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  • Modern Germans, Ancient Jews. Political representations of early Judaism in the German-speaking lands of the 19th century

    2019

    This project examines the diverse representations of early Judaism across the German-speaking lands of the 19th century. In view of the rising nation-state, it illuminates the importance of the ancient past ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • German
    • Greek
    • Historiography
    • History
    • Intellectual history
    • Judaism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Modernity
    • Oriental languages
    • Protestantism
    • Religion
    • Roman Catholicism
    • Western Europe

  • High tide, low tide: The late-medieval harbour of Bruges as a maritime-cultural landscape

    2019

    Between 2019 and 2024, an interdisciplinary team at Ghent University studies the role of Bruges as a late-medieval harbour and the maritime-cultural landscape stretching along the Zwin. This tidal inlet was ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Middle Ages
    • Northern Europe
    • Quantitative
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • 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

  • Performing Dante. A comparative analysis over a two-century fortune on European stages

    2019

    Dante Alighieri and his works, particularly the Divine Comedy, have played a key role in forming the European culture. Through different times and contexts, it appears clear that his works and ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dante studies
    • Eastern Europe
    • Field research
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Music
    • Northern Europe
    • Southern Europe
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Western Europe

  • 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

  • Embodied Learning With and From Aikido: A Mixed-Methods Investigation into Teaching Intercultural Communication Skills for the Workplace

    2019

    Abstract

    This doctoral research investigates how the Japanese martial art of aikido can be used as an embodied pedagogy to enhance intercultural business communication training. The project aims to determine ...read more

    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Didactics
    • Embodied pedagogy
    • English
    • Ethnography
    • Experiential learning
    • Field research
    • Intercultural business communication
    • Interculturalism
    • Intercultural training
    • Mixed-methods
    • Qualitative research
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys

  • 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

  • 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

  • Cognitive load in interpreting. Similarities and differences between sign language interpreters and oral interpreters

    2018

    The project aims to explore the cognitive load of sign language interpreting and compare it with oral interpreting. The premise aims to establish whether sign language interpreters face a comparable ...read more

    • Belgium
    • cognitive load
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Flemish Sign Language
    • French
    • Interpreting studies
    • Linguistics
    • North America
    • Northern Europe
    • Oceania
    • Quantitative
    • Sign language
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe