Research projects
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Dating the Remains of an Agricultural System in Southern Iraq
Remains of a massive irrigation system covering over 50,000 hectares surround the former site of the city of Basra, Southern Iraq. This project is a collaboration to try and date the ridges of soil on site.
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Humour scandals in the Netherlands, 1950s-present
Ever since the rise of mass media in the mid-twentieth century, pieces of publicly broadcasted comedy have occasionally led to controversy. This book project focusses specifically on eleven humour scandals in the Netherlands from the 1950s-now.
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The Marzuolo Archaeological Project
Using targeted excavation, spatial and scientific data analysis, 3D-modelling and material studies, this project aims to highlight the potential of Podere Marzuolo to function as a paragon of the varied nature of Roman rural settlement.
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North American Indigenous Soldiers in the Netherlands during WWII
The research project aims to identify and describe the participation of North American indigenous soldiers in the Netherlands during World War II.
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Moving Images
Paintings with moveable parts operated at the crossroads of art, philosophy, theology, literature, and science, but have never been analysed as phenomena within these frames. This project offers a new perspective on early modern material culture.
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Violence and Affect in Female Poetic Activism in Contemporary Mexico
Contemporary Mexican cultural production is strongly influenced by violence. This project studies how the work of three Mexican female poets generates and transmits affect in order to mediate memories of violence and engage an audience.
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Shipping the World Trade Center
This book project focuses on the ruins of the World Trade Center following their removal from Ground Zero. It centers on the musealization of relics, the fetishization of WTC steel as sacred material, and the selling of the wreckage as scrap metal.
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Revisiting Gone with the Wind
There has been controversy surrounding Gone with the Wind due to its depiction of black characters. This research project examines how people in different places and in different times encountered the film and how their opinion has changed over time.
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Women managing Museums
This project researches the history of the first female administrators in European cultural heritage institutions.
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Kitchen or Capital?
By analyzing financial accounts of Guelders’ landed nobility in the eighteenth century, this research reveals the daily involvement and responsibility of Dutch elite women and, more importantly, the dynamics behind it.
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Chatterboxes, Seductresses and Emotional Wrecks
This project studies the ostensible dichotomy between tradition and innovation in the portrayal of women in Hellenistic poetry, using the framework of anchoring innovation.
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Caligula or the Personalisation of Power
This study asks what could happen with the dark picture of Caligula and his reign if analysed from non-literary sources.
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Coining Roman rule?
The emergence of coinage in the ancient world has had a lasting impact on modern society. But how did coinage as a form of money first come to be accepted, and how was it used? This project addresses these questions for the Roman world.
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Distorting Mirrors
This project aims to unravel how and why nineteenth-century actors in the theatrical field appropriated foreign operettas catering for and impacting on various tastes and values, within a variety of Dutch urban contexts.
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Humor and Violence in Contemporary Latin American Literature
In this book project Brigitte Adriaensen analyses how contemporary Latin American literature uses different types of humour (black humour, parody, irony, cynicism) in the representation of violence.
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Poison, Medicine or Magic Potion?
The main aim of this project is to analyse the changing perceptions of 'drugs' in Latin America from the continent’s independence to our present day (1820-2020). The project focuses on the representation of ayahuasca, peyote and coca(ine).
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Gods, Heroes, Myths
All stories build on the stories that came before them, but perhaps none more unabashedly than fanfiction. This project examines how fanfiction anchors and innovates story elements from Antiquity.
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Metamodernism / Glocal Metamodernisms
This project aims to bring together colleagues working on artistic (esp. literary) responses to the perceived demise of Postmodernism in the arts and culture more generally.
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An evaluation model for music criticism in The Netherlands
This project looks at music reviews in five different Dutch magazines in five different time periods, to research how criticism is formulated in terms of content.
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What starting writers do and why
This project researches what starting literary makers do, and why. It works towards improving connections and dismantling barriers, aiming at a more versatile, resilient and inclusive Dutch-Flemish literary sector.