Linguistics of the floating island [Thesis].
From the floating island to the beggars, from the amuse-bouche to the bain-marie, from the cul de poule to the farts-de-nonne, French gastronomy is full of terms, sometimes with very colourful analogies, that can intrigue or make French speakers and Francophiles all over the world salivate. Where do these sometimes hilarious and sometimes terrifying gastronomic terms come from? Let's find out together with Philip Igho Qgadagba's Master's thesis.
One for all and all for a sparrow! [Thesis]
Some animal languages are not limited to one species. Indeed, a species can enter in communication with another one in order to cooperate. This phenomenon can be observed in some birds emitting a harassment call recruiting other birds of its species or not in order to harass a predator and make it flee. But how does this communication between species take place? Let's discover it with Mylène Dutour
The New Spirit of the University [Thesis].
Through the prism of research on the university in French-speaking Belgium, Céline Hoerner's thesis puts higher education and research back into their new relationship with the world. To the world of knowledge, of work, of business, of public authorities.
Indeed, the university participates today in a "new regime of knowledge where scientific questions and those of a political and social nature meet".
Masculinities in skirts [Thesis].
"In what way(s) do consumer practices constructed as feminine participate in the deconstruction or even the reconstruction of masculinity?" How do men in Western countries who wear skirts move the relationship to a garment that, in their home, has not always been attributed to the feminine? And, basically, how and why do we gender everyday practices?
The choreographic space of constraint [Thesis].
The last twenty years have seen the disciplining of Belgian development NGOs, following the Paris Declaration on Aid Effectiveness and neoliberal governance policies. NGOs manage to dance with these constraints. And this dance is transforming each of the actors to the rhythm of political and administrative reforms.