Projects

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Turning diversity into capacity

2018

Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Belgium
Capacity building
Comparative
Contemporary
Cross-sectoral valorisation
Diversity
Dutch
English
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
North-South exchange
Social inequalities in education
Theoretical underpinnings for a user-friendly, corpus-driven, semi-bilingual, digital dictionary of Swahili

2018

The Bantu language Swahili (or Kiswahili in the language) is the lingua franca of East Africa, spoken by up to 100 million first- and second-language speakers, especially in Tanzania and ...read more
Africa
African languages
Linguistics
Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar

2018

See also https://www.bantugent.ugent.be/events/orpbgconference/

International conference on reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar, organized by the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) and the RMCA Service of Culture & Society (Royal Museum for ...read more
Africa
African languages
Comparative
Linguistics
Proto-Bantu
Genocide commemoration in the Rwandan diaspora

2018

This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Belgium
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Field research
French
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Media
Theatre and performing arts
Translation Studies
Western Europe
A semantic and etymological study on Greek ἀραρίσκω 'to adapt' and its cognates

2018

The purpose of this project is to perform a semantic and etymological study of the Greek verb ἀραρίσκω ‘to adapt’ and its cognates. The origin of the word, i.e. its ...read more
Africa
Antiquity
Asia
Central Europe
Comparative
Dutch
Eastern Europe
Eastern European languages
English
Etymology
Far East
French
German
Greek
History
Icelandic
Language and text analysis
Latin
Linguistics
Middle East
Northern Europe
Oriental languages
Proto-Indo-European
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Russian
Sanskrit
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Sociolinguistic aspects of Greek vocabulary in documentary sources. Atticism, register, and diachrony in Koine and early Byzantine Greek

2018

The documentary (non-literary) Greek material of Egypt (papyri, ostraca, inscriptions), as well as additional literary and semi-literary comparanda, will be collated and analysed to contextualise the processes of change taking ...read more
Africa
Antiquity
Greek
History
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Linguistics
Middle East
Southern Europe
An archaeological approach on early interactions between hunter-gatherers and sedentary food-producers in Western Central Africa

2018

The question of prehistoric contact between indigenous hunter-gatherers and the first sedentary communities in Western Central Africa has so far mainly been addressed by linguists, geneticists and historians in relation to the ...read more
Africa
Archaeology
Bantu
Comparative
contact archaeology
exchange
Field research
first farmers
last hunter-gatherers
Migration
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Surveys
A history of islamic law courts in Tanzania, 1950s-2010 - PhD project by Shabani Mwakalinga

2018

This research project is being undertaken by Shabani Mwakalinga, PhD candidate in the history department. It aims to establish how so-called kadhis' courts functioned in late-colonial and early independent Tanzania, what role ...read more
20th Century
Africa
African languages
Arabic
Contemporary
English
Field research
History
Governance, gender, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (Phase II: VLIRUOS-IUS MU)

2018

Second phase of the VLIRUOS-IUS with Mzumbe U, now with focus on transversal themes, after successful midterm evaluation in April 2018 (yet still pending formulation week of May 2018). The ...read more
Africa
Area studies
Interculturalism
Duplication processes in Lusoga morphosyntax

2018

Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ...read more
Africa
African languages
Bantu corpus linguistics
Comparative
Contemporary
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Lusoga
Quantitative
Surveys
Uganda