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
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
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 will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
This research investigates a music composition model that includes creating the musical instruments for which the score is written. In this method a musical instrument is considered, first and foremost, a ...read more
The 11th century is commonly seen as the time when Western Christianity first drew strict moral and behavioural boundaries between the servants of the Church and the laity. Recent scholarship ...read more
The persuasive function of metaphorical language has long been taken for granted, both inside and outside of the field of linguistics. Due to their ability to structure more abstract topics ...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