This research programme, for which Ghent University collaborates with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, aims at explaining how orientalism was introduced, perceived and propagated in the Belgian ...read more
The project was devoted to a comparative study of Fromondus’ and Descartes’ work on meteorology. It undertook a broad historiographical study of the status of meteorology in the early modern ...read more
My dissertation consists of a metaphilosophical investigation into the project of defining art. Many deem this project to be both impossible and futile. My two main objectives were: (1) to ...read more
The central questions of this research project are: i) What is the correlation between the adoption of Newtonian physics and the acceptance of determinism? ii) Should the question whether nature ...read more
The complexity of reading in a non-native language makes such a task almost insurmountable. Set against the multilingual educational background of Mozambique, this study explores the complexity of FL (Foreign ...read more
The project is situated in the field of phonology and aims to provide an in-depth analysis of how childrenacquire the sound system of a second language (L2). While previous research ...read more
Born from the Arnamagnæan Summer School in Manuscript Studies, 6 members of the Master Class of 2010 decided to work together on a project they entitled 'Personent Hodie Text Edition ...read more
Byzantine book epigrams do not currently receive the attention from the scholarly world that they certainly deserve. This is due to several reasons. The corpus of epigrams presents itself currently ...read more