European Muslims and the End of Life. Turkish and Moroccan Attitudes towards Suffering, Dying and Mourning in Antwerp, Belgium KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations:

• Research Unit of Theological and Compara

Researchers: • Bert Broeckaert

Europe, Brain and music: New perspectives for stimulating cognitive and sensory processes (EBRASMUS) Ghent University Abstract: The aim of the EBRAMUS project is to increase our overall understanding of brain function and to have an impact on clinical and educational applications by developing new diagnostic tools, training and rehabilitation techniques, and new music technology. The EBRAMUS team is composed of an international and interdisciplinary group of partners. The program relies on 11 projects. IPEM is the partner that takes the lead for the cochlear Implant Music (CIM- project. The goal of the CIM project is to develop a gesture-based audio-stimulation system that fosters the coupling of action and perception in cochlear implant users. Organisations: • Departement of Art, music and theatre sciences

Researchers: • Marc Leman

EUROYOUTH KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Centre for Political Research

Researchers: • Marc Hooghe

Evaluating the Humanities. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project contributes to measuring the impact academic monographs from the field of History have on wider society outside of academia. It stems from the notion that the publication output from the Social Sciences and Humanities can have an 'enlightenment' role for a broad, not strictly academic readership. We analyse this using a novel, 'altmetric' data source from the internet, namely ratings (a numerical score) and reviews (written text) from Goodreads.com, a non-academic and non-commercial social platform specifically devoted to the posting of reader's evaluations of books from all genres and disciplines, thus including History. This data is enriched by bibliographic descriptions from OCLC Worldcat, and combined with citation data from academic journals indexed in Scopus. The methodology consists of calculating correlations: 1° between academic (citation) impact and a societal impact (ratings and reviews), and 2° between high societal impact and various book characteristics such as publisher, year and country of publication, author profile and subject matter. In addition, we perform a qualitative analysis of written reader reviews. Organisations: • Institutional Research Unit

Researchers: • Tim Engels

Evaluation and assessment of archaeological sites at Rooiveld-Papevijvers Oostkamp (West Flanders) Ghent University Abstract: This project aims at making an exhaustive inventory of the archaeological heritage within an area which is planned to be re-forested. Also this project will include an assessment of one or two archaeological sites by means of trial trenching in view of elaborating an appropriate management in the framework of the re-forestation. Organisations: • Departement of Archeology

Researchers: • Jean Bourgeois • Philippe Crombé

Evaluation and monitoring of bilingual education in Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders in a European perspective. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The project aims at studying the implementation of bilingual- or reinforced- language education in Belgium. It is part of a larger European project namely the European language council and its major thematic network on languages. Previous years were devoted to the state of the art and the study of "good practice". 1999 will be dedicated to curricula development. As we are well aware of the subsidiarity rule in Europe, each member state has to come up with its own ideas on the subject. Belgium as a trilingual country with a sophisticated level of foreign language teaching has an important role to play. This project goes beyond traditional language teaching and aims at a "content and language integrated learning" approach which enhances language learning and cognitive abilities alike. The proposed curricula development will be discussed on a European level at a major European conference in Wuppertal in the spring of 1999. Organisations: • Germanic Languages

Researchers: • PIERRE VAN DE CRAEN • HUGO BAETENS BEARDSMORE • Alexis HOUSEN

Evaluation and Monitoring of Bilingual Education in Primary Education in Brussels, Wallonia and Flanders in a European Perspective. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The project aims at the implementation of bilingual - or reonforced - language education in Belgium . It is a part of a larger European project namely The European Language Council and its Major Thematic Network on Languages . Previous years were devoted to the state of the art and the study of 'Good Practice'. 1999 will be dedicated to curricula development . As we are well aware of the subsidiarity rule in Europe each member state has to come up with its own ideas on the subject . Belgium as a trilingual country with a sophisticated level of foreign languageteaching has an important role to play . This project goes beyond traditional language teaching and aims at a 'Content and Language Integrated Learning' approach which enhances language learning and cognitive abilities alike . The proposed curricula development will be discussed on a European level at a major European conference in Wüppertal in the spring of 1999 . Organisations: • Germanic Languages

Researchers: • PIERRE VAN DE CRAEN • HUGO BAETENS BEARDSMORE • Alexis HOUSEN

Evaluation Research Brussels Curriculum Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: In its Education policy letter 2008 the Ministre goes deeper into the problem of the Brussels Dutch-language education. Organisations: • Germanic Languages

Researchers: • PIERRE VAN DE CRAEN

Evolution and Normativity KU Leuven Abstract: Defining the concepts of health and disease has proved rather difficultand many philosophers of medicine have simply concluded that we would be betteroff giving up on such endeavors. I feel that this view is misguided mainlybecause it seems to rest on a rather inadequate understanding of howphilosophers use biology to clarify medical concepts. While some philosophersappeal to biology so as to clarify what we mean by the concepts of health anddisease, others attempt to use biology to develop a theory thathelps toexplain what health and disease are. In this dissertation, I examine the workof an often overlooked philosopher of medicine, Georges Canguilhem, who soughtto understand medical concepts by starting from the biological properties ofvariation and variability. In other words, in order to define health anddisease, Canguilhem first tried to establish how what is normal can varybetween organisms and even within the same organism due to the dynamic relationbetween the organism a Organisations: • Centre for Logic and Analytical Philosop

Researchers: • Andreas De Block • Jonathan Sholl

Evolutionary construction of knowledge systems: a theoretical and empirical study within the framework of the PPRincipia Cybernetica Project. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: We assume that it is possible to explain the construction of new knowledge systems with the help of an evolutionary-systemic approach, based on the recombination and selection of existing concepts. We plan to develop such a model by integrating existing, partial theories: Holland's classifiers and genetic algorithms, memetics, heuristic models of discovery and knowledge reformulation, and Campbell's evolutionary epistemology. This model will be tested empirically by comparing its predictions with the results of a computer-supported process of system construction, as proposed in the Principia Cybernetica Project. This will necessitate an intensive collaboration, using electronic mail and de WorldWide Web distributed hypermedia network, with foreign colleagues participating in the Principia Cybernetica network. Organisations: • Centre for Logic and Science-Philosophy • Personality and Social Psychology • Philosophy - Moral Sciences

Researchers: • FRANCIS HEYLIGHEN • FRANK VAN OVERWALLE • JEAN VAN BENDEGEM

Evolutionary Explanations of Religion: Breaking the Spell or Revealing the Wonder? KU Leuven Abstract: This project aims at a theological reflection on evolutionary studies of religion. Preliminary will be a study of different ways to relate science and religion with each other, e.g. the typologies proposed by Ian Barbour, Anne Clifford and Mikael Stenmark, as well as a study of present evolutionary theories of religion, e.g. proposals by Robert Bellah, David Sloan Wilson, Justin Barrett. Based on these preliminary steps a theological reflection on 'Imago Dei' will be developed. Can an evolutionary perspective on religion enhance our understanding of humanity as 'Created in His image'? A thorough examination of Philip Hefner's theological efforts, concentrating on his theological anthropology, will help answer this question. Organisations: • Research Unit of Systematic Theology and

Researchers: • Lieven Boeve • Tom Uytterhoeven

Evolutionary Insights of C3 Mophotype Bacteriophages using Phylogenomic Network and Strucutral Characterization of a Novel Bacteriophage-Encoded Gene Relevant to CRISPR DNA Regulation KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Division of Gene Technology

Researchers: • Rob Lavigne

Evolution of the amateur theatre in Brussels in the post World War II are and investigatin concerning the eductional and social-political. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The present proposition claims a double aim. First of all, a survey of the Flemisch amateur theatre in Brussels in the post World War II era will be given. Secondly, an investigation will be done concerning two important tasks of this branche on the field of adult education. One distinct task the amateur theatre accomplishes concerns the educational influence on the personal individual and social being) from the aspect of art education (to let people discover the realm of art). The other task concerns the socio-political sphere, more specific the increase and the preservation of a Flemish identity. Organisations: • Agogics

Researchers:

• WILLEM ELIAS

Evo-Mech: Evolutionary mechanics and the origins of biocomplexity. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: In recent years, dual-process theories of cognition have become increasingly popular in explaining cognitive, affective, and social processes. While dual-process theories of cognition have increased ou understanding of explicit and implicit processes, the application of dualprocess theory to creativity has not received as much attention. Creative achievement surely involves both conscious, controlled, and deliberate thought processes as well as nonconscious, impulsive, and automatic thought processes. Further, allthough much research has demonstrated that individual differences in the controlled, deliberate, reflective processes that underlie the "explicit system" are strongly related to psychometric intelligence and working memory, few studies have investigated individual differences in the automatic, unintentional, nonconscious processes that underlie the 'implicit system'. My research strategy is to unearth important sources of variance in both systems of thought and investigate how individual differences in these two systems interact with each other and with personality to predict the highest levels of creative thought and achievement across arts and sciences. Towards these research aims, i have already conducted research on the onteractions between individual differences in explicir cognition, implicit cognition, and personality. I hope to advance my researc program to further our understanding of the determinants of the highest levels of creative accomplishment. Organisations: • Centre Leo Apostel

Researchers: • Diederik AERTS

Ex abundantia cordis. A philosophical inquiry into the role of emotions in religion. University of Antwerp Abstract: Especially in the philosophy of mind and in moralphilosophy there is an important theoretical tradition on passions and emotions. These theories were never applied to the specific domain of religious passions and emotions. By doing just that this research project wants to get clarity concerning the question whether emotions hinder, accompane or constitute the religious attidtude of the subject. Organisations: • RESEARCH DEPARTMENT FOR PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGIOUS SCIENCES • Center for European Philosophy

Researchers: • Willem Lemmens • Walter Van Herck

Examination of 20 lead rosettes in Ruckers harpsichords by means of X-ray fluorescence (XRF). University of Antwerp Abstract: The aim of this project is to determine by measurement the composition of lead rosettes in relation to their manufacture and period. Organisations: • Heritage and Sustainability

Researchers: • Patrick Storme

Examining the Organization of the Production of Illustrated Books in the Seventeenth Century and its Economic, Technical, and Artistic Aspects. University of Antwerp Abstract: This is a case study of the cooperative and self-serving working relationship maintained by the Plantin-Moretus Press and the Galle print atelier in the period 1600-1676 for the production of illustrated books. The goal will be to analyze the following: 1. The management and costs of the production of illustrated books; 2. The types of agreements independent businesses entered into in order to secure a successful production and distribution of their illustrated products; 3. The resulting impact on the formation of visual culture; 4. The role of Antwerp (and in particular that of the Plantin-Moretus Press and the Galle atelier) in the production and distribution of illustrated works in seventeenth-century Europe. Organisations: • CENTRE FOR CULTURAL AND URBAN HISTORY • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Arnout Balis • Alfons Thijs

Examplary reading. Renaissance commentaries on Valerius Maximus and therhetoric of exemplum. KU Leuven Abstract: A remarkably neglected way of entering the Wirkungsgeschichte of Valerius Maximus myriad of rhetorical anecdotes in his Memorable Deeds and Sayings (Facta et dicta memorabilia) is an in-depth study of his Renaissance commentators from the 14th up to the 17th century. Since scholars from Petrarch onwards treated classical texts both as documents of historical interest, which could make the ancient world live again, and as ideal and timeless objects for literary imitation in the present, commentaries prove to be an indirect yet fascinating route both to Valerius collection of exempla and its narrative force.In this research project it is investigated how Renaissance commentaries on Valerius Maximus, dating from the generation following Petrarch and including the influential commentaries by Oliverius Arzignanensis (Venice, 1487), Jodocus Badius Ascensius (Paris, 1510), Henricus Glareanus (Basle, 1550), and Stephanus Pighius (Antwerp, 1574), functioned intheir cultural and literary conte Organisations: • Latin Literature and Seminarium Philolog

Researchers: • Jan Papy • Marijke Crab

Exchange Networks and Ecological Change in Early Holocene Northwest Europe Ghent University Abstract: The log-distance exchange of Tienen and Wommersom quartzites is examined by geo-chemical sourching, geographic information system (GIS) database construction and statistical analyses, lithic technological organization, stone knapping experimentaion, ant lithic use-wear analyses. This project investigates the role of exchange networks in the adaptations of hunter-gatherers to ecological change along the southern North Sea basin during the onset of the post-glacial environment of the Early Holocene. Organisations: • Departement of Archeology

Researchers:

• Philippe Crombé

Executing social science research 'Flanders Interactive' in the framework of IWT-project Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The project Flanders Interactive consists of a consortium of all major players in the cable and television landscape (Telenet, VRT, VMMa, VT4 and Interkabel). The project has a central goal to prepare the market introduction of interactive digital television in Flanders. For this there is a technological subgoal and a social science subgoal. Organisations: • Studies on Media Information & Telecommunication • Communication Sciences

Researchers: • CAROLINE PAUWELS • Jos PIERSON • Wendy Van den Broeck

Execution of penalisation in Flanders 1796-1940: a sociological, criminological and historical approach. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The historical-criminological research in our surrounding countries has known a bloom over the last several years. Within this research area, the 19th and 20th century are occupying a more important place. The criminal policy in Belgium (prosecution, execution) is still in its early stadium. There is even nothing known about the social and criminological profile of the (19th century-) convict. The time is ripe when the archieves of the penitentary institutions and foster homes for special youth education on a systematical maner are being transferred , to (in the name of historical criminological research) make these sources accessible and to involve in an investigation of ciminal proceedings. Organisations: • Criminology

Researchers: • SONJA SNACKEN

Exegi monumentum. Local and National Identities in Nineteenth-Century Antwerp (1830-1914). University of Antwerp Abstract: The erection, inauguration and commemoration of public monuments and the festivities accompanying these events are used as source material for the study of local and national identities in nineteenth-century Antwerp. This investigation focuses especially on the attempts by certain social groups and individuals to reconstruct the city's self-image as a Metropolis of Art and Commerce and on the appropriation of this self-image by the rest of urban society. Organisations: • CENTRE FOR CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANTWERP • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Alfons Thijs • Ben Croon

Exemplar-based models of human sentence comprehension. University of Antwerp Abstract: This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. Organisations: • Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)

Researchers: • Walter Daelemans • Dominiek Sandra • Bram Vandekerckhove

Exemplary Lives. The Tension between the Historiographical and the Hagiographical Discourse in the Devotio Moderna. University of Antwerp Abstract: --Organisations: • Research centre Ruusbroec Institute

Researchers: • Thomas Mertens

Exemplary Reading. Printed Renaissance Commentaries on Valerius Maximus1470-1600. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Latin Literature and Seminarium Philolog

Researchers: • Jan Papy • Marijke Crab

Expanded documentary University College Ghent Abstract: What can contemporary developments in media and installation art for documentary filmmakers do? In the 1970 Gene Youngblood stated in his visionary book, Expanded Cinema how many new-media experiments can evoke not only radically different perceptions, but can offer the audiovisual media a whole new meaning and a wider horizon. Through this research project, both promoters (respectively from their expertise in anthropological documentary and media theory) will explore these research questions in a contemporary documentary context. This project is reflecting an international trend in recent years, which is characterized by a quest for alternative reflective frameworks and visual strategies. Medial exhibits provide this in a large registry of alternative presentation formats (consider the example of interactive and generative systems, and dynamic three-dimensional visualization). This research project will, starting from the artistic practice of Jasmina Fekovic, Sarah Vanagt and Laurent Van Lancker, consider how a dialogue between documentary, media art and theory can generate a surplus. The central research question is: how can this team explore media techniques

and logics as a tool for expanding documentary approaches? How can we further develop a reflection or criticism of the existing design or artistic tradition through visual quotes, alienation effects or reenactments? How can the documentary installations stimulate the work in a sensory and embodied approach to evoke experiences of dislocation, fractures (in place, culture, time)? Organisations: • Faculty of Fine Arts • Department of Theoretical framework of the Arts Practice • Department of Audio-Visual arts

