Research Projects

Current research projects

(in alphabetical order)

• AAA - Augmented Artwork Analysis. Computer-aided interpretation device for art images (Gian Maria Tore)
• ADONIS - Archeological Digital Forensics: reverse engineer the future of cultural heritage (Andrea Binsfeld)
• CALIDIE - Capitalising on Linguistic Diversity in Education (Adelheid Hu)
• Chaire de recherche en études parlementaires (Philippe Poirier)
• COMPARE - Collaboration with parents and Multiliteracy in early Childhood Education (Claudine Kirsch)
• DigiFam - Digital Media as Language and Literarcy Learning Spaces in Multilingual Families (Maria Obojska)
• DisPOSEG -Disentangling postcolonial encounters in globalisation: a sociolinguistic-ethnographic study of Lusophone migrant workers’ positionings in third space (Bernardino Tavares)
• FEATHER - The Feather and the literary work: French-speaking female authors of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg as literary precursors (1900-2020) (Hélène Barthelmebs-Raguin)
• FUSILLI - Fostering the Urban food System Transformation through Innovative Living Labs Implementation (Rachel Reckinger)
• INTERLOR - Lotharingien und das Papstum. Interaktions-, Integrations- und Transformationsprozesse im Spannungsfeld zwischen zentraler Steuerung und regionaler Eigendynamik (11.- Anfang 13. Jahrhundert) (Michel Margue)
• MuGi.lu - Musik und Gender in Luxemburg (Sonja Kmec)
• PLDP - La plateforme luxembourgeoise de la démocratie participative (Raphaël Kies)
• POPKULT60_II - Populärkultur transnational - Europa in den langen 1960er Jahren (Sonja Kmec)
• VILLUX X - Histoire des villes luxembourgeoises 10 (Martin Uhrmacher)

Current PhD projects

History

• Analyse sociologique d’un projet de mise en place d’outils et d’accompagnement pour la création d’une filière d’alimentation d’approvisionnement local (Ariane Fragnon)
• Die Legio XXII Primigenia Pia Fidelis (Thierry Groff)
• Books, saints, and men. For a revaluation of latin hagiographic culture in the diocese of Trier (13th-16th centuries) (Bastien Dubuisson)
• Ambitious amateurs - European filmclubs during the long 1960s (Julia Wack)
• Herrschaftsstrukturen in Lotharingien (9. - 15. Jahrhundert) (Scott Kutting)
• Gouverner par les maux : Santé, pratique(s) et culture(s) médicales à la cour de Marie de Hongrie (1531-1558) (Lison Vercammen)
• (Re)Building Tell Nebi Yunus, Mosul, Iraq: Using digital 3D reconstruction and finite element analysis to restore and virtually investigate 2700 years of Iraqi cultural heritage (Juan Aguilar)
• Rethinking the nature of human interactions with environment in medieval Luxembourg from a longue durée perspective using digital and interactive visualisation techniques and spatial analysis (Maximilian Jesiolowski)
• Climate and environmental events in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: A contribution to the archaeology of climate change (Ilenia Petrarulo)

German Studies

• Das fremde Wort. Mehrdeutigkeit und Mehrsprachigkeit in der modernen Lyrik (Arbeitstitel) (Dinah Mareike Schöneich)
• Kunstreflexion im Werk Franz Kafkas (Arbeitstitel) (David Fuchs)
• Potenzial und Grenzen der Digitalität und der Künstlichen Intelligenz in der Literaturwissenschaft. Bildungstheoretische Reflexion zur Mediendidaktik im digitalen Umbruch und Analyse von computerbasierten Verfahren, digitalen tools und social networking-Ansätzen im Literaturunterricht (Anjarasoa Rakotomanga)
• Zurück ins Mittelalter? – Literalität im digitalen Zeitalter der neuen Medien (Naomi Berrend)

English Studies

• A digital investigation of the journals edited by Charles Dickens (Ognyan Ognyanov Darinov)

Romance Studies, Media & Arts

• La parole performée. Enquêtes sur les transformations structurelles de l’expression publique de la parole, en France, depuis les années 1980 (Edwin Lavallée)
• L'épopée indo-européenne, genre et valeur : une approche théorique (Armand Erchadi)
• L'oeuvre d'art augmentée et le musée virtuel (Nicolás Enrique Marín Bayona)
• Edition critique d'un inédit d'A. Koltz (Marvin Andrieux)

Luxembourg Studies

• D'Lëtzebuerger Sprooch: ideologies of standardization (Gabriel Alejandro Rivera Cosme)
• Spracheinstellungen in Luxemburg (Lou Pepin)
• Variationslinguistische Untersuchungen zur luxemburgischen Jugendsprache. Eine Analyse von Gebrauchsstrukturen in Messenger-Interaktionen (Melissa Mujkić)
• Code-Switching in written Luxembourgish: Computational approaches to research on identity, style, and power (Jacques Spedener)
• Development of the novel in Luxembourgish Literature (1980-2022). Approaches from spatial analysis, digital humanities and literary multilingualism (Cosimo Suglia)

Philosophy

• The powers and limits of rational reflection (Yannick Kohl)
• The promise of deliberative (e-)democracy. An appraisal of public consultations at the regional, the national, and the European (Lisa Verhasselt)
• Imagination and fiction (Kieran Alexander Salt)

Chaire parlementaire

• The influence of parliamentary diplomacy in norm diffusion and human rights policy: the Parliament of Spain, the European Parliament, and the Mercosur Parliament and its members (Laura Gil Besada)
• Democratic Quality and Retrenchment in the European Union (Agnès Darabos)

Multilingualism

 

• The effects of grammatical reflection for spelling French plural markers among grade 4 pupils and intra-individual development throughout one year (Lisa Klasen)
• A qualitative study on parent and child engagement in multiliteracy activities in crèches in Luxembourg (working title) (Valérie Kemp)
• Innovative approaches to the multilingual workplace (Veronika Lovritš)
• Children's experiences of multilingualism in Luxembourg at home, school and social media (Mahdi Mowlaei Aghblagh)
• Multilingualism in mentoring and tutoring (Yimin Zhang)
• Revisiting the Concept of Intercultural Competence in a Globalising World: European and Chinese Perspectives on Culture and Interculturality in the Business area (Shuai Mao)

 

Completed Research Projects