– Leander Duthoy Us academics are regularly reminded of the significance of being able to communicate our research in plain language to a lay audience. In Flanders, this is seen as so important that we have a whole competition/contest about it: the PhD-Cup, which – as shared with you in a prior news item – our amazing… Continue reading Okay… but why children’s books though?
Author: Lindsey Geybels
Reading with your ears
From 19 until 27 November 2022, it is Read Aloud Week in Flanders. Some of the authors that are studied by the CAFYR team are included in the book tips, such as Bart Moeyaert with the wonderful winter story Morris, and Joke van Leeuwen with tantalising portraits in Beginnelingen. By the way, there is no… Continue reading Reading with your ears
CAFYR at the VAL Symposium 2022
“Climate change can be seen as presenting us with the largest collective action problem that humanity has ever faced, one that has both intra- and inter-generational dimensions.” This issue, brought forward by philosopher Dale Jamieson (2014, 61), forms the starting point for this year’s VAL symposium, which takes place at UGent on Friday 25 November.… Continue reading CAFYR at the VAL Symposium 2022
How old is young?
“Any adult who does not dare to read a children’s book on the train may not be a real adult yet.” These and other statements on age came up for discussion on Thursday 20 October, during the book launch of Vanessa Joosen’s new essay. At local bookshop De Groene Waterman, she presented Hoe oud is… Continue reading How old is young?
Not to be captured in a single labcoat
“Niet in één labjas te vangen” (“Not to be captured in a single lab coat”) – that is the title of the presentation with which postdoctoral researcher Frauke Pauwels shone on the stage of the final of the Flemish PhD Cup on Tuesday 18 October. Second out of eight candidates, in a mere three minutes… Continue reading Not to be captured in a single labcoat