Researchers: • An van Dienderen • Robrecht Vanderbeeken

Expanding the Online Froissart, a resource for the study of late-medieval book production University of Antwerp Abstract: A lot of scholarly attention has recently been paid to medieval book production. It was complex to produce the voluminous manuscripts that survive from e.g. early fifteenth century Paris. A major scholarly problem involves the scribes of manuscripts: sometimes up to 20 copyists seem to have contributed to a copy, but their handwritings can be extremely difficult to distinguish. Developing objective methodologies to discriminate between these fellow scribes, is therefore an important challenge in medieval studies. In my PhD I have argued for the potential of "stylometric" approaches in this respect. Typically scribes adopted a highly individual spelling profile in such a consequent way that algorithms are often able to automatically detect a scribe's handwriting in a previously unseen copy. Such text-based identifications can be achieved using a combination of quantitative techniques from Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence. The Online Froissart is a valuable digital resource in this respect, presenting a machine-readable edition of many early fifteenth century, Parisian manuscripts of the Chroniques by Jean Froissart. This Small Project targets the focused expansion of the Online Froissart, because it is ideal for research into the text-based recognition of late-medieval scribes. In a variety of ways, the present proposal complements my recently started postdoc project, in which linguistic scribal attributions are a major interest. Organisations: • Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

Researchers: • Mike Kestemont

Expel or subsidise? Local policies towards newcomers in the Southern Low Countries, c. 1700-1900 Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Aim This project aims to provide a comparative analysis of the motivations, interests and impact of local policies towards newcomers in the Southern Low Countries in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The processes of proletarianisation and economic integration which characterised this period stimulated increased labour mobility, which gave rise to growing tensions in various economic, social, political and culturalideological domains. In this context the reception of newcomers became a contentious issue, in which different groups had different - often conflicting - interests. These tensions and interests were situated primarily at the level of local policy, which in many respects remained the prime policymaking level throughout the period in question. The great diversity in regional and local contexts and conflicts of interest ensured that the policies pursued displayed great variety through time and space, ranging from deportation to subsidisation. With this project I intend primarily to analyse the causes and impacts of these variations in local policy, in a long-term perspective which allows an assessment of the influence of structural social change in the transformation from preindustrial to industrial society, with due attention to the role of geographical and diachronic variation. As such, the proposed research project aims both to provide a historical perspective to current debates on the position of newcomers in contemporary society and to link up with the revived historical interest in issues regarding the reception and integration of migrants in early modern and early industrial cities. Context One of the major topics to exercise opinions and conflicting interests with regard to newcomers in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, was that of social policy in general and poor relief in particular. Since relief arrangements continued to be organised primarily on a local basis throughout this period, newcomers represented a potential burden on local resources. At the same time, employers had an interest in large and suitable supplies of labour, which were provided among other means by immigration. The growing tensions in this domain gave rise to increasing regulations as to who was, and was not, entitled to relief provisions in a given place: so-called settlement legislation, which was extended considerably in the course of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries in different European regions (Settlement Laws in England and Wales, Heimatrecht in the German areas, onderstandswoonst in the Low Countries, domicile de secours in France). In its most general terms, settlement legislation determined which local authority was responsible for a person's assistance - with place of birth and/or length of residence as the most typical criteria. Although settlement legislation was long considered a brake on labour mobility, the many variations in local policy which have been uncovered primarily in the case of England have led to a more mixed evaluation in this respect. Although the legislative framework was generally provided at a national level, there was considerable room for local variations. Local room for manoeuvre extended from determining the precise criteria by which new settlement rights could be obtained, to providing intermediate solutions whereby relief costs incurred by an immigrant would be reimbursed by the relief authority of his or her settlement, or newcomers could be required to pay a warranty upon arrival. Depending on circumstances, local authorities were free either to provide newcomers' relief from their own funds, to request reimbursement of relief paid out, or to have relief applicants sent back to their place of settlement. In practice, settlement legislation provided local authorities with the means to pursue a selective migration policy. How, why and to what extent this was the case, are questions which have so far received little attention in Belgian historiography, but which nonetheless constitute an area of interest which in other countries, too, rarely transcended the local or, at the best, national framework. The importance of settlement legislation and related issues for the social and economic history of early modern and nineteenth-century Europe in general and for the Southern Low Countries in particular can hardly be overestimated, and extends into several areas of general historical interest. Not only did the spatial demarcation of relief entitlements constitute the unresolved nucleus of virtually all domains of social policy in this period, but at the same time settlement legislation and practices had a direct impact on migration decisions, and, by extension, on the allocation of labour. To the extent that relief transfers under settlement legislation resulted in a subsidisation of labour by backward regions to the benefit of economic growth poles, the theme also links up with debates on the functioning of labour markets in early industrial development. At the same time, the settlement theme links up with debates on the reception and integration of newcomers in early modern and early industrial cities. Organisations: • History

Researchers: • Anne WINTER

Experience and Religion in the Thought of William James KU Leuven Abstract: In recent decades, questions on the status of religion and on the nature of religious experience have animated philosophical debates, across different areas and approaches, from French phenomenology to post-structuralism, from analytical philosophy to cognitive science. However, one of the earliest and most influential figures in the field is the psychologist and philosopher William James (1842-1910). His work "The Varieties ofReligious Experience" (1902) not only offers an accurate description ofdifferent types of religious experiences, but also questions the

notions of experience, truth and human understanding. The value of this work has been often relegated to its psychological insights, and only a few have examined its philosophical importance. Besides its intrinsic value and methodological originality, Varieties constitutes a keywork for James#oeuvre and continues to challenge contemporary debates. This research project then aims at exploring Varieties, first through a historical Organisations: • Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenolo

Researchers: • N. N. • Nicolas Fernando de Warren

Experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting in the light of meaning-making: a practical theologica research KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical

Researchers: • Annemie Dillen • Judith Cockx

Experiential differences in the neural representation of word meaning: the impact of bodily and personal experience on action verb semantics. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: According to theories of Embodied Cognition (EC), word meaning is partly represented by the same perceptuo-motor systems used for perceiving and acting upon the referents of the linguistic utterance. Support for EC comes from work showing that reading action verbs like kick activates leg-areas in the premotor cortex. However, if EC is correct, any experiential differences in perceptuo-motor systems should be reflected in the semantic representations they support. One instance of this idea, the Body Specificity Hypothesis [BSH; 6], predicts that differences in manual action execution between leftand right-handers lead to corresponding differences in manual action verb representation. Despite correlational evidence for this claim, causal support remains lacking. Moreover, it is unclear whether the BSH is part of a broader principle of experiential differences impacting on language processing. Here I propose a series of experiments that manipulate neural activity in dominant hand motor-areas of left- and right-handers while they process standard English (Exp. 1-2) or newly acquired (Exp. 3-4) manual action verbs. These data will provide the first causal evidence for the impact of body-specific and experiential differences on the neural representation of word meaning. As such, the current work provides an important theoretical contribution to theories of EC and to our understanding of the neurobiology of language as a whole. Organisations: • Language and literature

Researchers: • Alexis HOUSEN

Experimentation vs. Interpretation: Exploring New Paths in Music Performance in the Twenty-First Century KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Musicology, Leuven

Researchers: • David Burn • Lucia D'Errico

Expertise Network teacher AUGent: Project Teaching Methodology: peer group history Ghent University Abstract: not available Organisations: • Department of History

Researchers: • Bruno De Wever

Expertise on Legal Aspects of Organ Trafficking and THB for the Removal of Organs Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Trafficking in human beings for the purpose of organ removal (THB/OR) has long remained a subject of rumour and unconfirmed reports. Since the 1980s, however, a growing body of fieldwork and other research by journalists and medical anthropologists has documented cases of such trafficking, particularly in the past fifteen years, as the demand for organs continues to grow. That research has shed light on this phenomenon, in part, through detailed portraits of victims, recipients and those engaged in directing or otherwise furthering the organ removal networks. Patients in wealthier countries, languishing on waiting lists, are increasingly travelling abroad to obtain the required organ. The victimdonors are generally suffering from acute poverty and are deceived or coerced by the trafficking networks into giving up an organ for a mere fraction of the money the recipient has paid the traffickers. Organisations: • Philosophy - Moral Sciences • Metajuridica

Researchers: • Sigrid STERCKX • Kristof VAN ASSCHE • SERGE GUTWIRTH

Expiring rhetoric: expression theory in the Anglo-American academy and its discursive context, 1880s-1920s. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Literature and Culture, Leuven

Researchers: • Luc Van der Stockt • Sascha Bru • Matthias Somers

Explaining the great litigation decline. The impact of social-economic change on litigation patterns in Bruges and the Liberty of Bruges (1650-1800) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Historians across Europe have identified an intriguing phenomenon in litigation patterns. In the long sixteenth century European law courts at various levels were characterised by a dramatic increase in the number of cases they heard--a so?called 'legal revolution'. However, during the seventeenth century the courts saw a marked decrease in the volume of litigation, a 'great litigation decline'. No historian has yet developed a convincing explanation for this striking decline in the demand for legal services. This project proposes a new hypothesis, notably that the gradual impoverishment that characterised broad segments of middling groups during the early modern period is central to the explanation of the great decline in litigation. In the long sixteenth century social groups from the lower middling ranks of society were to great extent responsible for the dramatic increase in lawsuits. These sections of middling groups impoverished during the early modern period, thereby affording significantly fewer occasions for litigation. The project improves our understanding of changing litigation patterns and changes in social and economic relations across Europe. The city of Bruges and its surrounding rural region during the seventeenth and eighteenth century are used as case studies, as their juridical and social-economic configuration allows for a comparative research design that is necessary for testing the proposed hypothesis. Organisations: • History

Researchers: • Ans VERVAEKE • Griet VERMEESCH

Explanation in mathematics. A philosophical analysis of the explanatory force of mathematical proofs and visualizations and their role in scientific explanations. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: This project proposes a systematic analysis of the existence and nature of mathematical explanation in science. The research object consists of cases where mathematical claims are an essential component in a scientific explanation. Organisations: • Philosophy - Moral Sciences

Researchers: • Bart VAN KERKHOVE

Exploitation of CGN annotation for portability to new information sources. University of Antwerp Abstract: Exploitation of CGN annotation for portability to new information sources. Organisations: • Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)

Researchers: • Guy De Pauw

Exploiting space-scale separation in a multiscale method for plastic deformation of polycrystalline materials KU Leuven Abstract: ZKC0318 / IDO/08/009 Ontwikkeling van een geoptimaliseerd meerschalenmodel voor de simulatievan plastische vormgeving van metalen Organisations: • Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathemati

Researchers: • Dirk Roose • Paul Van Houtte

Exploiting unconventional QR-algorithms for fast and accurate computations of roots of polynomials KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathemati

Researchers: • Raphaël Vandebril • Thomas Mach

Exploration of an integrated zone for Sino-European cultural Exchange during the Early Qing Dynasty KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Sinology, Leuven

Researchers: • Nicolas Standaert • Yanrong Chen

Exploring probabilistic grammar(s) in varieties of English around the world. KU Leuven Abstract: The project is situated at the crossroads of research on English as a World Language, usage-based theoretical linguistics, variationist linguistics, and cognitive sociolinguistics. It specifically marries the spiritof the PROBABILISTIC GRAMMAR FRAMEWORK (which posits that grammatical knowledge is experience-based and partially probabilistic) to research along the lines of the ENGLISH WORLD-WIDE PARADIGM (which is concerned with the dialectology and sociolinguistics of post-colonial English-speaking communities around the world). The overarching objective is to understand the lectal plasticity of probabilistic knowledge of English grammar,on the part of language users with diverse regional and cultural backgrounds. Empirically, the project taps into a large corpus database sampling naturalistic language usage in some ten different varieties of English, and conducts a supplementary rating-task experiment. Utilizing modernanalysis, modeling, and interpretation techniques, the project aims Organisations: • Quantitative Lexicology and Variational

Researchers:

• Benedikt Szmrecsanyi

Exploring the Crisis Years: Stratification and Social-Economic Transformation in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Bronze - Iron Age Transition (1200 - 950 B.C.) KU Leuven Abstract: In the Eastern Mediterranean, the transition from the Late Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age was precipitated by a disastrous cultural decline and historical disruption. Traditionally, the Sea Peoples have been held responsible for much of the trouble. Evidence from a series of new excavations suggests that the Sea Peoples established themselves along thecoast of the Levant and in large stretches of its hinterland, where they can be distinguished from local groups by specific pottery styles, reel-shaped loom weights and some architectural features, revealing a signature material culture with obvious Aegean features.Although the era after the invasion of the Sea Peoples is usually called The Dark Age, there is presently a general agreement that this was not only a period of cultural devolution, political disintegration and ethnic conflicts, but also a period of transformation, innovation and settlement continuity.Recently excavated evidence indicates changes in settlement patterns an Organisations: • Near Eastern Studies, Leuven

Researchers: • Joachim Bretschneider

Exploring the Role of Personality in Psychological Maturity and Spiritual Growth: A Comparative Study among Catholic Seminarians and Young Male Nonseminarians in India KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Clinical Psychology

Researchers: • Jozef Corveleyn • Jessie Dezutter • Jobi Thomas Thurackal

Exposition d'art contemporain à Seoul à l'occasion de l'exposition internationele de YEOSU 2012 (Wanderlust) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: After Seoul last summer, two other major Asian cities, Gwangju and Chengdu, will be hosting the exhibition "WANDERLUST : A Never Ending Journey to the Other Side of the Hill" in early 2013. The exhibition is a showcase of the works of five great Brussels and Belgian contemporary artists: Marcel Broodthaers, Joëlle Tuerlinckx, Honoré d'O, Francis Alÿs and Panamarenko. The Brussels-Capital Region mounted Wanderlust on the occasion of the International Expo in Yeosu in 2012, in partnership with the federal Belgian state and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), the Free University of Brussels. 02-2013-evenements-2.6 "Le collier de perles" ("The Pearl Necklace") by Honoré d'O, which was specially created for the Wanderlust exhibition, in the hall of the Gwangju Art Museum. The exhibition was on display in the magical setting of the Artsonje Center in Seoul, from 22 June until 12 August 2012, and was a big success. Yun Ik, the curator of the Gwangju Museum of Art, an impressive contemporary art museum, was so charmed by the exhibition that he insisted that it should visit his city, which is known throughout Asia for its Biennial. The exhibition opened on 17 January 2013, in the presence of the city's Mayor, the Belgian Ambassador to South Korea and the artists Joëlle Tuerlinckx and Honoré d'O. On 31 March, Wanderlust will close in Gwangju to reopen in China, on 18 April, in Chengdu, the fascinating capital of the Province of Szechuan, which is developing at a frenetic pace. The third and final stage of the exhibition will take place against the elegant backdrop of the Museum Of Contemporary Art (MOCA), thanks to the enthusiasm of its curator, Lu Peng, an expert on Chinese contemporary art. An international conference, gathering artists and representatives of academia from Seoul, Gwangju, Chengdu and Brussels, will simultaneously be held on 19 and 20 April. A publication covering the three stages of Wanderlust, each with their own peculiarities, will mark the end of this exceptional run. The small but elegant Wanderlust exhibition was developed by a professor of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Hans De Wolf, who is a contemporary art expert. Certain works, such as the "Pearl Necklace" by Honoré d'O (Photo), were specially created for the occasion. The "Pearl Necklace" by Honoré d'O in Seoul Wanderlust, which is probably the most beautiful word in the German language, refers to the profound desire to leave the conventions of everyday life behind and explore new horizons. The desire to see whether the grass is greener on the other side is as old as humanity. In the early nineteenth century, it took on a whole new significance when the artists of German Romanticism incorporated this Wanderlust as a key concept in their struggle against the cold rational legacy of the Enlightenment. What a splendid accomplishment for an exhibition with such an evocative name to have made this long journey between four cities, each so different yet so alike in the way they wish to decipher codes and discover other cultures and different ways of thinking! Organisations: • Art Sciences and Archaeology

