In the four decades before the First World War, the world increasingly globalized. A highly connected economy integrated distant parts of the world into one global market. Belgium, a young ...read more
This research looks into the role and impact of the Internet in reproducing and adapting religion in transnational contexts, through a case study of a South Asian religious tradition, namely ...read more
This project starts out from the vision books of Hildegard of Bingen, which present allegorical visions together with their exegesis. The project asks whether this use of allegorical creation could ...read more
This PhD project charts the transformation of the artistic male nude in fin-de-siècle Belgium, in light of the changing views of masculinity and male sociability which are often said to ...read more
The aim of this project is to investigate the evolution of the gerund and the present participle from Late Latin to Medieval French. As a result of phonetic evolutions these ...read more
The aim of this project entitled ‘The internal syntax of QPs’, is to look inside quantifiers (Qs) and to identify the building blocks they are composed of. At first sight, ...read more
Genealogies and chronicles are biased products which offer an indirect insight in specific political and ideological strategies. This project deals with the gendered representation of male and female rulers in ...read more
This project wishes to integrate the concept of "chronopolitics" in the historiographical traditions which study the emergence of modern policy-making in the 18th century, the political Enlightenment as the construction ...read more
CROSS is an interuniversity research group (UGent-VUB) which aims at investigating phenomena of code-switching and code-mixing as expressions of the hybrid identity of Latin-American immigrant authors in the United States. ...read more
This PhD project is situated within the field of Romance comparative Linguistics and studies the behavior of verbs of putting, which are commonly used to express placement movements in space. ...read more