Ongoing PhD projects

English Studies

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

German Studies

• 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)
• Giving voice to minority language speakers: a study on multilingual policies and practices in higher education (Argyro-Maria Skourmalla)
• Performing pluralistic societies. Interculturality and internationalisation in Luxembourg’s theatre 1980-2020 (Corina Ostafi)

History

• (Re)Building Tell Nebi Yunus, Mosul, Iraq: Using Digital 3D Reconstruction and Finite Element Analysis to Restore and Virtually Investigate 2,700 years of Iraqi Cultural Heritage (Juan Francisco Aguilar Kons)
• 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 (Maximillian Jesiolowski)
• Climate and environmental events in Antiquity and Early Middle Ages: A contribution to the archaeology of climate change (Ilenia Petrarulo)
• Gouverner par les maux : Santé, pratique(s) et culture(s) médicales à la cour de Marie de Hongrie (1531-1558) (Lison Vercammen)

Luxembourg Studies

• Variation detection and classification in written Luxembourgish (Anne-Marie Lutgen)
• Stance detection in Luxembourgish online text archives (Emilia Milano)
• Variationslinguistische Untersuchungen zur luxemburgischen Jugendsprache. Eine Analyse von Gebrauchsstrukturen in Messenger-Interaktionen (Melissa Mujkić)
• Spracheinstellungen in Luxemburg (Lou Pepin)
• 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)

Multilingualism

• Portuguese as heritage language in Luxembourg (Mélanie Gonçalves Marques)
• Revisiting the Concept of Intercultural Competence in a Globalising World: European and Chinese Perspectives on Culture and Interculturality in the Business area (Shuai Mao)
• Multilingual artists on the intersection of language, creativity, and artistic practice (Madelaine Wood)
• Multilingualism in mentoring and tutoring (Yimin Zhang)

Philosophy

• The Critique of the Power of Judgment (Julian Grewe)
• 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)
• The Epistemology of AI systems (Johan Largo)

Research Chair in Parliamentary Studies

• 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)

Romance Studies, Media & Arts

• Edition critique d’un inédit d’Anise Koltz (Marvin Andrieux)
• L’épopée indo-européenne, genre et valeur : une approche théorique (Armand Erchadi)
• Digital scape and activism of self-education (Kseniia Fedorova)
• Développement des compétences littéraciques des étudiants grâce à l’enseignement numérique dans un contexte multilingue et interculturel (Corine Philippart)