This project contains the writing of a monography for which Katharina Pewny has been awarded with a research sabbatical by the Flemish Research Funds (FWO, in the academic year 2016/17). ...read more
Recently, the Department of Languages and Cultures with the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University has joined a large multidisciplinary project on East Asian religions (for a short abstract, ...read more
In 2016-2018, we conducted the first policy-oriented research into intersex / Differences of Sex Development (DSD) in Flanders and Belgium, which consisted of two parts.
A Web-Based Tool for Shared Decision Making in DSD. The birth of a child with DSD is anxiety-provoking. Stressors associated with ascertaining a DSD include weathering drawn-out diagnostic testing periods, ...read more
This project studies the relation between early-nineteenth-century British periodicals and the rise of the credit economy. It argues that leading contemporaneous periodicals fostered a cultural acceptance of the new economic ...read more
The present Collaborative Research Project aims at shedding light upon some very important defining features of past and modern European identity, such as multilingualism,languages in contact and the various types of ...read more
Three different varieties of Greek used to be spoken in Cappadocia (Turkish Kapadokya) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s: Cappadocian, Pharasiot and Lycaonian Greek. From ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more
This project seeks to examine the literary representation of performance in Greek late antique hagiographical Lives of 'saints in disguise' (4th-10th c.), holy types that are usually not studied together but ...read more