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  • In search of the pristine environments in the lowland river system of Flanders for assessing the impact of past human occupation on current phosphate concentrations

    2019

    The Flemish region cannot cope with the guidelines set out in the European Water Framework Directive for good water quality, mainly due to excess nutrients. Over 80% of the rivers and ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Field research
    • human impact
    • past demography
    • past land-use
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Scheldt basin
    • Surveys

  • Scanning Electron Microscopy at the core of Earth Sciences: reading 4 billion years of history in backscattered light.

    2019

    This project aims to replace the Dept. of Geology’s aging Scanning Electron Microscope with a modelthat is up to challenges of modern Earth Science research in geology, archaeology and soil management. The ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Comparative
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Quantitative

  • Back to the Roots. Agroforestry and the Rediscovery of Roman Viticulture

    2019

    There is still a widespread view that Rome’s expanding economic influence over the Mediterranean in the Late Republic (ca. 200-50 BC) triggered a dramatic change in Italy’s wine industry. This ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Quantitative
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • Reading Pushkin, supporting Putin. Russian literature and the Kremlin’s nation-building agenda

    2018

    This project explores recent efforts by the Russian state to restore the flowering reading culture of Soviet times. The purpose of this policy is not fighting declining reading figures, but ...read more

    • Area studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Crisis of reading
    • Cultural politics
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • Field research
    • Globalization
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary canon
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • National identity
    • Post-soviet nostalgia
    • Russia
    • Russian
    • Russian literature

  • 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

  • Production and diffusion of bronze age solid-hilted swords in Western Europe

    2018

    The proposed study region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, belongs during the Bronze Age to an area of contact between different cultural complexes. Its western part was integrated in ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • Reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar

    2018

    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 Central Africa in Tervuren), ...read more

    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Comparative
    • Linguistics
    • Proto-Bantu

  • 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

  • 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