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Designers rethink social boundaries with gender-neutral fashion

Paper

Stefan Immens

Anna Vasilenka

Tomlin Smits

Milo Miranda

12/09/2022

14 minutes to read

Society is in constant change adapting to what is happening in the global environment. The fashion industry is getting stronger every day because it has been adapting in unique ways to society such as gender-neutral fashion.

"Meeting of Styles" and the online infrastructures of graffiti

Academic paper

Jan Blommaert

25/07/2022

16 minutes to read

Social phenomena that looks very outspokenly "offline", such as graffiti, can no longer be understood without looking at the online infrastructures supporting them.

De Geest voorbij: geesteswetenschappelijke reflecties op gezondheidszorg

Academic paper

Jenny Slatman

25/07/2022

18 minutes to read

Zowel psychologisering als neurologisering gaan beide uit van een zeer mager begrip van lichamelijkheid. Jenny Slatman pleit voor een ruimere opvatting van lichamelijkheid die ook toegepast kan worden binnen medische praktijken.

The European Charter for Regional and Minority Languages in Slovakia

Academic paper

Monika Nemcová

25/07/2022

21 minutes to read

An analysis of implementation of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages in Slovakia in pre-school and primary education with a focus on Hungarian, Ruthenian, Ukrainian and Romani languages.

Ravana displayed on a chariot at the Sri Devram Maha Viharaya (Pannipitiya, Sri Lanka)

Ravana: Once a demon, always a demon?

Academic paper

Deborah de Koning

25/07/2022

12 minutes to read

In current post-war Sri Lanka, the story of Ravana is taking new shapes among the ethnic majority of (Buddhist) Sinhalese. In this paper, Deborah De Koning argues that Ravana is not doomed to remain a demon.

The Theorist’s Fear of the Undefined

Academic paper

Suzanne van der Beek

25/07/2022

7 minutes to read

Many theorists have tried to define the literary fantastic – without great success. Maybe this question should remain unanswered as a reminder of our fear of the theoretically unknowable.

The case of the Slovak minority in Poland

Academic paper

Monika Nemcová

25/07/2022

22 minutes to read

Focusing on education and the media, this article analyses Slovak as a minority language in Poland. It argues that the Polish language policy is inextricably connected to educational and national policies.

De literaire schrijver in het mediatijdperk

Academic paper

Sander Bax

25/07/2022

5 minutes to read

Verschillende wetenschappers betogen dat het literaire bedrijf grondig en fundamenteel aan het veranderen is in het mediatijdperk. Literatuurwetenschapper Sander Bax bouwt met zijn studenten aan dit dossier over dit grote transformatieproces.

‘Bob freed your mind the way Elvis freed your body’

Academic paper

Sander Bax

25/07/2022

34 minutes to read

Nooit kreeg hij hem en hij zal hem ook wel nooit krijgen. Dat dacht Sander Bax tot vandaag. Een Nobelprijs voor Rock, kan dat? Literatuurwetenschapper Sander Bax analyseert de literaire kwaliteiten van Bob Dylan's werk.

Teaching the language that makes one happy

Academic paper

Jan Blommaert

25/07/2022

5 minutes to read

Language teaching often assumes a generic "language" that needs to be acquired, while in actual fact, specific registers are learned and such registers enable "integration" into highly specific niches in social life.

From mobility to complexity in sociolinguistic theory and method

Academic paper

Jan Blommaert

25/07/2022

29 minutes to read

A theoretical and methodological paradigm sift is underway in sociolinguistics, in which insights in the mobility of sociolinguistic phenomena leads to a complexity perspective with far-reaching effects.

Chronotopic identities

Academic paper

Jan Blommaert

25/07/2022

15 minutes to read

Most of our identity work is "chronotopic" in nature: it is organized, regimented and ordered by specific timespace conditions. An awareness of this fact has implications for identity and culture theory.

The sublime of Miyazaki: how the movies of Studio Ghibli give us a feeling of sublimity

Paper

Beau Swierstra

29/06/2022

14 minutes to read

Studio Ghibli movies, of the Japanese director Miyazaki, are famous all over the world. Together with the breathtaking scenes, his formalistic approach, and the complex narratives, sublimity is reached in many of his animation movies.