Researchers: • Hans DE WOLF

Extended drawing within embryonic design KU Leuven Abstract: Extended Drawing, a metaphor to describe unconventional, unorthodox, ornon-traditional drawing techniques or implementations of drawing instruments to obtain unusual images or visual textures. The project inquires a changed attitude towards the process of drawing architecture. Through the proliferation of digital drawing and editing tools, the emergence of online search engines and the availability of digital photographyseems to have changed the status and value attributed to handmade drawings. Combining literature and practice, the project inquires a change inattitude towards graphical exploration and thinking within emerging spatial design. Organisations: • Department of Architecture

Researchers: • Ann Heylighen • Sven Sterken • Robin Schaeverbeke

Extraction of rare earths from alkaline aqueous solutions by ionic liquids KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Molecular Design and Synthesis

Researchers: • Koen Binnemans • Bart Blanpain • Thomas Van Gerven

Eye-tracking in interpreter-mediated interaction KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse

Researchers: • Kurt Feyaerts • Geert Brône • Jelena Vranjes

Fabric of life. The infrastructure of settler colonialism in Palestine Ghent University Abstract: Taking stock from literature on urban studies, settler colonialism and political economy, the dissertation looks at the histories and geographies of infrastructure networks (electricity and roads) to explore spatial modalities of settler colonialism and uneven development in Palestine. In particular it studies how infrastructures are co-produced and governed and how they advance political and socioe-conomic segregation and inequality in practice. Organisations: • Department of Third World studies

Researchers: • Sami Zemni

Fabrique du patrimoine littéraire: collection "Les Albums de la Pléiade' KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Literature and Culture, Leuven

Researchers: • David Martens • Marcela Scibiorska

Facilitating regional learning processes in a competitive environment: Regional socio-economic and cultural development in three accession countries and three member states (RENCOM) http://www.vub.ac.be/SOCO/tesa/intro.htm Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: This thematic network wants to stimulate regional learning processes. Its objectives are: 1. To explore the parameters of an effective non-hierachical multi-level regional learning dynamic which is encompassing in two senses: fostering 'support-led' regional growth and contributing to the accession dossiers of the enlargement candidates; 2. To contribute to the European 'structural indicators' discussion as a tool for the European integration process and to highlight its importance in stimulating regional development; 3. To create a European network on regional systems of socio-economic innovation; 4. To assure the sustainability of the networking efforts through an interactive website that continues to be operational after the duration of the project. See our website: http://www.vub.ac.be/SOCO/tesa/rencom.htm Organisations: • Social Research

Researchers: • JACQUES VILROKX

Factors Contributing to Success in Blended Learning - The Case of Language Teaching and Training in Academic and Professional Contexts; University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand Erasmus Mundus. UA provides Erasmus Mundus research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. Organisations: • Antwerp Center for Pragmatics (IPrA Research Center)

Researchers: • Christel Van De Poel

Factors Contributing to Success in Blended Learning - The Case of Language Teaching and Training in Academic and Professional Contexts. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand Erasmus Mundus. UA provides Erasmus Mundus research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. Organisations: • Antwerp Center for Pragmatics (IPrA Research Center)

Researchers: • Christel Van De Poel

Factory literary heritage. Study collections of biographical essays illustrated in France (1944-2000). KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Literature and Culture, Leuven

Researchers: • David Martens

Farmers and the market in Flanders, 1750-1900. The market in Flemish rural society, the commercialisation of agriculture and the battle for the market, during the transition from a traditional to an integrated economy Ghent University Abstract: The concrete 'market', i.e. the place where agricultural products were weekly bought and sold, is at the centre of this research. Such markets functioned differently and had a different 'function' as often assumed. This research looks at the market in an integrated way (economically, politically, socially), in order to understand the role of this mechanism in Flemish rural society better. Organisations: • Departement of Modern history

Researchers: • Eric Vanhaute

Farming in tropical Africa. Agricultural science and knowledge networksin Belgian Congo, 1908-1960. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Modernity & Society 1800-2000, Leuven

Researchers: • Yves Segers • Helena Van Molle

Fashionably Late? Economic growth and time awareness in early modern Europe (Antwerp & Amsterdam, 16th-18th century) University of Antwerp Abstract: The project explores the (assumed) link between time awareness and economic growth, by carefully comparing the development in two commercial hubs (Amsterdam & Antwerp) in a long-term perspective (early sixteenth to late eighteenth century) Due to this pioneering modus operandi, we aim to participate in some heated discussions on the nature, causes, and effects of the industrious and industrial revolution in early modern Europe. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Gerrit Verhoeven

Fathers Oblates of Mary Immaculate in Belgium, from the Beginning to 1970 KU Leuven Abstract: Based upon the sources preserved at archives of Oblate provinces, at the archives of the General House of Rome and at diocesan archives, this doctoral dissertation aims to understand the development and the evolution of the religious congregation of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate (OMI) in Belgium from 1905 until 1970. The method that wil be used is the historical-critical method of historians on original sources. The context will be clarified by the use of published literature on the subject and on the history of the Church in our country. I will make use of statistical analysis, text analysis methods and prosopography. This thesis situates itself in the context of the history of religious missionary congregations in contemporary era and in the current methodology of the history of evangelization. Organisations: • Research Unit of History of Church and T

Researchers: • Dries Vanysacker • Eddy Louchez

Fécondité de la pensée théologique de Karl Rahner pour une théologie del'art KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Research Unit of Systematic Theology and

Researchers: • Peter De Mey • N. N.

Federalism, Nationality and Justice - A Normative Theory of Federalism for Multinational States KU Leuven Abstract: This project will attempt to map out a normative political theory of federalism, relating to its use in the accommodation of national minorities within multi-national states. A key objective of the research will be to investigate the ways in which a federal solution may be preferable toa unitary nation-state or to secession and multiple unitary polities incurrent multinational state contexts such as Canada, Spain, Belgium or the United Kingdom. By tracing the history of federalist ideas and institutions I aim to demonstrate how, why and when federalism has been justified as an appropriate institutional tool to meet the demands of national groups, whilst complying and fostering the political norms of autonomos self-determination, ethnocultural justice and democratic legitimacy.Beyond mapping the histrical arguments for federal solutions in such circumstances though, I would also strive to formulate a contemporary normative theory that analyses the ideal institutional arrangements, the

Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Antoon Vandevelde • Helder De Schutter • Michael Jewkes

Federalism, Nationality and Justice: A Normative Theory of the Attribution of Distributive Responsabilities between Different Levels of Government KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Antoon Vandevelde • Helder De Schutter • Jean-Francois Gregoire

Federalism, nationality and justice: a politico-philosophical study of the value of federalism in the present political constellation. KU Leuven Abstract: Federalism divides powers between a central government and two or more subunits, such that each level has sovereign authority over certain issues. After a long period of neglect, in the past decade political philosophers have started to reflect on federalism, although a full-fledged normative political theory of federalism has not yet been worked out. This recent philosophical interest in federalism has coincided with the emergence of a theoretical interest in the accommodation of nations within larger political units, more specifically in (i) multinational states likeBelgium, Canada or Spain, and (ii) transnational policial communities such as the EU. In particular, federalism in such constellations is typically understood and advocated as a political mechanism to cope with the existence of multiple nations within one political community. Both debates ("domestic multinational" and "transnational" federalism) overlap extensively and tackle similar issues.The objective of the proposed r Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Helder De Schutter

Federalism, Nationality and Justice: A Politico-Philosophical Study of the Value of Federalism in the Present Political Constellation. KU Leuven Abstract: Federalism divides powers between a central government and two or more subunits, such that each level has sovereign authority over certain issues. After a long period during which federalism was uniquely researched within empirical fields of study like law or political science, in the past few years political philosophers have started to reflect on federal arrangements, although a full-fledged normative political theory of federalism has not yet been worked out. It is the objective of the proposed project to develop such a theory.The recent interest in the policitophilosophical dimensions of federalism has coincided with the emergenceof a theoretical interest in the accommodation of nations within largerpolitical units, more specifically in (i) multinational states like Belgium, Canada or Spain, and (ii) transnational political communities suchas the EU. In particular, federalism in such constellations is typically understood and advocated as a political mechanism to cope with the exi Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Antoon Vandevelde • Helder De Schutter

Female authorship and authority in late medieval and early modern vernacular sermons from the Low Countries. University of Antwerp Abstract: The project aims to investigate female authorship and authority within the complete genre of Dutch 'father confessor sermons' of the 1 5th and 16th centuries. This typically clerical (and therefore male) genre has almost exclusively been handed down by sister scribes. Recent research has shown that these women made substantial creative contributions to the written sermons. Therefore they are exceptionally important for a better understanding of female authorship and female religious authority, often linked to it. The main research questions are: what is the contribution of the sisters to the textualization of sermons? To what extent were they able to leave their own mark on these texts and derive religious authority from their writings? Is there any divergence between convents and is there continuity or change in the course of time as a result of religious and other evolutions? Organisations: • Research centre Ruusbroec Institute

Researchers: • Thomas Mertens • Petronella Stoop • Theodorus Clemens

Female devotion, male commitment? The rise of Cistercian women and the provision of the cura monialium in the Southern Low Countries, 1150-1275. Ghent University Abstract: My project aims to study the emergence of Cistercian nunneries between 1150 and 1275 in the Southern Low Countries. I will examine the spiritual ideals that inspired these communities for women and the process by which they became part of the Cistercian order. I will also explore the culture of support amongst Cistercian monks and local bishops for these women. Organisations: • Department of History

Researchers: • Jeroen Deploige

Female genital cutting as a religious identity marker among Coptic and Muslim women in Egypt. Ghent University Abstract: This proposal wants to contribute to our understanding of female religious agency concerning female genital cutting through analysis of religious discourse and ethnographic research among Coptic and Muslim women in Egypt. It focuses on women's negotiation with both

internal societal religious and Westernized forces. The project wants to contribute to theorizing of the interplay of gender, religion and agency. Organisations: • Departement of Comparative sciences of culture

Researchers: • Chia Longman

Female networking in Antwerp during the seventeenth and eighteenth century, "hidden" social capital? University of Antwerp Abstract: The research project that Ellen Decraene is currently working on is entitled "Female networking in Antwerp during the 17th and 18th centuries" and has as main aim is to integrate the gender perspective in studies of social capital. It will try to trace the impact of social, economic and religious evolutions on the normative and practical access to women's networks, both formal and informal. More specifically, the way female social relations responded to changes in women's labour possibilities, changes in social status and the supposed rise of the ideal of domesticity, will be examined. Until recently, historians often tended to maintain the dichotomy of the female private sphere as opposed to the male public sphere. In contrast, this research covers female as well as male networks. By incorporating questions about the role of marriage on female networks and about the boundaries between male and female networks the male-female dichotomy is transcended, which opens the way for new insights into the role of gender in the production of social capital. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Bert De Munck • Guido Marnef • Ellen Decraene

Female networking in early modern Aalst: 'hidden' social capital? University of Antwerp Abstract: The project aims to examine the (development of) networks of women (and men) in a small early modern city during the 17th and 18th century. We aim to examine economic as well as non-economic networks (e.g. guilds and confraternities) and formal as well as informal relations (neighborhood relations, family relations, bonds of friendship). These developments will be contextualized by taking into consideration the possible influences of changes in women's position in the household economy on the broader social and economic networks of female actors and vice versa. During this research we will also pay attention to the networks of male actors in order to get grip on the differences and or similarities in networking according to gender . By integrating a cultural as well as an economic and social approach towards the social relations of unmarried and married women (and men) we will take a necessary and refreshing step towards a better understanding of women's social and economic agency at the intersection of social and domestic life. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Bruno Blondé • Bert De Munck • Ellen Decraene

Female networking in early modern Aalst: "hidden" social capital? University of Antwerp Abstract: The project aims to examine the (development of) networks of women (and men) in a small early modern city during the 17th and 18th century. We aim to examine economic as well as non-economic networks (e.g. guilds and confraternities) and formal as well as informal relations (neighborhood relations, family relations, bonds of friendship). These developments will be contextualized by taking into consideration the possible influences of changes in women's position in the household economy on the broader social and economic networks of female actors and vice versa. During this research we will also pay attention to the networks of male actors in order to get grip on the differences and or similarities in networking according to gender . By integrating a cultural as well as an economic and social approach towards the social relations of unmarried and married women (and men) we will take a necessary and refreshing step towards a better understanding of women's social and economic agency at the intersection of social and domestic life. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Bruno Blondé • Bert De Munck • Ellen Decraene

Feminism, Domesticity and Imperialism in the Fiction of Flora Annie Steel KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Text and Interpretation, Leuven

Researchers: • Elke D'hoker • Aditi Chand Rout

Ferociously female Kali in Kerala: from tribal to deity to pan-Hindu goddess. Reviewing a religious process of assimilation and co-optation in a feminine context. Ghent University Abstract: This project will provide a contextualized study of goddess worship in the South Indian state Kerala. We will reconstruct the centuries-long evolution that purged a tribal deity from her folklore characteristics and show how goddesses at the margins have succeeded in gaining a place at the central Hindu pantheon. Simultaneously our results will be embedded in Kerala's unique feminine history. Organisations: • Departement of Languages and cultures of South and East Asia

Researchers: • Eva De Clercq

F+ Grant for Carlo Invernizzi Accetti at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies KU Leuven

Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Institute for International Law

Researchers: • Jan Wouters

F+ Grant for Joris Larik at the Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Institute for International Law

Researchers: • Jan Wouters

Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre 1794 as a metaphysical ground for the relevance concept of truth in the philosphy of A. Schütz and R. Boehm. Ghent University Abstract: Fichte's Wissenschaftslehre 1794 as a metaphysical ground for the relevance concept of truth in the philosphy of A. Schütz and R. Boehm. Organisations: • Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Gertrudis Van de Vijver

Fiction and friction in the front zone. The First World War in Belgian Literature. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Translation and Intercultural Transfer,

Researchers: • Elke Brems • Myrthel Van Etterbeeck

Fictions of the Great War in French Literature Ghent University Abstract: this project aims to research the representations en writing procedures of novels from 3 periods of the twentieth century who were witness to a remarkable literary production with WW I as their main subject (1914-1918, interbellum, present day). Intertextuality, the relation between narration and description, the form of realism, the propagated values and the characteristic structures present themselves as important lines of research Organisations: • Departement of French

Researchers: • Pierre Schoentjes

Fighting crime and corruption? Police forces, army and society in Late Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Ancient History, Leuven

Researchers: • Katelijn Vandorpe • Sofie Waebens

Fighting educational underachievement through language support: inside AND outside the school? KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Centre for Language and Education, Leuve

Researchers: • Koen Van Gorp • Kristiaan Van den Branden • Goedele Vandommele

Fighting ethnic minority students' underachievement in education through language support: inside or outside the school? KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Centre for Language and Education, Leuve

Researchers: • Kristiaan Van den Branden

Figuring out the God of Job: Indexing and Interpreting Metaphor in the Conceptualisation of the Divine in the Book of Job KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Research Unit of Biblical Studies

Researchers:

