The Fengzeng system is an important part of the ancient Chinese bureaucratic system. However, until now, academic research on this topic has remained scarce. PhD student Sun Jian selected it ...read more
'Eutopia Unbound' investigates the narrative construction of 'good places' in the late-modern era. The research uncovers four types of eutopias (the oasis, the capsule, the hub, and the bazaar) that ...read more
The overall goal of this doctoral study is to investigate the different types of modal markers in Kirundi, to describe their syntactic properties and semantic values, and to establish their ...read more
Ik beoog de diachrone studie en reconstructie van de ideeën inzake apostasie (irtidād), blasfemie (sabb) en innovatie (bid‘a) van Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), één van de invloedrijkste moslimdenkers in heden en ...read more
MP3 is an ongoing 'open' relational database that operates as the basic research tool ('laboratory') for those members of the UGent Mamluk team that use prosopographical, sociographical and discourse-oriented methodologies; ...read more
The Kosovo Early Warning System Project is aimed at building the capacity of local analysts to foresee potential crises, and based on its findings to advise on crisis prevention policies. ...read more
Creatively operationalizing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ predicament that food is good to think with, I initiate a methodological conceptualization of food by exploring the ways in which it is apt to study ...read more
Het proefschrift behandelt Filafani, ‘Fila-stof‘ of door de Fila/Peul beschilderd moddertextiel, in de periode van 1997-2007 in de Senufo-gemeenschap van Folona in Zuid-Mali. In een combinatie van kunstwetenschappelijke en antropologische ...read more
This project aims at closing the gap between musical experience and the digital/electronic environments that provide this experience (see Leman, 2007). Solutions will be based on empirical methods and advanced ...read more