Europeans introduced the print culture to other continents. However, the Yoruba people in Nigeria used specific terms to describe modernity before the arrival of the Europeans. There is no study ...read more
This project examines residential patterns in Ghent between c. 1670 and 1850, focusing on the evolution of socioeconomic segregation. This period is especially fascinating because it covers the transition from ...read more
This project is intended to examine why people believe in a bullshit assumption or theory at the expense of reason and evidence focusing on Ethiopian experiences. Due to lack of ...read more
This project aims to provide an epistemological analysis of the practice of chemistry in different contexts in the second half of the 18th century and of the interaction between actors ...read more
This project aims to get a better understanding of the social history of Indian philosophy. For this purpose, this project will investigate the history of philosophy at Nalanda, the most ...read more
Multiple registers coexisting within the same linguistic system and the creation of grammars codifying one of these registers as ‘the standard’ are phenomena common to many languages. The same issues are observed ...read more
This project aims to determine the text characteristics of reading materials used in the Flemish EFL and FFL classroom, as well as the influence of these text characteristics on learners' ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
Sheldon Pollock’s influential theories on the cosmopolitan and ‘secular’ nature of Sanskrit literature and the vernacularisation of regional Indian literatures as top-down processes which originate in royal courts do not ...read more
LOKSTAT + is an extension of LOKSTAT, the database of local statistics in Belgium (1800- 1970). LOKSTAT (developed at UGent) is a digital database of demographic, socio-economic and political-institutional statistics, ...read more