• Pierre Van Hecke • Johan de Joode

Film as audiovisual composition? University College Ghent Abstract: “Sound is 50% of a film, at least; sometimes 100%. It is the thing that can add so much emotion to a film. It's a thing that can add all the mood and create a larger world. It sets the tone and it moves things. It has great pull into a world – The sound... without it you've lost half the film.” In this quote by David Lynch, we see a reversal of hierarchy between auditive and visual elements. Lynch himself often makes sound break loose from its utilitarian straitjacket which was once conceived alongside the sound-film by the American film industry: for exclusively economical reasons in the entertainment business, sound was only added at the very end of the production process, subordinating it to narrative and image. Even today, film is said to be part of ‘visual culture’, it has ‘spectators’, and we ‘watch’ films. It is, however, incontrovertible that a film is also listened to, and the auditive plays a substantial part in film. At the very beginning of sound-film, numerous film makers, composers and theoreticians were indeed aware of the possibilities to synchronise sound and vision in a non-hierarchical fashion. This project aims to examine film as an audiovisual composition, in which sound is not perforce subordinated to image or narrative. Sensory perceptions “Sound is 50% of a film, at least; sometimes 100%. It is the thing that can add so much emotion to a film. It's a thing that can add all the mood and create a larger world. It sets the tone and it moves things. It has great pull into a world – The sound... without it you've lost half the film.” In this quote by David Lynch, we see a reversal of hierarchy between auditive and visual elements. Lynch himself often makes sound break loose from its utilitarian straitjacket which was once conceived alongside the sound-film by the American film industry: for exclusively economical reasons in the entertainment business, sound was only added at the very end of the production process, subordinating it to narrative and image. Even today, film is said to be part of ‘visual culture’, it has ‘spectators’, and we ‘watch’ films. It is, however, incontrovertible that a film is also listened to, and the auditive plays a substantial part in film. At the very beginning of sound-film, numerous film makers, composers and theoreticians were indeed aware of the possibilities to synchronise sound and vision in a non-hierarchical fashion. This project aims to examine film as an audiovisual composition, in which sound is not perforce subordinated to image or narrative. Sensory perceptions can in fact transcend cognitive recognition. In such a composition it is an experience rather than a meaning that is being conveyed. It is, subsequently, not merely a matter of combined filmic elements, but of the essence of these elements: their internal, energetic dynamism. This is in keeping with Deleuze’s aesthetics of intensities, in which he claims film makers primarily think in terms of images and sounds, combining these in idiosyncratic ways not necessarily referring to the linguistic model. ‘La référence au modèle linguistique est un détour dont il est souhaitable de se dépasser,’ Deleuze laments. Our inquiry mainly focuses on the sound track and assumes ‘inner movement’ as its starting point. All too often, ‘inner movement’ is automatically linked with ‘emotions’, but is this necessarily so? We propose these questions: What, exactly, is that inner movement? How can it be represented? Is that inner movement represented through music, or through the sound track as a whole? What, then, is the nature of the relationship between the auditive and the visual? Is this governed by certain ‘rules’ of composition? How significant a part does the interaction between sound and vision play in this? How should we speak about this (terminology)? Can we, in fact, speak of film as an audiovisual composition? We aim to propose a terminology and a methodology of analysis applicable to both sound track analysis and the creative process; for film makers, composers and sound designers. Organisations: • Faculty of Fine Arts • Department of Theoretical framework of the Arts Practice • Department of Audio-Visual arts

Researchers: • Martine Huvenne • Helena De Preester

Final report for supporting the policy discussion regarding broadband living labs Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The objective of this research is to provide an overview, conceptualization and benchmark analysis of integrated open platforms for innovatie, as they currently exist throughout Europe and the world. The final report introduces the generic term of 'Test and Experimentation Platforms' (TEPs) to indicate facilities, processes and methodologies for joint innovation including testing, prototyping and confronting technology with usage situations. It focuses on open and innovation-oriented platforms that involve various technology and service providers as well as users in different stages of technology design, development and testing. Organisations: • Studies on Media Information & Telecommunication • Communication Sciences

Researchers: • CAROLINE PAUWELS • Jos PIERSON • PIETER BALLON

Financial fraud prevention-oriented information resources using ontology technonolgy Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: This project aims at compiling for several languages (Dutch, Italian, French and English) a computationally tractable and sharable knowledge repository (= a formally described combination of concepts and their meaningful relationships) for the financial forensics domain. This resource (= ontology),or parts of it, may be commercially exploited as a set of Semantic Web services. The ontology may be an eXtended Mark-up Language database or an Resource Description Framework Schema instance. Organisations: • Software Technology and Application Research

Researchers: • ROBERT MEERSMAN

Financial Historical Analysis of Stock Exchange Related Data on the Belgian companies in Congo during the period 18911960. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project aims to analyse the Belgian companies in Congo quoted at the Brussels Stock Exchange from 1891 until 1960. The long term database (UA) allows to analyse the price and dividend evolution of the different companies and sectors of the Congolese economy. The case of the Congo-based companies offers a perfect opportunity to examine investment strategies towards such emerging (colonial) markets as well as several questions such as profitability, use of economic surplus and strategies of sectoral diversification. Organisations: • Institute of Development Policy and Management - other • Political Economy of the Great Lakes Region of Central Africa

Researchers:

• Stefaan Marysse

Fine-Grained Sentiment and Opinion Mining of Political Social Network Messages University of Antwerp Abstract: This project aims to develop an annotated corpus for the purpose of fine-grained sentiment and opinion mining of social network messages. As a case study, we will monitor messages on politics in the run-up to the 2014 Belgian elections. We will annotate not only the sentiment expressed in the message in a more robust way, but also mark information on the opinion holder, the object of the opinion and the features of the object. Organisations: • Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)

Researchers: • Guy De Pauw

Finishing manuscript "Radicalizing Enactivism. University of Antwerp Abstract: This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. Organisations: • Centre for Philosophical Psychology

Researchers: • Erik Myin

Finishing two book projects: *Devorando a Cuba* and *Cinco ensayos sobre narrativa dominicana contemporánea*. University of Antwerp Abstract: In "Devorando a lo cubano"¨a gastrocritical approach, i.e. an interpretation based on culinary references in a dialogue with other approaches, is applied to a series of narrative texts that are dealing with Cuba in the nineteenth century and in the so called Special Period in Cuba (from 1990 on). "Cinco ensayos sobre narrativa dominicana contemporánea" treats issues as the city, diasporaq and the historical trauma caused by Trujillo's dictatorship. Organisations: • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Rita De Maeseneer

FIRST DEMONSTRATION OF THE OCCURRENCE OF PAN-COLONIC PRESSURIZATION ASSOCIATED WITH RELAXATION OF THE ANAL SPHINCTER IN HEALTHY SUBJECTS. A RELEVANT PHYSIOLOGICAL MECHANISM ABSENT IN A SUBGROUP OF PATIENTS WITH CHRONIC IDIOPHATIC CONSTIPATION? KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Translational Research in GastroIntestin

Researchers: • Jan Tack

First food, then morals: the impact of (new) media on the ongoing decline in commensality, and the consequences on the development and activation of moral attitudes and moral behaviour University of Antwerp Abstract: Due to an increase in television consumption, family meals are in decline. This also implies a loss in daily rituals of moral socialization, which might explain why low frequencies in family meal consumption correlate with lower psychological wellbeing. This project aims to investigate the relation between commensality, morality and wellbeing, with a focus on new media, and commensality outside the family context as new research angles. Organisations: • Media & ICT/Interpersonal relations in Organisations & Society (MIOS)

Researchers: • Charlotte De Backer

First-order solving and learning KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Informatics Section

Researchers: • Luc De Raedt

Fiscal benefits for housing in Flanders. KU Leuven Abstract: This research aims to contribute to the preparation of the transfer of competence for housing taxation from the Federal State to the Flemish region, which is announced in the Federal coalition agreement of December 2011. The research includes an estimate of the budgetary cost of the current system of tax benefits and of possible reforms. In addition, on thebasis of literature research and using available simulation models the impact of possible reforms is evaluated on housing prices, on the affordability of housing, on the quality of existing homes, and on new construction and renovation. Organisations: • Research Centre of Economic History, Leu

Researchers: • Francine Winters • Erik Buyst

Flanders in Nazi-Germany (1933-1945). Investigating the building of an image. University of Antwerp Abstract: The central focus of this study is an investigation of the image of `Flanders' in Nazi-Germany. This image will be analysed from different perspectives on the basis of a varied corpus of books and magazines published in German between 1933 and 1945: with respect to contents (recurrent themes and motifs, synchronic incon-sistencies and diachronic changes), with respect to discursive strategies (and their use of imagery, genres, narratological structures, pragmatic strategies, intertextual references') and with respect to the specificity of fiction in the construction of this image. The results will be put into perspective by embedding the image building process in its historical and political-ideological framework. Organisations: • Literary criticism • Institute of Jewish Studies

Researchers: • Vivian Liska

Flanders study to improve end-of-live-care and evaluation tools Ghent University Abstract: not available Organisations: • Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Freddy Mortier

FlaReNet: Fostering Language resources Network. University of Antwerp Abstract: International cooperation and re-creation of a community are the most important drivers for a coherent evolution of the Language Resource (LR) area in the next years. FlaReNet will be a European forum to facilitate interaction among LR stakeholders. Its structure considers that LRs present various dimensions and must be approached from many perspectives: technical, but also organisational, economic, legal, political. The Network addresses also multicultural and multilingual aspects, essential when facing access and use of digital content in today's Europe. Organisations: • Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)

Researchers: • Walter Daelemans

FLaVoR : Flexible Large Vocabulary Recognition : Incorporating linguistic knowledge sources through a modular recogniser architecture. University of Antwerp Abstract: In this project we investigate whether the 'all-in-one' strategy currently used in speech recognizers, in which task-specific, syntactic, and lexical knowledge are fused into a single model based on simple formalisms, can be replaced by a modular architecture in which apart from acoustic-phonetic and intonational features, also generic and domain-specific linguistic information sources can be used. Organisations: • Linguistics • Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)

Researchers: • Etienne Gillis • Walter Daelemans

Flemish cultural specificity in translation: empirical case-study University of Antwerp Abstract: Flemish cultural specificity in translation: empirical case-study Organisations: • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Geert Lernout

Flemish Migration to England in the XIVth century: the case of Colchester. Ghent University Abstract: A study of the Flemish migrants to England (Colchester) in the 14th century, with a specific focus on weaving industry and their influence on English society, economy and culture. Organisations: • Department of History

Researchers: • Marc Boone

Flemish Renaissance and Baroque art. University of Antwerp Abstract: Interdisciplinary co-ordination of Belgian and non-Belgian research projects related to the study of Flemish art in the 16th and 17th centuries. It is expected that the co-operating research units shall have the opportunity to meet with a certain regularity in order to compare and evaluate their methodologies. Organisations: • CENTRE FOR CULTURAL HISTORY OF ANTWERP • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Jan M F Wouters • Arnout Balis • Katlijne J.J.L. Van der Stighelen

Flemish Sign Language Corpus Ghent University Abstract: Het doel van het project is het verzamelen en publiceren van een corpus voor Vlaamse Gebarentaal. Dat corpus zal als basis dienen voor onderzoek naar Vlaamse Gebarentaal en voor vergelijkend onderzoek tussen Vlaamse Gebarentaal en andere gebarentalen. Het zal bestaan uit automatisch doorzoekbare, geannoteerde videodata van een representatieve groep Vlaamse dove gebarentaalgebruikers.

Organisations: • Department of Latin and Greek

Researchers: • Annemieke Van Herreweghe

Flemish Sign Language Project 2011: I'm only human Ghent University Abstract: not available Organisations: • Departement of International public law

Researchers: • Hendrik Pinxten

Fluid Landscapes and The Persistence of Memory: The Architecture and Engineering of The Erie Canalway and the Materialization and De-materialization of Liquid-Urbanism in the Empire State (2010-2014) KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Architecture and Design

Researchers: • Bruno De Meulder

Focus, colon and script in Ancient Greek. (F. Scheppers) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The present project concerns the following aspects: - in the field of linguistic description of ancient Greek: the reconstruction of focus (i.e. pragmatic-cognitive prominence of individual words) and text articulation in classical Attic; - in the field of general linguistics: the theory of these phenomena. As a methodological-heuristic criterium, we will start from the rules for the postion of hte so-called 'post-positives' ('Wackernagels Law') on the base of which the bouderies of so-called 'cola' (cf. 'intonation units' 'idea units' etc. in the contemporary literature) and the prominence of particular words can be reconstructed. Following recent studies on particle usage and discourse analysis and on the basis of extensive corpusbased research, we will show that the macro-structural articulation of discourse and the articulation on the level of the cola, as well as the pragmatic-cognitive functions of focalised words, can be described coherently by means of the notion 'script' which allows us to represent the articulation andcoherente of discourse graphically. Organisations: • Latin-Greek

Researchers: • CECILIA SAERENS

Follow-up study Ghent University Abstract: The first institutional part will focus on the realization of the provincial decree and its consequences for the internal provincial organization. The second part is a ?political biography? that gives attention to the political personnel in the 1994-2010 period, with a prosopographic analysis and biographies of the governors, provincial chairmen and members of the provincial executive. Organisations: • Departement of Political science

Researchers: • Herwig Reynaert

Food and international exhibitions in the 19th and 20th centuries (ICREFH Colloquium, Brussels 17 to 20 September 2013) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The International Commission for Research into European Food History was founded in Münster (Germany) in 1989 on the initiative of Hans-Jürgen Teuteberg. ICREFH is an interdisciplinary and international group of scholars, which includes several disciplines such as history, ethnology, sociology, economics, geography, technology and natural sciences. It deals with the history of food and nutrition in Europe since the late eighteenth century. Special attention is devoted to the relationship between the culinary culture and processes of industrialisation and urbanisation. This network of scholars organises biennial colloquia on relevant topics of research, and it publishes the results in books (see below). The official language is English, with German and French as working languages Organisations: • History

Researchers: • PETER SCHOLLIERS

Food quality, safety, and trust since 1950: Societal Controversy and Biotechnical Challenges Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: This project focuses on the years leading up to food scandals using a long-term framework to interpret changes in representation of food safety and food quality and consumer trust. The nature of shopping for everyday food changed drastically throughout the second half of the 20th century. Supermarkets took over Western-European retail structures and became the most important place of shopping for food (with up to 90 % of total food sales). This drastically changed the foundations of trust. Whilst small-scale counter shops used personal contacts to instigate bonds of trust, the nature of supermarkets forced these to use a faceless brand to make contact with the customer. Trust in people needed to change to confidence in an institutional system. A strong and trustworthy brand identity, whether this was the chain or the supermarket as a concept, was needed to assure a constant flow of customers. The central focus of this study will be on the way these large-scale retailers formed bonds of trust with the consumers in Belgium. Organisations: • Social-cultural food-research • Industrial Microbiology • History • Political Science

Researchers: • Filip DEGREEF • PETER SCHOLLIERS • PATRICIA VAN DEN EECKHOUT

• Luc DE VUYST • FREDERIC LEROY

For an efficient management of the archives: intern organisation and decent management. Records management. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Principles concerning records managment, particulary filemaking, arrangement and removal of records. Organisations: • History

Researchers: • JUUL VERHELST

Forbidden images. Movies as a source for the study of social controversy through an analysis of Belgian film censorship Ghent University Abstract: An historical research about the development of film censorship in Belgium. Forbidden images. Movies as a source for the study of social controversy through an analysis of Belgian film censorship. Organisations: • Departement of Communication studies

Researchers: • Daniël Biltereyst

Foreign Language Reading for Academic Purposes. A study of beginning and advanced students of English (native speakers of Dutch) reading English academic texts. University of Antwerp Abstract: This research project focuses on the reading of academic texts for academic purposes by language degree students (Dutch L1, EFL students) as part of their study. It aims to identify the main contributing factors to the students' academic reading proficiency in the FL, as well as to determine the relative contribution of each factor. The project compares students at different levels of study (incoming, mid-level and final year students). Organisations: • Applied Language Studies

