Formulaic texts constitute a core interest of researchers working at UGent. Within the Greek section, there are two major ongoing research projects about such genres, an ERC-project about ‘everyday’ texts ...read more
The Digo subgroup are tone of the groups in the Mijikenda community in Kenya. They primarily inhabit the southern coast and interior regions of Kwale, Kenya. The Digo people possess a ...read more
This project explores the process of transnational identity construction among Latin American migrants in transit through Mexico. Facing significant challenges in an increasingly hostile political climate towards migration, migrants actively ...read more
Buddhist Sūtra Literature represents the diverse, discursive genre of scripture held to be canonical by various Buddhist traditions because it was considered to be buddhavacana (words spoken by the Buddha). ...read more
This research solves knowledge gaps concerning Vietnamese religion and philosophy in the 18th century (“zoomed-out”) by analyzing the inclusion of the Chinese Three Teachings (i.e., Confucianism, Daoism, and Buddhism) in Le ...read more
This project sets out to provide a historiography of Kikongo language studies and management between 1624 and 1960. It will provide a detailed analysis and historical contextualization of linguistic sources ...read more
In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more
Between 1948 and 1994, the National Party installed the apartheid regime in South Africa, based on the communicating vessels of racism and sexism, which permeated the entire country and its ...read more
Places and spaces designed for social dance often had an ephemeral quality between 1756 - 1830 in the Southern Netherlands and the Pays de Liège. Before 1800 real dedicated ballrooms ...read more
The project 'Space for Philippe Van Snick. Physical and Digital Space for the Conservation and Public Disclosure of the archives of Philippe Van Snick (1968-1990)' is a pilot project of ...read more