Current PhD projects

  • A digital investigation of the journals edited by Charles Dickens (Ognyan Ognyanov Darinov)
  • 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)
  • Regelpoetiken der Gegenwart: Algorithmische Transformationen literarischer Ästhetik (Hana Lisa Reichert)
  • Theater und Wirklichkeit. Eine vergleichende Studie zur Kommunikationsstruktur zwischen Bühne und Publikum im zeitgenössischen Theater (Johann Emilian Horras) (Supervisor: Dieter Heimböckel)
  • Les Arts plastiques au Luxembourg durant: les années 1920 à 1960 (Claude Kremer) (Supervisor: Georg Mein)
  • Chinaerkundung: Konstruktion der sprachlichen Fremdheit in den deutschen Reiseberichten des frühen 20. und 21. Jahrhunderts (Jinjie Liang) (Supervisor: Dieter Heimböckel)
  • 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)
  • Polycentric diplomacy in practice. Secretary-diplomats and other diplomatic actors of the Habsburg-Spanish Netherlands during and after the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1659) (Aurélien Destain)
  • Ressourcen und Provenienz – Wie gestaltete sich die spätrömische und frühmittelalterliche Logistik und Landschaft? (Mario Ranzinger)
  • After a good life a decent death? Sociotechnical animal slaughtering innovations in the Greater Region’s meat sector: negotiations, regulations, networks (Cyrille Delvaux) (Supervisor: Rachel Reckinger)
  • L’instrumentum en bois et la structuration de sa production dans la cité des Trévires (Ie s. A.C.N. – IVe s. P.C.N.) au travers des chutes, des traces de fabrication et des marqueurs de spécialisation (Maxime Duval) (Supervisor: Andrea Binsfeld)
  • Entre l’usure et le réapprovisionnement : la bataille des Ardennes sous le prisme de la logistique militaire (Noëlle Manoni) (Supervisor: Sonja Kmec)
  • Les camps de prisonniers de guerre en Moselle et en Sarre dans le système de travail forcé nazi. Territoires, histoire(s), mémoires (Chrystalle Zebdi-Bartz) (Supervisor: Sonja Kmec)
  • In affirmation of all that becomes: Posthumanism in contemporary, Luxembourgish literature (Pierre Balthasar) (Supervisor: Jeanne E. Glesener)
  • Variation detection and classification in written Luxembourgish (Anne-Marie Lutgen) (Supervisor: Christoph Purschke)
  • Stance detection in Luxembourgish online text archives (Emilia Milano) (Supervisor: Christoph Purschke)
  • Variationslinguistische Untersuchungen zur luxemburgischen Jugendkommunikation. Eine Analyse von Gebrauchsstrukturen in Whatsapp-Interaktionen (Melissa Mujkić) (Supervisor: Peter Gilles)
  • Les petits marchés du livre multilingues (Inge Orlowski) (Supervisor: Jeanne E. Glesener)
  • Sproochastellunge vu Grenzgänger*innen am méisproochege Lëtzebuerg (Lou Pepin) (Supervisor: Peter Gilles)
  • La traduction juridique vers le Luxembourgeois : comment traduire le droit dans une langue sans terminologie juridique (Christine Schmit) (Supervisor: Peter Gilles)
  • Code-switching in written Luxembourgish: Computational modeling and perceptions (Jacques Spedener) (Supervisor: Christoph Purschke)
  • A System for the Automatic Translation of Luxembourgish (Nils Rehlinger) (Supervisor: Peter Gilles)
  • Portuguese as heritage language in Luxembourg (Mélanie Gonçalves Marques) (Supervisor: Constanze Weth)
  • 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) (Supervisor: Gabriele Budach)
  • Multilingualism in mentoring and tutoring (Yimin Zhang) (Supervisor: Ingrid de Saint-Georges)
  • Homeschooling of primary school children Luxembourg’s multilingual curriculum and its outcomes (Yana Nebolsina) (Supervisor: Claudine Kirsch)
  • The Critique of the Power of Judgment (Julian Grewe) (Supervisor: Dietmar Heidemann)
  • Imagination and fiction (Kieran Alexander Salt) (Supervisor: Frank Hofmann)
  • The Epistemology of AI systems (Johan Largo) (Supervisor: Thomas Raleigh)
  • Self-Knowledge and the Ontology of Mental States (Daniel Barrio-Martinez) (Supervisor: Thomas Raleigh)
  • 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) (Supervisor: Philippe Poirier)
  • L’information parlementaire dans la conception de la vie (Louise Batôt) (Supervisor: Philippe Poirier)
  • Transnational political participation of intra-European immigrants living in North Western Europe; Study case: Romanian immigrants living in Paris and Brussels (Sorina Carstea) (Supervisor: Philippe Poirier)
  • Les valeurs et les comportements politiques des femmes au Luxembourg (Claire Poumarat) (Supervisor: Philippe Poirier)
  • Edition critique d’un inédit d’Anise Koltz (Marvin Andrieux) (Supervisor: Hélène Barthelmebs)
  • Digital scape and activism of self-education (Kseniia Fedorova) (Supervisor: Gian Maria Tore)
  • Vices and Virtues of Material Constraints for Documentary Film Aesthetics (Based on the Luxembourgish and Armenian Documentary Films) (Sergey Kirakosyan) (Supervisor: Gian Maria Tore)
  • What do clothes want : le figural à l’épreuve des défilés de Martin Margiela et d’Alexander McQueen (Alexis Vandeweerd) (Supervisor: Nathalie Roelens)