Researchers: • Christel Van De Poel • Tina Brunfaut

Format, content and order of response categories in survey research. A fundamental research into the impact of response categories on response patterns. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: How can one measure the direction and strength of peoples attitudes or convictions? In survey research the most widely spread technique for this is category scaling. In order to express the strength of his opinion, a participant can choose among (a number of categories. Often, each category is labeled arbitrarily with numbers and/or verbal qualifiers. The assignment of labels to category rating scales is most common in human and behavioral sciences. In spite of its success, category scaling has a number of drawbacks. Probably the worst problem is that the technique is restricted to ordinal measurement. Consequently, researchers who adopt such measurement are severely restricted in the use of powerful (parametric) statistical methods. Often in survey research, but not always justified, interval assumptions are founded on large sample sizes. In psychophysics, which is a totally different research area, another scaling technique, namely magnitude estimation was developed. There the subject is required to make numerical estimations of the sensory magnitudes produced by stimuli. In magnitude estimation research instructions often seem to be somewhat unusual to subjects but they are allowed a response range with no constraints. Generally it is accepted that such scales result in measurements at ratio level. After a thorough search in articles, questionnaires, etcetera, a list of verbal qualifiers of magnitudes was selected. In his work Rohrmann (2003) distinguished 5 dimensions, namely: Intensity (e.g. rather, very), Frequency (e.g., never, sometimes), Probability (e.g., unlikely, hardly), Agreement (e.g. dont accept, agree) and Quality (e.g., bad, satisfactory). In our research we use six dimensions; we divided Rohrmans (2003) quality dimension into a evaluation dimension and satisfaction dimension. The principal goal of this research project is to construct a scale for each dimension which fulfils psychometric as well as practicability criteria. Practicability criteria in this context refer to the fact that a response scale should be easy in use, cost-effectiveetc. From a psychometric point of view the response scale should at least produce an interval level of measurement. It is also our goal to identify labels which have the right position on the scales in accordance to the number of categories. Right refers to the fact that the chosen labels must have the necessary linguistic characteristics, meaning that a high level of agreement about their perceived meaning and familiarity exists among subjects. The actual research consists of laboratory and internet experiments. Our main focus is located at item level. Participants are asked to rate different verbal qualifiers through different types of scales and modalities. In conclusion, the following research questions are put forward: (1)Are people able to express their perceived meaning of verbal qualifiers? (2)Which measurement level can be obtained from magnitude estimation? (3)Is it possible to develop a category scale with quantitative properties? (4)Do category scaling and magnitude estimation provide coherent information about verbal qualifiers? (5)Which are the best verbal qualifiers for rating scales with 5 to 9 categories in terms of practical and psychometric qualities? Organisations: • Work and Organisational Psychology

Researchers: • ROLAND PEPERMANS • PETER THEUNS • Walentina COOLS

Form Ever Follows Function? Use and Reuse of the Johannesschüssel in Central Europe KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract

Organisations: • Art History, Leuven

Researchers: • Barbara Baert • Georg Geml

Forms of address in Chilean Spanish: diastratic and diatopic variation and pregmatic use Ghent University Abstract: The project studies the address system in Chilean Spanish, characteristic of its threefoldness (tú, usted, vos + own verb conjugations), the increasing use of the hybrid 'tú + vos-verb conjugation' and the high frequency of strategic politeness alternations between the three forms. The investigation analyses social, geographical of strategic politeness alternations between the three forms. The investigation analyses social, geographical and contextually-specific influences on the phenomenon based on an enquiry and audiorecordings in the speech community. Organisations: • Department of Latin and Greek

Researchers: • Eugeen Roegiest • Renata Enghels

Forms of the sublime in the work of Don DeLillo. University of Antwerp Abstract: The concept of the Sublime in the philosophical tradition of Edmund Burke and as elaborated by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century first developed into a central paradigm in the Romantic era when the demand for strong passions in literature and literary criticism was running high. Yet adaptations to and variants on the original idea,which underwent an evolution of its own, became just as important in many postmodern writers¹ practice and a dominant feature of many critics' discussions of these authors' work. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a definition of the Sublime as it functions in the novels of the postmodern American writer Don DeLillo on the basis of existing theories of the concept. Our central aim is to use this definition as the cornerstone of a new framework or model for an analysis of central recurrent themes in DeLillo¹s oeuvre and to add in that way to a better understanding of the author¹s work. To make sure we have provided the necessary background to keep this discussion clear, we shall first survey the Sublime from its origin to its present-day appearances and focus on Don DeLillo's most important themes with reference to different critical analyses of his books. Organisations: • Literary criticism • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Luc Herman • Jasmine Vervenne

Forms of the sublime in the work of Don DeLillo. University of Antwerp Abstract: The concept of the Sublime in the philosophical tradition of Edmund Burke and as elaborated by Immanuel Kant in the 18th century first developed into a central paradigm in the Romantic era when the demand for strong passions in literature and literary criticism was running high. Yet adaptations to and variants on the original idea,which underwent an evolution of its own, became just as important in many postmodern writers¹ practice and a dominant feature of many critics' discussions of these authors' work. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a definition of the Sublime as it functions in the novels of the postmodern American writer Don DeLillo on the basis of existing theories of the concept. Our central aim is to use this definition as the cornerstone of a new framework or model for an analysis of central recurrent themes in DeLillo¹s oeuvre and to add in that way to a better understanding of the author¹s work. To make sure we have provided the necessary background to keep this discussion clear, we shall first survey the Sublime from its origin to its present-day appearances and focus on Don DeLillo's most important themes with reference to different critical analyses of his books. Organisations: • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Luc Herman • Jasmine Vervenne

For the Time Being. The Relationship Between Digital Technology and Knowledge in Science KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Faculty of Theology and Religious Studie • Literary Studies Research Unit, Leuven

Researchers: • Stefan Gradmann

Fostering Children's Dignity through Pastoral Care in Hospitals: Childhood Studies and their Theological Implications for Hospital Chaplaincy in Malawi KU Leuven Abstract: This research,critically appreciates the context of children in Malawi in dialogue with literature that discusses pastoral care practices for children in hospitals and in other contexts. We aim to develop ways to improve pastoral care for/with children in hospitals, with a special focuson Malawi.Recent childhood studies indicate a shift in the theology about children, we argue that children should not be considered as passive receivers in societies but as active givers. Despite being confronted with many forms of abuse and vulnerability, many Malawian children are seen to possess an inner strength that shows itself in their resilience andsurvival. This study will show how theological reflection on the givingchild, benefits hospital chaplaincy with children. This exercise is in tandem with the establishment of a newly passed law #Child Protection Law 2010# that opens up possibilities for childhood in Malawi. Theology should not be left out in this development, as theology both stimulate Organisations:

• Research Unit of Pastoral and Empirical

Researchers: • Annemie Dillen • N. N.

FOST voor Brusselicious Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Participation in series of popular events (public talks, collaboration in food fairs, ...) Organisations: • Social-cultural food-research • History • Political Science

Researchers: • MARC JACOBS • PETER SCHOLLIERS • PATRICIA VAN DEN EECKHOUT

Fotografisch document: de mens in de stad University College Ghent Abstract: Als actief onderzoeker als fotograaf wil de onderzoeker via het tijdskrediet verder het spanningsveld onderzoeken tussen fotografisch document en fotografisch constructie waarbij het onderwerp zich concentreert rond de mens in de stad. Het concreet plan bevat duidelijke geplande mijlpalen: 8 monumentale panoramische beelden in Brussel opgenomen en een uitgebreid essay waarbij hij Brusselse beelden historisch zal plaatsen. Er worden toonmomenten voorzien van de onderzoeksresultaten in Antwerpen en Rotterdam en enkele lezingen in het buitenland. De plaatsing van dit dossier binnen het academisingsproces is tweeledig: binnen de vakgroep Fotografie wil men duidelijk de breuklijn tussen fotografie en documentaire uitwerken binnen de masterklassen. Daarnaast past het project in de strategie om bruggen te bouwen tussen de opleidingen schilderkunst en fotografie. Organisations: • Faculty of Fine Arts • Department of Photography

Researchers: • Martien Van Beeck

Foundations of Art and Science. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: In this project we study the connection between arts and sciences through philosophical, cultural-sociological, historical and economic analyses. The project contains several subsections, which form however an indissoluble unity: (1) Disemborderment of art and science, in which we investigate the possibilities of existence for a depiction of arts and sciences as similar intellectual and creative activities; (2) The relation between image and reality, in which we investigate which "modes" sciences and arts use in order to represent reality; (3) Historical world-views, in which we conceptualize the historical relationship between sciences and arts; and (4) Art and economics, in which we investigate the connection between economics and aesthetics, and between the economy and the art world. Organisations: • Economic, Monetary and Financial Policy

Researchers: • DIRK FRANTZEN

Foundations of expressive timing control in music Ghent University Abstract: Timing is a crucial aspect of meaningful musical communication. In order to achieve the intended musical expression, musicians need to control their movements such that time-critical musical structures can be adequately performed. In the past, foundations of timing have been based on cognitive theory. However, we believe that an embodied approach may offer new insights that are of fundamental importance to music research. In particular, we aim at studying how gestures (corporeal articulations) and timing may mutually entrain each other in view of meaningful musical communication. We will investigate the role of gestures in precise timing in musical expressions and study in more detail the relationship with musical intentions and expressions. We aim at defining a theoretical framework for expressive timing, which we will support with a unique methodology based on a performer informed analysis. Organisations: • Departement of Art, music and theatre sciences

Researchers: • Marc Leman

Francesco Filelfo's Consolatio ad Iacobum Antonium Marcellum de obitu Valerii filii and the Rhetoric of Renaissance Consolation Literature. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Latin Literature and Seminarium Philolog

Researchers: • Jeroen De Keyser • Ide François

Franciscanen Antifonarium. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Art History, Leuven

Researchers: • Jan Van der Stock

Francqui-Onderzoekshoogleraar-mandaat. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Archaeology, Leuven

Researchers: • Jeroen Poblome

Francqui Professorship Prof. Jean Bourgeois ?Men and landscape in the Metal Ages, in Siberia and in Flanders? Ghent University Abstract: The research project focusses on the metal ages (last two millennia BC) in two research areas. In Siberia, the analysis of geographical patterns in the spatial organization of the archaeological monuments is central, in order to understand the mental structures that lead prehistoric populations. Men ? body and mind ? landscape are the key words. In Flanders, the research on metal ages is mainly based on the results of intensive yearly aerial photographical surveys that revealed a dens Bronze Age landscape. Focus here is on the Bronze Age barrows in their geographical context. Organisations: • Departement of Archeology

Researchers: • Jean Bourgeois

Freedom, equality and fratenity in the Early Dutch Enlightenment (1662-1697) Ghent University Abstract: Research into the roots of the Enlightenment, more specifically by examining some central notions such as 'freedom', 'equality' and 'fraternity', and the way in which these were applied in political theory. Themes that will be examined in this context are i.a. slavery, the idea of the natural state and the noble savage, the image of the atheist martyr, etc. Organisations: • Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Martin Commers

Freemasonry and the Construction of National Identities in Belgium (19th Century / Early 20th Century) Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The historical relationship between freemasonry and the contruction of national identities at the centre of attention. A project reseraching this issue on a European level has recently been honoured by the ESF. Relying on the youngest theoretical (constructivist and etno-symbolist) findings concerning nation-building, the promotors wish to adhere to these efforts and to analyze the specific contribution of Belgian freemasonry to the construction of Belgian identities and subidentities. The essential tension between the cosmopoltian goal of the organization and its true connection to nationalism forms the staring point. Freemasonry will be seen as an external reflection of broader societal phenomenons, but also as an internal producer of cultural artefacts with an explicit national or nationalist character. These elements will be analysed on different levels. First of all the level of "constructedness" of national identities will be enquired on. Then the relevance of local, regional, national and colonial dimensions will be analyzed. The archive material that has recently been returned from the ex-USSR will be utilized for these purposes. Organisations: • Interdisciplinary Research group - Freemasonry • History

Researchers: • Anais MAES • JEFFREY TYSSENS

Free will and the human relation to God and man himself in the 17th century philosophy in Malebranche, Fénelon and Pascal KU Leuven Abstract: Na de Reformatie gaat de 17e eeuwse mens gebukt onder angst, een groot schuldbesef, en de vrees bedrogen te worden (inclusief door zichzelf). Hoe verhoudt deze mens zich tot God en zichzelf, en hoe kan de filosofie een antwoord bieden op de existentiële drama's van de 17e eeuwse mens. We onderzoeken deze kwesties bij Pascal, Malebranche en Fénelon, waarbij we speciale aandacht hebben voor de implicaties van het debat van de eigenliefde en de pure liefde voor het vraagstuk van de vrije wil. Organisations: • Husserl-Archives: Centre for Phenomenolo

Researchers: • Roland Breeur • Vincent Caudron

French and English as a foreign language in Flemish schools. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The aim of this project is to systematically compare the education of French-as-a-foreign language and English-as-a-foreign language in secundary schools in Flanders. The following aspects will be analyzed and compared: institutional requirements, curricula, (explicitly and implicitly) intended language skills, evaluation criteria, pedegogic methodologies and techniques, didactic materials, concrete outcomes. The starting point of the comparison is a decriptive-theoretical model which will be developed on the basis of an in-depth investigation of the available literature on language education, language proficiency, and language acquisition. This model will subsequently be tested against the reality of foreign-language teaching in Flanders. The aim of the propsed project is twofold: first, to develop a theoretically grounded descriptive instrument; second, a comparative analysis of English- and French-as-a-foreign language teaching in Flanders. Organisations: • Germanic Languages • Roman Languages

Researchers: • MICHEL PIERRARD • Alexis HOUSEN

French and English as Foreign Languages in the first cycle of secondary education in Flanders Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Abstract: This project compares French and English Foreign-Language education in the 1st cycle of secondary education in Flanders. Starting point for the investigation are the findings and the descriptive-theoretical framework developed in a similar previous explorative study of French and English Foreign-Language education in the 3rd cycle of secondary education in Flanders (Housen, Janssens & Pierrard 2001). Three aspects will be investigated for each of the two languages: (1) Educational factors (e.g. curricula, objectives, methodological-didactisch approaches uses); (2) Motivations and attitudes of pupils and teachers; (3) Levels of language proficiency of the pupils. Aspects (2) and (3) will be evaluated at the entry and exit level of the 1st cycle by means of a comparative, cross-sectional fieldstudy based on a random sample of 600 pupils. On the basis of the empirical insights thus acquired, guidelines will be formulated for optimalising the organisation and practice of foreign language teaching in secondary education in Flanders. Organisations: • Language and literature

Researchers: • MICHEL PIERRARD

Friendship, Love and the Logic of the Gift in Nietzsche KU Leuven Abstract: In this project, I will investigate how Friedrich Nietzsche's account of friendship can help us to understand the challenges that friendship isfacing today. Nietzsche is highly critical of idealized classical and modern characterizations of friendship, praising instead the notion of agonistic friendship in which competitive interactions support personal and shared excellence. It will be argued that Nietzsche's treatment of friendship is an attempt to re-inscribe the Aristotelian virtues of friendship into a new therapeutic model fit to cope with the nihilism of (post)modernity. To aid in understanding the current predicament of friendship, and also why Nietzsche uniquely has something to offer, a historical study of the philosophy of friendship will be pursued. The problem of friendship in Nietzsche will be examined in conjunction with an analysis offriendship in the works of Aristotle, Cicero, Montaigne, Kant, Schopenhauer and Emerson. In doing so, my project will not only contribute Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Paulus Van Tongeren • Willow Verkerk

From a basic understanding of the interactions of antibacterial peptides with the outer membrane towards next generation enzybiotics KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Division of Gene Technology

Researchers: • Johan Robben • Marc De Maeyer • Rob Lavigne • Abram Aertsen

Fromal characterizations of defaesible reasoning forms: the capacities ans limits of the standard format for adaptive logics Ghent University Abstract: The general aim of this research project is to ecplicate formally defeasible reasoning forms (DRFs) by means of Adaptive logics (ALs). Despite the fact that the standard format for ALs proved to be very useful for the formak characterization of many DRFs, it is suboptimal for some application contexts. the more specific aim of my research is hence to investigate the capacities and limits of the standard format and to generalize it if and where recessary. An efficient way to scrutinize this aim is to consider the many DRFs that developed independently of the AL program (only some of them were integrated thus far). Organisations: • Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Joke Meheus

From Archimedean Pluralism to Negotiated Pluralism: The Relevance of Indian Views of Pluralism for a Reconceptualization of the European Context. A Case Study with Bilgrami. University of Antwerp Abstract: The projects addresses questions regarding ways of accommodating religious opinions within a secular but radically pluralising social and cultural context and political discourse. A main theoretical-methodological invention of this research would be the consideration of the equally plural Indian context and related debates in political philosophy, and the ways of (re)inventing of certain elements of this Indian discourse within the European context, especially Bilgrami's ideas. Organisations: • Center for European Philosophy

Researchers: • Walter Van Herck

From bishop to witch: the religious and mental world of ordinary people in the diocese of Antwerp, 16th-17th century. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project ¿ a case study on the diocese of Antwerp - focuses upon the processes of religious change in the early modern period. Important research questions deal with the religious and mental world of ordinary people and with the impact of the Catholic Tridentine reform program. At the methodological level, a dynamic communication perspective will be used. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Guido Marnef

From bishop to witch: the religious and mental world of ordinary people in the diocese of Antwerp, 16th-17th century.

