This project aims at rethinking ways of reading and writing change in African gender history. Looking at oral historical narratives and the transgenerational communication of historical knowledge among the Yaawo-speaking ...read more
This project concerns the practice of excluding women or men from religious sites and religious practices in Japan, and the complex interconnections among religion, traditions, and cultural heritage in the ...read more
The project seeks to expand the histories of early modern art and science by recalibrating the definition and scope of Renaissance mathematical knowledge through the drawings, prints, and treatises that ...read more
This project focuses on the use of language and poetic form in relation to concerns of embodiment and legibility in trans poetry, as it explores the familiar poetic relation between ...read more
This project addresses the theoretical and methodological questions of embodied interaction with multimedia installation art through body movement and the use of mediation technology. The ultimate goal is the definition ...read more
The proposed research aims to investigate the transnational adoption of children from the perspectives of actors in ‘sending’ countries. These perspectives have received insufficient attention in adoption research so far, ...read more
Indian dances have since long inspired women around the world, not only increasing the international success of staged performances, but also inspiring large numbers of Euro-American women to learn and/or ...read more
The main goal of this research is to understand how Roman Catholic women in Flanders conceptualize topics such as love, relationships, and intimacy; and to gain a better understanding of ...read more
In the fall of 2018, the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender with support of the Flemish Ministry of Equal Opportunities, will launch an information platform about variations of ...read more
This project will investigate the extent to which family relations, and more specifically ties of descent, formed a constitutive part of personal and social identity. Traditionally, Roman society has been ...read more