This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – ...read more
Mensen zijn gelijk voor de wet. Dit principe is stevig verankerd in de juridische doctrine van de Verlichting en zodoende ook in de liberale Belgische grondwet. De praktijk blijkt echter ...read more
This project approaches exclusionary practices in current academic historiographies of post-1970 feminisms in Belgium as a mirror for power dynamics in that past itself. The remembrance of this past as straight ...read more
In this project CDL and Tecolab, both affiliated with Ghent University, combine their complementary expertise to develop an e-course 'multilingualism and learning' for working teachers in nursary, primary and secondary ...read more
This project intends to understand better how Greek medieval letters had a concrete function in society, and were at the same time crafted as highly sophisticated rhetorical works of art. ...read more
Bodhgaya in eastern India is the site of the Mahabodhi temple and it has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree ...read more
This project investigates views on the internal body in premodern Japan. In particular, the theory of the five viscera, or gozôron will be of interest. Several handwritten sources from the ...read more
This project investigates how women in later life reimagine ways of living and loving through practices of sensuality and pleasure. It explores the potential of pleasure to subvert social norms ...read more
Notwithstanding that medieval gender history focusing on women’s engagement with power has flourished as an academic field since the 1980s, it still shows important lacunas in the assessment of aristocratic women’s diplomatic roles ...read more
This project aims to trace and understand the place of Greek in education and literary culture in Gaul in the Late Roman and Early Medieval periods (ca. A.D. 300 – ...read more