University of Antwerp Abstract: From bishop to witch: the religious and mental world of ordinary people in the diocese of Antwerp, 16th-17th century. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Guido Marnef • Vrajabhumi Vanderheyden

From bishop to witch: the religious and mental world of ordinary people in the diocese of Antwerp, 16th-17th century. University of Antwerp Abstract: This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Guido Marnef • Vrajabhumi Vanderheyden

From "black as ebony" to "Black as ink": The Dutch and Flemish translations and retellings of "Snow White" in the literary-historical reception of Grimm's fairy tales. University of Antwerp Abstract: This postdoctoral research project charts the most important tendencies in the Flemish and Dutch reception of Grimm's fairy tales. It compares the translations, adaptations, illustrated versions and parodies of "Snow White" with Grimm's source text and interprets the stylistic, structural and thematic shifts in the light of dominant and changing attitudes towards the fairy tale, fantasy literature, children's literature and translated literature. Organisations: • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Geert Lernout • Vanessa Joosen

From "black as ebony" to "black as ink"; The Dutch and Flemish variants of "Snow White" in the literary-historical reception of Grimm's fairy tales. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project investigates the most important tendencies in the Flemish and Dutch reception of Grimm's fairy tales. It compares the translations, adaptations, illustrated versions and parodies of "Snow White" with Grimm's source text and interprets the stylistic, structural and thematic shifts in the light of the dominant and changing attitudes towards the fairy tale, fantasy literature, children's literature and translated literature. Organisations: • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Geert Lernout • Dirk Van Hulle

From Boudica to Morgan Le Fay: the perception of the celtic woman in victorian fine arts (1837-1901) Ghent University Abstract: How was the imaging of Celtic women in Victorian fine arts during the Celtic Revival? Using 18 cases - comprising painting, sculptures and illustrations - from England, Wales and Ireland, the paradoxical (conservative and progressive) impact on this 19th century patriarchal society will be examined, taking into account the context of the first emancipation wave in the UK and Ireland. Organisations: • Departement of French

Researchers: • Maryse Demoor • Marjan Sterckx

From cause célèbre to microhistory: toward a history of synchronic history-writing Ghent University Abstract: This project examines an understudied historiographical genre: synchronic or episode-focused forms of history-writing. The project traces this genre from the recueils des causes célèbres of the eighteenth century to the emergence of microhistory in the twentieth. Tracing the structure of these forms and their impact on other genres, the study seeks to offer a diachronic history of synchronic history-writing. Organisations: • Departement of French

Researchers: • Elizabeth Amann

From Chaos to Order - the Creation of the World. New Views on the Reception of Platonic Cosmogony in Later Greek Thought, Pagan and Christian. KU Leuven Abstract: Onderzoek naar de receptie van Plato's Timaeus in de Platoonse traditieen in Christelijke commentaren op Genesis 1-3. Vier invalshoeken staan daarbij centraal. Vanuit een kosmologisch perspectief wordt de vraag behandeld hoe de goddelijke (inzichtelijke) en de zintuiglijke wereld met elkaar in verband staan, en hoe de onvolmaakte orde van de sensibele wereld een weerspiegeling kan zijn van de principes van de kosmos. Vanuit een antropologisch perspectief wordt bekeken hoe de materiële en de intelligibele wereld bij elkaar komen in de combinatie van lichaam en ziel. Vanuit ethisch standpunt (nauw verbonden met de antropologie) wordt onderzocht hoe bepaalde morele handelingen worden beschouwd als leidend naar het ideaal van eenwording (of hervinden van de eenheid) met God (#956;#8055;#963;#962;#952;#8183; of #8051;#963;#962;). Een eschatologisch perspectief, ten slotte, wordt gevonden in de verschillende aspecten van de metafysisch/kosmologische, antropologische en ethische speculatie. H Organisations: • De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medi

Researchers:

• Joseph Verheyden • Johan Leemans • Geert Roskam • Peter Van Deun • Gerd Van Riel

From Charter to Tools. A qualitative research to the application of the ICOMOS Ename Charter on maritime heritage Ghent University Abstract: The focus of this project is on how the ?ICOMOS Ename Charter principles? can be used to develop 'interpretation and presentation'-instruments that are part of an integral and sustainable heritage policy and that aims to the specific context of maritime and naval heritage. Organisations: • Departement of Communication studies

Researchers: • Lieven De Marez

From denial to insurgency: The PKK and the (re)construction of Kurdish identity Ghent University Abstract: This study aims at understanding the 30-year long struggle of the Kurdish national movement in Turkey. In this sense, it examines the evolution of the PKK from an insurgent movement to a transnational social movement organization as well the emergence of Kurdish identiy politics as outcome of this movement. This research will be at junction of three areas: (ethno)-nationalism, social movements and identity politcs. Organisations: • Department of Third World studies

Researchers: • Christopher Parker

From Exclusion to Inclusion: An Exegetical Analysis of Soma Christu in 1Cor 12:12-27 KU Leuven Abstract: This thesis is firstly an exegetical investigation of sooma christou in1 Cor 12:12-27 and secondly an attempt to create a paradigm of inclusion in the Dalit context of India. In this project we explore the history in the text and history of the text by examining 1 Cor 12:12-27, using the historical-critical methodology in view of describing the situation that gave way to this text. Then we explicate the theological nuances of this pericope and thereafter we identify the elements of the future orientation of the text and articulate the vision projected by the text, identifying the ethical claims for the present that flow from the eschatological vision. A new focus on life in community, the body of Christ will be brought out by interpreting the text (1 Cor 12:12-27) through the lens of the Normativity of the Future approach. It will bring a paradigm ofDalit inclusion in the Church removing all the existing #exclusions.# Then we study the Dalit Christian context by examining the historica Organisations: • Research Unit of Biblical Studies

Researchers: • Reimund Bieringer • Thomas Vadakkel

From Finite to Infinite. The concept of Essential Being and the Problem of Transcendence in Edith Stein's 'Finite and Eternal Being.' KU Leuven Abstract: Edith Stein#s unique concept of #essential being# renews the question of the meaning of being, and of the transcendence from finite to infinitebeing. Stein#s insight into the relation of essential and actual beingpromises a creative dialoge with existential Thomism. Organisations: • Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Re

Researchers: • William Desmond • N. N.

From Individual Privacy to Social Conundrum: An Ethical Reading of and a Christian Response to the Technological and Organizational Surveillance in India, in Dialogue with David Lyon KU Leuven Abstract: The ongoing discussions today about electronic monitoring and workplacesurveillance in various disciplines, ranging from the fundamental issues of sociology and philosophy to the specialized applied topics like information systems and ethics, show how much attention the issue has drawn. However, there are conflicting rights and interests: employers have legitimate interests in seeking efficiency, profit, and vicarious liability, while employees have rights to privacy, autonomy and justice. Many researchers have committed themselves to investigate and resolve these conflicts. Yet although individuals are the key constitutive elements of any workforce, there are many more things to consider than just the concern for individual privacy. Hence, challenges of electronic monitoring arecomplex areas of discussion, which can be seen as a legal problem, a moral question, a social conundrum, and so forth. While acknowledging these possibilities of addressing this issue, this research will focus Organisations: • Research Unit of Theological and Compara

Researchers: • Johan Verstraeten

From interrogative to conditional: The synchronic and diachronic emergence of asyndetic conditional sentence constructions in West Germanic within the frameworks of grammaticalization theory and 'theodistics' Ghent University Abstract: The project will investigate the diachronic and synchronic discourse basis of conjunctionless conditional sentence constructions in WestGermanic. It will be investigated (a) to what extent they can be seen as grammaticalizations of dialogues consisting of a polar interrogative and a declarative sentence and (b) to what extent German and Dutch formed a unity in this respect (until the 17th century) compared to English. Organisations: • Departement of German

Researchers: • Luc De Grauwe • Torsten Leuschner

From Khemenu to Tjerty. Prolegomena to a Social and Physical Geography region in Pharaonic Middle Egypt. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Near Eastern Studies, Leuven

Researchers: • Harco Willems

From lexical to semantic sociolectometry: New methods for the corpus-based analysis of variation in lexical categorization. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Quantitative Lexicology and Variational

Researchers: • Dirk Geeraerts • Dirk Speelman

From lexical to semantic sociolectometry: New methods for the corpus-based analysis of variation in lexical categorization. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Quantitative Lexicology and Variational

Researchers: • Dirk Geeraerts • Dirk Speelman • Thomas Wielfaert

From Light to Light. An Investigation into the Role of the Light Imageryin Gregory of Nyssa's Spiritual Theology KU Leuven Abstract: The doctoral project is going to clarify the role of light in human spiritual journey as depicted in Gregory's works. This task will be accomplished by a systematical investigation of Gregory of Nyssa#s use of the light-metaphor. This work includes mainly analyzing texts concerning #light# in all of Gregory#s works. As a preparation, research will be done on the understanding of #light# in the Alexandrian tradition. In addition, it is also necessary to describe the human spiritual journey accordingto Gregory. Passages about "light" will be analyzied within this doublecontext. The analysis includes a deep theological reflection on the meaning of the light-metaphor and its connection with the spiritual journey. This will be followed by a short investigation of the role of darknessin human spiritual journey by both analyzing key passages and consulting second literatures. Afterwards, a comparison between light and darkness will be made. It will answer the question, whether light and darkn Organisations: • Research Unit of History of Church and T

Researchers: • Johan Leemans • Hui Xia

From Love to Life? Changing Attitudes in Contemporary Philosophy KU Leuven Abstract: This dissertation will be based on work already published, newly reworked, and gathered together in a more integral form. It will focus on significant changes in important currents of contemporary phenomenology, among which we find important reflection on the nature of phenomenology itself, a new openness to everydayness, a longing for a new kind of community, and concern for a non-anthropocentric vision. One might summarize these changes and currents under the heading #From Love to Life#. This title indicates that, although in contemporary phenomenology as well as in theology, phenomenologies of love abound, it is noteworthy that, in the margins of this erotic hype as it were, other authors abdicate from singling out the experience of love as #paradigmatic# or otherwise #extraordinary# and propose more solid and sober ways of approaching the humancondition. For this, this project will retrieve the at times somewhat neglected works of original scholars and phenomenologists (such as Sl Organisations: • Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Re

Researchers: • William Desmond • Joeri Schrijvers

From medieval estates to modern parliament. A study into the political participation in regional and central institutions in the Low Countries University of Antwerp Abstract: This research project wants to investigate the roots of a modern parliamentary culture. This aim will be achieved by looking at the representatives of the city of Mechelen on a regional and central level between 1350 and 1850. The data about the representatives will be linked with existing databases of local administrators, political mandataries, board members of associations and social groups. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Maarten Van Dijck

From Monadology to Nomadology - A systematical and Comparative Discussion of Gilles Deleuze's Concept of the Fold Ghent University Abstract: The aims of my PhD project are (i) to contribute to the philosophical reception of the works of Gilles Deleuze by offering a systematical discussion of what is arguably his most central concept (Badiou, 1997), that of the 'fold'. Also, it is my intention to (ii) develop the concept further through a series of comparative studies with contemporary phenomenological and constructivist interpretations. Organisations:

• Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Freddy Mortier • Bart Vandenabeele

From natural philosophy to science: Euler's inquiry of nature viewed through his optics Ghent University Abstract: This project investigates the relationship between natural philosophy and philosophical developments of scientific criteria in the optics of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783). The central questions are: (i) Did Euler's account of optics, as well as his mathematisation of nature, lead to changes in the role of natural philosophy? (ii) Was the modern seperation of natural philosophy and science a consequence of this? Organisations: • Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Eric Schliesser

'From Ninette to Tavern Princess': Lyrical drama and operas from the Southern Netherlands (1759-1907) and the position of Dutch as a singing language. University of Antwerp Abstract: This research project studies the Dutch lyrical drama and opera from the Southern Netherlands, between 1759 and 1907. It focuses on the complex role of Dutch as a singing language and on the evolution and the function of Dutch lyrical drama and opera as an aesthetic experiment, a product of the Enlightenment, a linguistic proof of concept, an expression of Belgian and/or Flemish (proto)nationalism, etc. The research will be conducted on the basis of five carefully selected operas and works of lyrical drama. Organisations: • Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

Researchers: • Hubert Meeus

From Pagan to Christian Anthropology: Nemesius of Emesas De natura hominis. KU Leuven Abstract: Early modem tyrannicide-literature analyzes a specific political 'right' with considerable sophistication and flair: a people's right- or even, any subject's right- to kill tyrannical heads of state. Defending this 'right', with the French philosopher Jean Bodin, range figureslike the republican poet John Milton and the Huguenot jurist Franc;:oisHotman. Denying this 'right', with the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes, are Humanist jurists like Claude Saumaise and William Barclay- and somewhat earlier, Erasmus, who published a rebuttal of Lucian's ancient Tyrannicide speech in Leuven, in 1520. Despite the fact that contributions to this Europe-wide debate were intensely philosophical, and despite the appearance of some promising studies in recent years (often by historians of literature or law), this literature has been badly neglectedby philosophers. Thus, I propose to analyze a number of early modern texts on the issue of tyrannicide, and then to put my findings in dialoguewith contem Organisations: • De Wulf-Mansion Centre for Ancient, Medi

Researchers: • Gerd Van Riel • David Lloyd Dusenbury

From Passions to Religion. The Rhetoric and Politics of Hume's account of Superstition. University of Antwerp Abstract: The project challenges the idea that Hume's account of superstition exemplifies a typical radical enlightenment approach of religion. While Hume without doubt defends a profound and major critique of the religious fanaticism that stands forward in monotheism and Christendom, he defends at the same time that religion is a product of the passions and imagination and as such forms an ineradicable part of the human condition. For Hume, the major question is not how reason could replace superstition, but how a politics of religion could help to alleviate the excesses of religious passions, while at the same time fostering the sense of morality. Thus Hume's precutionary conservatism is compaticle with the acceptance of a moderate form of superstition as constitutive dimension of human sociability and civil society. This project defends that this nuanced and pragmatic position of Hume can be reconstructed on the basis of his essays and the History of England. At the same time this project wants to elucidate the relation between Hume's religious scepticism and his practical critique of superstition. Organisations: • Center for Ethics

Researchers: • Willem Lemmens

From press release to news report: what's translating got to do with it? University of Antwerp Abstract: What's translation got to do with it? Journalists often say that they do not 'translate' foreign news; they produce new(s) stories. Prior research has shown that journalists actually do have to translate sometimes, even though they are not always trained to do so. By looking at the differences between a set of news articles (news papers, news websites) and a set of foreign language press releases on which these articles are based, we want to shed light upon the role and the nature of translation within the newsroom. Organisations: • Antwerp Center for Pragmatics (IPrA Research Center)

Researchers: • Jozef Verschueren

From private 'folk' to 'Indian/Rajasthani Gypsy' dance on global stages to Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (UNESCO): the history of Kalbeliya dance (ca. 1960 to the present) Ghent University Abstract: This project presents a first in-dept study of Kalbeliya dance, focusing on its transformations from a folk dance practised exclusively at home, to a folk dance performed in public. The study aims to answer the following questions: What are the historical evolutions that can be osbserved from the sixties ('pure dance') to the present ('performing art')? And how is Kalbeliya dance conceptualized within the broader context of 'Classical' Indian dance versus 'Folk' dance. Organisations: • Departement of Languages and cultures of South and East Asia

Researchers: • Eva De Clercq

From Shiyang to Fengge: The Conception of Style in Twentieth-Century China KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Architecture and Society

Researchers: • Hildegarde Heynen • Thomas Coomans de Brachène • Ying Wang

From Sin to Guilt, and from Guilt to Sin: A Case Study regarding the Relation between Philosophy and Theology according to the Early Heidegger KU Leuven Abstract: The development of Heidegger#s existential idea of Being-guilty from his early theological study, and its application to the theological conception of sin will be examined. The #to and fro# structure of the relationbetween philosophy and theology will come to the fore in this case study. Organisations: • Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Re

Researchers: • Martin Moors • N. N.

From Sisyphus to Icarus: traces of existentialism in postmodern literature Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: This study wants to clarify the relations between literary existentialism and postmodernism. It focuses on 'the image of man' and on 'revolution and revolt', both from a formal viewpoint (narrative strategies) and a thematic one(motives of revolt, revolution, terrorism, subjectless identity). The project starts form the clash between Camus and Sartre, which is used as a tool to scrutinize the existentialist writings of authors such as Jan Walravens and Anna Blaman. It then moves on, via the writings of theorists such as Kristeva, to compare these with postmodern authors such as Peter Verhelst and Atte Jongstra. Organisations: • Germanic Languages

Researchers: • BART VERVAECK

From spatial analysis to characterisation of Iron Age and Early roman sites in North- en East Gaul Ghent University Abstract: From spatial analysis to characterisation of Iron Age and Early roman sites in North- en East Gaul. Organisations: • Departement of Archeology

Researchers: • Jean Bourgeois • Philippe De Maeyer

From strategic competence to autonomous learning. Foreign language acquisition as a conscious and autonomous process. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: The accent on the use of strategies in foreign language acquisition and processing led to an interest in the level of consciousness in these processes. In order to influence strategic competence the learner has to go through some phase of awareness for evaluating (intro- and retrospection) and improving these strategies. Research has shown that no ideal strategies exist. The personality of the learner, his/her motivation, situation and task all influence the success of a strategy. If the acquisition process is organised autonomously - at least partly or after acquiring a basic level of compentence - the learner has more responsibility for his/her own learning process. This improves motivation. The research consists of : (1) further development of tasks and instructions for autonomous learning, which focus on language awareness and conscious use of strategic compentence; (2) research on how the learners organise and experience their own acquisition process by means of questionnaires (retrospection). Organisations: • Germanic Languages

Researchers: • MADELINE LUTJEHARMS

From theory of mind to vicarious perception. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand EU. UA provides EU research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. Organisations: • Centre for Philosophical Psychology

Researchers: • Bence Nanay

From Theory of Mind to Vicarious Perception University of Antwerp Abstract: I urge a shift of emphasis in the study of social cognition from 'theory of mind' to a simple perceptual process: the perception of objects as affording a certain action to another agent. This perceptual process, which I call 'vicarious perception', is different from, and much simpler than, theory of mind as it does not imply the understanding (or representation) of the mental (or even perceptual) states of another agent. I argue that the most convincing experiments that are supposed to show that non-human primates have theory of mind in fact demonstrate that they are capable of vicarious perception. The same is true for the experiments about the theory of mind of less than 12 month old infants. Organisations: • Centre for Philosophical Psychology

Researchers: • Bence Nanay

From Theory to Practice? The Movement from the Theology of Interreligious Dialogue to a Program of Interreligious Hospitality for the Nigerian Context. KU Leuven Abstract: The task of this project is to propose a feasible theological paradigm to contribute to the ongoing search for religious tolerance and peace among religious communities in Nigeria. To do this, the theory and practice of interreligious dialogue developed within modern Catholic theology will be scrutinized and critiqued with a view to deploying it effectivelywithin the Nigerian context. Though our work targets Christian-Muslim relations in Nigeria, its point of departure is an exposition of the contemporary experience of religious plurality and recent theological attempts to validate and appropriate that experience. The basic approaches to the phenomenon of religions will be exposed and particular attention will be devoted to the new hermeneutics of dialogue that have developed (and are developing) since Vatican II. Our primary concern is to ascertain to what extent religious plurality could be enriching. Our task, then, is to develop a sound theological reflection that will issue in a p Organisations: • Research Unit of Systematic Theology and

Researchers: • Terrence Merrigan • Maria Olisaemeka Rosemary Okwara

From the past to the future: A philosophical interpretation of Constants conception of popular sovereignty and its contemporary applications KU Leuven Abstract: Starting from the work of Benjamin Constant, the general objective of my research is to develop a philosophical understanding of the principle of sovereignty in democracy and its adequate institutionalization, especially with regard to its temporal dimension. In the light of this objective, Constant position is particularly interesting, because he was attentive to both the importance and the potential risks of democracy. Constant attached great importance to an adequate organization of the political process itself, in order for both current public opinion and longtermvision to be expressed and secured. Although Constant himself did not explicitly favour direct democracy, I will examine whether referendums and/or other forms of direct participation cannot be proposed as contemporary solutions to the concern at the heart of Constant#s work and of democratic theory more generally: to find an adequate balance between the immediate expression of popular will and the reasonable limitations Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Raf Geenens • Nora Timmermans • Stefan Sottiaux

From three-place predicates to auxiliary verbs in Romance languages: on the cross-linguistic equivalence of putting verbs in Spanish, Portuguese and French. Ghent University Abstract: This project aims at a comparative analysis of verbs of putting in three Romance languages: Spanish, Portuguese and French. Three near-synonymous verb pairs will be studied: poner/meter (Sp.), pôr/meter (Pt.) and poser/mettre (Fr.) from a synchronic and a diachronic angle. The intra- and cross-linguistic differences in use and the grammaticalization paths of the verbs constitute the focus of this study. Organisations: • Department of Linguistics

Researchers: • Renata Enghels • Clara Vanderschueren

From 'What If' stories to 'What if' alternatives Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Epistemic-logical models will be investigated to evaluate their potential for the understanding of mathematical practice and development. Organisations: • Centre for Logic and Science-Philosophy • Philosophy - Moral Sciences

Researchers: • JEAN VAN BENDEGEM

Functions of audiovisual prosody. University of Antwerp Abstract: This research proposal is concerned with a functional approach to verbal and visual prosody in spoken conversations. The problem to be addressed in the project is about the combined use of specific auditive cues (such as intonation, tempo, voice quality and pausing) and specific visual cues (such as facial expressions and specific body gestures) for marking different dialogue phenomena. First, we will explore how audiovisual prosody can be exploited to highlight the information status of words. Then, we will investigate how it can be used to signal whether or not the process of information exchange in a dialogue is going well. Next, we will explore how it can support the turn-taking mechanism in spontaneous interactions. Finally, we will see to what extent audiovisual prosody may reflect speakers' emotions and attitudes. The results of these different substudies will be integrated in one coherent, functional model of audiovisual prosody. All the questions will be tackled from the point of view of both the speaker and the listener, and from a crosslinguistic perspective. Insight into functional aspects of audiovisual prosody is relevant from both a theoretical and applied perspective. First, it is remarkable to observe that this important communicative device is still largely unexplored. Knowledge about how audiovisual prosody works may yield new insights into how people mark important words, deixis, turn-taking, discourse structure, etc. and more general into how languages can differ in the way they signal linguistic and paralinguistic phenomena. Second, there is an increasing interest in computer interfaces that rely on what is termed `embodied conversational agents', i.e., specific software components that appear to users as animated characters. To make these agents `believable' and `communicative', it is important to know in full detail how specific auditive and visual parameters contribute to speech communication. Organisations: • Linguistics • Centre for Computational Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (CLiPS)

Researchers:

• Marc Swerts • Walter Daelemans

Funding for the fourth year of the PhD Fellowship Award of Tran Van Thuy Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: Research Interests International Law; International maritime law and the international law of the Sea; The EU law.

Up 5. Research Topic (proposal) Freedom of Navigation of Other States in the Exclusive Economic Zone: International Law and Practice Organisations: • International and European Law

Researchers: • ERIK FRANCKX • Tran VAN THUY

Funding for the realization of a service architecture for the exchange of research information. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand the Flemish Public Service. UA provides the Flemish Public Service research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. Organisations: • Institutional Research Unit

Researchers: • Tim Engels

Future Footwear University College Ghent Abstract: ‘Future Footwear’ is a six-year PhD project in the arts financially supported by the Research Fund of University College Ghent. The set-up of the research is interdisciplinary with input from physical medicine and biomechanics, ecological anthropology and design sciences. Two cases on ethnic footwear, one in South India on Kolhapur footwear, one in Northern Europe on Sami boots, and one case on contemporary shoe design deliver the necessary data to develop a toolbox for the efficient creation of footwear. Organisations: • Faculty of Fine Arts • Department of Design

Researchers: • Catherine Willems • Dirk van Gogh

FWO senior vis. Postdoc fellow Corsi Cristina Ghent University Abstract: Study of the topography and chonological evolution of Roman towns in Marche (Central-ITaly) with the help of combined remote sensing and surface survey and also with the help of archive research for the reconstruction of the historical cartography of these deserted urban sites. Organisations: • Departement of Archeology

Researchers: • Frank Vermeulen

G.0781.13 KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Centre for Language and Education, Leuve

Researchers: • Kristiaan Van den Branden

Gaining Ground on Philosophical Grounding: A Confrontation Between Two Accounts of Hegels Wissenschaft der Logik KU Leuven Abstract: In his Wissenschaft der Logik, G.W.F. Hegel develops an original demonstration of the validity of our fundamental concepts and rules of thinking; however, his project#s methodology and outcome are contentious. The traditional "systematic" interpretation of the Logik claims that Hegel tries to ground all basic concepts and rules within a rigorous system. On the other hand, the newer "pragmatist" interpretation proposes that Hegel more modestly aspires to give an overview of some but not all basic concepts and rules. Surprisingly, while both interpretations offer divergent views on Hegel#s grounding project, the two have barely confronted each other. My dissertation will stage and evaluate a debate between the systematic and pragmatist interpretations in light of the text of the Logik, centered on two questions. First, how can we account for the validity of concepts and rules? And second, must philosophical grounding be systematic? Setting up a debate between the systematic and pragmatis Organisations: • Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Re

Researchers: • Henning Tegtmeyer • Joris Spigt

Galilee during the Second Century AD. An Archaological Examination of a Period of Socio-cultural Change. KU Leuven Abstract: Traditionally, the period succeeding the destruction of Jerusalems Temple in AD 70 was characterized by a quick rise to power of the rabbinic movement, which in the aftermath of the two Jewish revolts (i.e. AD 6670 and 132135) moved from Judea to Galilee. In short, all that was Jewish in Galilee was basically understood as being rabbinic Jewish, i.e.following social recommendations that are described in later rabbinic

literature. As the historicity of this later literature for understandingsecond-century Galilee has been fiercely questioned over the last decades, scholars now slowly turn to archaeology as a source for understanding the Galilean population during this period. This dissertations aim, then, is to document and interpret this evidence in order to understand the socio-cultural changes in the region during this particular period. Put differently, it sets out to examine what Jewish meant in Galilee atthe time of the second century AD. The analysis begins with a discu Organisations: • Archaeology, Leuven

Researchers: • Jeroen Poblome • Marc Waelkens • Rick Bonnie

Games Online for Basic Language learning (GOBL). KU Leuven Abstract: This project aims to provide youths and adults wishing to improve theirbasic language skills with access to materials for the development of communicative proficiency in French, Dutch and English through web-based minigames that support spoken interaction. Worldwide, and especially in Europe, millions of people have to learn foreign languages every year, or a second language which they need to integrate in socioeconomic contexts. Still, some groups participate to a lesser extent, or lose interestin formal language education altogether. Moreover, in foreign language curricula, it may be argued that speaking practice and grammatical accuracy receive little attention nowadays. Educational mini-games are small,self-contained games which focus on well-defined learning topics, whichare highly motivating, reusable, and cost-effective. Mini-games are particularly fit for the development of language skills at the lower end ofthe proficiency scale. Moreover, there is evidence that disadvantaged Organisations: • French, Italian and Comparative Linguist

Researchers: • Piet Desmet

Geïntegreerd kennisbeheer gebaseerd op meertalige kennispatroonontsluiting University College Ghent Abstract: De doelstelling in dit project is een KMO-gerichte kennisbeheermethode uit te werken, gebaseerd op een automatische methode om kennis uit elektronische documenten te halen. Dit laatste zal gerealiseerd worden via een kennispatroon-"editor" waarmee zowel Engels- als Franstalige kennispatronen kunnen worden opgesteld: de voorkeur voor deze talen werd vastgelegd in overleg met de KMO’s van de gebruikerscommissie. Deze kennispatronen zullen in een generiek databankformaat worden opgeslagen teneinde ze automatisch te kunnen aanwenden voor taalspecifieke en bedrijfsspecifieke kennisontsluiting van elektronische documenten. Tijdens het project zal de kennispatrooneditor uitgebouwd en getest worden met causale kennispatronen die door het Departement Vertaalkunde van de Mercator Hogeschool zullen opgesteld worden voor de Franse en de Engelse taal. Causaliteit is een proceseigenschap die alle betrokken KMO’s van de gebruikerscommissie als voldoende relevant beschouwen: de vertaling naar de respectievelijke KMO-gebonden aspecten is gepland via de project-technologievertaling waarbij het belang van nieuwe verantwoordelijkheden zal verduidelijkt worden die betrekking hebben op specifieke kennisbeheertaken. Organisations: • Faculty of Translation Studies • Department of French

Researchers: • Rita Godyns

Geldschieters uit Toscane en uit Piemonte en de antiwoeker- wetgeving in de Bourgondische Lage Landen. Een vergelijking KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Early Modern History (15th-18th Centurie

Researchers: • Eric Aerts • N. N.

Gender and Genre in five Victorian Amatory Sonnet Sequences: Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850), Elizabeth Barrett Browning Modern Love (1862), George Meredith Monna Innomanita (1881), Christina Rossetti Stella Maris (1884), John Addington Symonds Mot Ghent University Abstract: Gender relationships play a crucial role in the Petrarchan amatory sonnet. Since ideas about masculinity and feminitity were the subject of much controversy in the Victorian age, it is no coincidence that the sonnet became immensely popular in the 19th century. This project examines how five Victorian sonneteers handle the sonnet's prescriptive legacy and situates their approaches in their socio-cultural context. Organisations: • Departement of English

Researchers: • Maryse Demoor

Gender aspects of dutch legal language. Vrije Universiteit Brussel Abstract: When reading legal texts in Dutch we are often struck by the absence of feminine word form. In most cases masculine words and forms are used in a generic gender neutral way. Theoretically the use of these gender neutral masculine words should be able to guarantee an equal approach of men and woan, but since they are generally referred to using male pronouns, the create a clearly male image. Only in legal texts that specifically concern women, e.g. women's labour, motherhood and trading in woman, do they appear to be explicitly mentioned. Is this correct? Should there be an alternative and what would its imlications be? Organisations: • Institute for Language Teaching

Researchers: • MARIE-REINE BLOMMAERT

Gender, culturele identeit en globalisatie: het discours van Vlaamse en Tsjechische vrouwenbladen in dynamisch perspectief

University College Ghent Abstract: Abstract not yet available Organisations: • Faculty of Translation Studies • Department of Russian-Czech

Researchers: • Stepánka Kotrla

Gender en sex dimensions of simultaneous interpreting Ghent University Abstract: The aim of the proposal is to analyse 3 gender and sex dimensions of simultaneous interpreting based on a corpus of interpretations: cognitive skills, e.g. verbal memory, interpersonal work and respect of norms, linguistic as well as deontological norms. Organisations: • Department of Latin and Greek

Researchers: • Annemieke Van Herreweghe

Gender Ideologies and Gender Practices in African Christianity. A Critical Examination of John Paul II#s and African Gender Theology in the Context of Southern Nigeria KU Leuven Abstract: African societies in general and African Christianity in particular struggle with the issue of gender and how to achieve more egalitarian and just relations between women and men both in the public and private sphere. The hypothesis of this dissertation is that conceptual frameworks like the ones suggested by African (feminist) theologians on the one side and John Paul II on the other are too abstract and a-contextual as to tiein with the grass root experience of African women and men. This means that ultimately such gender ideologies are not found helpful to redeem unjust gender relations. What is to be looked for instead is a contextualized approach to gender issues which on the one side takes into consideration the concrete and lived experiences of couples rooted in African anthropology and culture and on the other side activates and operationalizes the critical potential of the above mentioned theoretical frameworks.For that purpose the study engages in a case study in which the pr Organisations: • Research Unit of Theological and Compara

Researchers: • Thomas Knieps

Gendering the Victorian Sonnet Ghent University Abstract: This research project focuses on the Victorian sonnet as a mirror of the nineteenht-century gender debate. Through the study of a number of representative sonnet sequences, it will map the ways in which the selected authors use the sonnet's generic inheritance in order to make a statement about the nature and role of gender in Victorian society Organisations: • Departement of English

Researchers: • Maryse Demoor

Gender in the Ugandan Secondary School Classroom: Textbook Representation, Teacher Discourse and Implications for Practice Ghent University Abstract: The study is a mixed methods investigation of gender in the Ugandan classroom through curriculum materials and pedagogy. The focus is on gender representation in four popular English textbooks recommended by the Ministery of Education for teaching English to senior three students in Ugandan schools. I will also establish how teachers mediate these texts and the factors that influence this mediation. Organisations: • Departement of Comparative sciences of culture

Researchers: • Chia Longman

Gender, migration and distance. Maidservants as agents of change in the democratization of long-distance migration: a comparative case study of international migration by men and women to Brussels and Antwerp, 1850-1900. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project aims to gain insight into the dynamics and agents of change behind the democratization of long-distance migration in the second half of the 19th century, by means of a comparative study of the trajectories and networks of male and female foreign newcomers to Antwerp and Brussels in 1850-1900. The general purpose is (1) to explore the dynamics of change at the meso level by focusing on the interplay between different migration networks in a time of structural macro change, and (2) to identify agents of change at the micro level by exploring relations between 'pioneers' and 'followers' in these different migration networks. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Hilde Greefs

Genealogies of literature: prehistories of a modern concept (12th-18th century ). University of Antwerp Abstract: This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel. Organisations: • Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

Researchers: • Frank Willaert

Genealogies of literature: prehistories of a modern concept (12th-18th century ). University of Antwerp Abstract: This is a fundamental research project financed by the Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO). The project was subsidized after selection by the FWO-expert panel.

Organisations: • Research centre Ruusbroec Institute

Researchers: • Veerle Fraeters

Generalisation of exteroceptive and interoceptive cues. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Centre for Psychology of Learning and Ex

Researchers: • Tom Beckers • Dirk Hermans • Holly Miller

Genesis and Function of the Supplements: A Genealogical and Genre-Theoretical Study of British Nineteenth-Century Periodicals Ghent University Abstract: During the Long Nineteenth Century British periodicals of all genres issued so-called "supplements" various now disregarded addenda (e.g. gifts, special editions on topical issues, advertisement papers) that can relate to the supplemented periodical in several meaningful ways. We study those functions, emphasizing the diversity of these documents and the aspired market position of the periodicals with which they were issued. Organisations: • Departement of English

Researchers: • Maryse Demoor

Genesis and function of the supplements: a genealogical and genre-theoretical study of British Nineteenth-century Periodicals and their Addenda Ghent University Abstract: The proposed project wil clearly fill an impartant gap. Mapping a series of journals and their supplements in certain key periods would allow us to (1) describe the supplement as a subgenre in the many forms it assumes: as addenda, sections, extras, supplements, and separate journals followed by genre-theoretical conclusions about the conditions of their genesis (economic reasons, technical or formal reasons), the conditions for their continued existance and the consequences of their 'survival' for the field of culture. (2) reconstruct the development of journals on the basis of a kind of genealogy of periodicals, so as to lay bare the links between journals and the journalists, editors and networks behind journals and the role supplements played in the survival of the fittest titles. Organisations: • Departement of English

Researchers: • Maryse Demoor

Genesis of the Finnegans Wake Notebooks. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a research contract awarded by the University of Antwerp. The supervisor provides the Antwerp University research mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions stipulated by the university. Organisations: • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Geert Lernout

Genetic variants are associated with immunophenotype in health and autoimmune disease. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Laboratory for Neuroimmunology

Researchers: • Bénédicte Dubois • An Goris • Adrian Liston

Gent Kinemastad Ghent University Abstract: This project is inspired by the New Cinema History perspective within film and media studies, whereb researchers concentrate upon the social embedding and the lived experiences of cinemagoing. The project focuses upon the history film exhibition, programming and cinemagoing in Ghent and its suburbs (1896-2010). Organisations: • Departement of Communication studies

Researchers: • Daniël Biltereyst

Geographies of aid intervention in Palestine Ghent University Abstract: Recent scholarship has highlighted the problems associated with aid effectiveness in the occupied Palestinian territories. Faith in economic development to keep alive the ?peace process?, as well as the dominant?post-conflict? framework has shaped most development interventions since the Oslo accords. Less research has been done about the microgeographies of development intervention in general, and the ways in which these practices are negotiated, implemented, and contested, or how they are related to a broader political economy of aid and development. The aim of this conference is thus to explore the ways in which development intervention reshapes socio-political, spatial, economic, and environmental relations in the oPt, in addition to thinking out alternatives for a development that responds to Palestinians needs and rights Organisations:

• Department of Third World studies

Researchers: • Sami Zemni

Geophysical palaeolandscape survey; zone Moervaart-Noord Ghent University Abstract: Goephysical survey aimed at mapping the palaeolandscape in the research area Moervaart Noord. This survey was conducted in support of the archaeological evaluation of the research area. Organisations: • Departement of Soil management

Researchers: • Marc Van Meirvenne

Georges May revisited: towards a poetics of carnival. Parody and the "dilemme du roman" in French prose fiction circa 1737. University of Antwerp Abstract: This research proposal investigates a possible complement for the largely accepted theory of the "dilemme du roman" (G. May, 1963). A threefold criticism of May's theory -a) the concept of a "crise du roman" due to its official proscription in 1737 for invraisemblance and immoralism doesn't match its exponentially growing success; b) the lack of theoretical writings in favour of the novel leads to an imbalance in the confrontation between novel practise and contemporary novel criticism; and c) the a priori evacuation of parodical authors such as Caylus or Vade relies on a presupposition, namely that the novel has to formulate a serious answer to its proscription -leads to a triple hypothetical framework within which the role of parody in the novel debate about 1737 is evaluated: 1) the novel's success ensures it of another, more pragmatic legitimacy in the eyes of editors and public, which makes the aesthetic legitimacy less important; 2) the evolution of the novel is determined by the practise of novel writing itself rather than by theoretical precepts; and 3) the in criticism under- represented parodical corpus may have played a crucial role in the novel's response to its prohibition because it allows to criticise techniques that are found unbelievable (2) and because it permits an neutralising absorption of the proscription criteria in favour of the already achieved pragmatic legitimacy (1). Organisations: • Literature and Modernity

Researchers: • Kris Peeters • Luc Rasson

German modal particles as multimodal constructions of intersubjectivity. KU Leuven Abstract: In this project, a multimodal analysis of German modal particles (MPs) is presented. MPs are little words which add a particular nuance to an utterance. In particular, three clusters of MPs are studied: 1° those linking a question to its context (typically denn and eigentlich), 2° those indicating that the hearer should already know what is said(typically ja and doch), and 3° those indicating thatwhat is said is considered obvious (typically eben, einfach, and halt). The fact that the analysis is multimodal implies thatgestures are also taken into account. Gestures are the movements peoplespontaneously make when they speak. In this project, patterns in the use of such gestures with MPs are investigated, with focus on the gesturesthat add a similar nuance to the utterance as the MPs. Starting from a number of examples, these patterns are analyzed in detail. This includesa discussion of external factors which may have influenced these patterns. Finally, the question is raised whether the Organisations: • Formal and Computational Linguistics (Co

Researchers: • Kurt Feyaerts • Geert Brône • Steven Schoonjans

Gertrude Stein in dialogue with Gilles Deleuze: an analysis of modernist poetry Ghent University Abstract: My research aims to point out the value of Deleuze's philosophy for the analysis of modernist poetry. In my case study I focus on the experimental work of Gertrude Stein. Deleuze's concepts 'littérature mineure' and 'devenir femme' function as key notions in my research. These will enable me to relate Stein's modernist poetry to our postmodern perspective on literature and to open up to feminist literary criticism. Organisations: • Departement of English

Researchers: • Maryse Demoor • Bart Keunen

Geschiedenis van het Katholieke Onderwijs. KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • KADOC - Documentation and Research Centr

Researchers: • Jan De Maeyer

Getting real about words and numbers. An enactive approach to language and mathematics. University of Antwerp Abstract: The aim of this research project is to extend the Enactivist approach by showing how symbolic activities, in particular language and mathematics, can arise from embodied active engagement with the social environment, which currently presents the greatest challenge to EEC. Organisations: • Centre for Philosophical Psychology

Researchers: • Erik Myin

"Gij viel in korrelen uiteen" : fragmentation and modernism in the work of Gerrit Achterberg. University of Antwerp

Abstract: In twentieth-century Dutch literary history, the Dutch poet Gerrit Achterberg is mostly considered as an isolated social and literary case. It is the goal of this research to show that this is unjust. By means of an examination of the fragmentation theme in Achterberg's poetry ' a theme which can in most cases be associated to Achterberg's interpretation of modern physics and more particularly of modern thermodynamics ' Achterberg's poetry will be characterized as a pre-eminent example of modernist poetry. Especially in an international context, there are parallels to be found between Achterberg's poetry and the poetry of other important modernist poets. Organisations: • Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

Researchers: • Georges Wildemeersch • Pieter Van Dyck

Gilliams and Signs: An investigation into the repercussion of a significantly increasing autonomy of the literary field on the critical representation of reality in (Flemish) narrative prose. University of Antwerp Abstract: This case-study aims to cast new light on the complex evolution of Flemish literature during the interwar period. This project will nuance the more recent thesis put forward by Missinne, Dorleijn, De Geest e.a. that during the 1930s the Flemish literary field knew a significant development: on the one hand this is a period of cultural pillarization, on the other, literature dissociates itself from so-called non-literary institutions (church, state, political parties) and develops yet more in accordance with its own rules and conventions. Organisations: • Institute for the Study of Literature in the Low Countries (ISLN)

Researchers: • Kristiaan Humbeeck • Filip De Ceuster

Giordano Bruno's Imagination: Art of Memory between magic and Science Ghent University Abstract: By a study of Giordano Bruno's art of memory, influenced by his magic, the prominent position of Bruno's imagination is exposed. After the brunian imagination is discussed throughout his memotechnical, magical and philosophical work, it will be placed in a broader context of history of science, to enlarge our vision of the transition period between aristotelian physics and modern science. Organisations: • Departement of French

Researchers: • Wilhelmus Verbaal

GIStorical Antwerp: a micro-level data tool for the study of past urban societies, test-case: Antwerp. University of Antwerp Abstract: This project represents a formal research agreement between UA and on the other hand the Flemish Public Service. UA provides the Flemish Public Service research results mentioned in the title of the project under the conditions as stipulated in this contract. Organisations: • Centre for Urban History

Researchers: • Bruno Blondé • Bert De Munck • Peter Stabel • Hilde Greefs • Tim Soens

Global Justice and Global Democracy. KU Leuven Abstract: The research will focus on the nature of political representation in global governance. It will attempt to supplant the largely procedural global justice debate with democratic norms, utilizing substantive notions of political representation. Organisations: • Centre for Ethics, Social and Political

Researchers: • Jan Wouters • Helder De Schutter • Haye Hazenberg

Global justice: Assessing cosmopolitan approaches in the Ghent University Abstract: Our main focus will be on the realist objection that cosmopolitan justice is utopian and will remain unfeasible. We will investigate the interconnectedness between the responsibility of the individual, the role played by states and the changes in the global institutional order needed to maximize global justice. Organisations: • Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Sigrid Sterckx

God and Darwin in the Low Countries. A survey on the position and meaning of Intelligent Design in Flanders and the Netherlands Ghent University Abstract: Due to the growing attention in the media for Intelligent Design, we will investigate how strong the position of this phenomenon is in Flanders and the Netherlands. We will also explain this phenomenon, keeping in mind the important role of values in the debate, the differences between both regions, and the lack of scientific knowledge. Organisations: • Departement of Philosophy and moral sciences

Researchers: • Johan Braeckman

God's Holy One: A Redaction-Critical Analysis of the Confession of Peterin John 6:69. KU Leuven Abstract: This work undertakes to continue a study we began as an STL candidate. Our investigation at that time, focused solely on Jesus# self-consecration - hagiazo emauton - in 17:19a, which sought come to some initial understanding of what John meant by consecration. In order to undertake the doctoral research, the work of the initial STL project will need to be critically re-evaluated and updated. Initial findings showed that predominant among the positions of the commentators we had surveyed1 was the view that Jesus# death was sacrificial. How this is so, is not always spelled out clearly, but many of those surveyed2 drew links with the LXX 1 W. HENDRIKSEN, Exposition of the Gospel according to John, Vol. II, Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA, 1954, pp. 374ff. C.K. BARRETT, The Gospel according to St. John: An Introduction with Commentary and Notes, London, UK, 1972, Second edition, p. 511. X. LÉON-DUFOUR, Lecture de L#Evangile sélon St. Jean, Tome III Les adieux du Seigneur, Paris, Fra Organisations: • Research Unit of Biblical Studies

Researchers: • Reimund Bieringer • Debra Snoddy

Going Downtown. A Critical Analysis of the New York Downtown Literary Scene (1974-1984) Ghent University Abstract: This research project is the first to ciritcally and systematically investigate the "Downtown Collection" at the NYU Fales Library. The "Downtown Collection" holds a corpus of highly innovative fiction, written between 1974 and 1984 in the NY Downtown region, which has played a crucial role in the transformation of the contemporary canon. Organisations: • Departement of English

Researchers: • Kristiaan Versluys • Bart Verschaffel • Bart Keunen

Government guarantees within public and private law KU Leuven Abstract: No English Abstract Organisations: • Institute for Commercial and Insolvency

Researchers: • Joeri Vananroye • Steven Lierman • Karel-Jan Vandormael

Governments markets: institutions and regulation for a changing world.nbsp; KU Leuven Abstract: A crucial choice facing our society is the trade-off between a "laisse" market-based organiznd a stronger role for state