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  • BELSTAT 40-45. Ontwikkeling van een databank van oorlogsstatistieken in België (1940-45)

    2026

    BELSTAT 40–45 bundelt recentelijk ontsloten demografische en sociaaleconomische gegevens uit België tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog in een gestructureerde statistische databank. Door verspreide bronnen, die pas sinds 2000 systematisch toegankelijk zijn, ...read more

    • History

  • Translation of the Japanese engi 縁起 texts

    2025

    This research project focuses on the translation of Japanese engi 縁起 texts, produced at local Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines before the 20th century. These texts typically relate the histories ...read more

    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Gender
    • History
    • Literary studies
    • Religion
    • Translation Studies

  • Vignettes of the life of the Buddha at Dunhuang during the Tang and five dynasties

    2025

    Episodes of the Buddha’s life are portrayed at the Dunhuang grottoes either as large-scale separate murals or as small vignettes painted in an illustration of the sutra. For a long ...read more

    • 10th century Chinese Buddhist art
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Buddha biography
    • Buddhist iconography
    • Chinese medieval Buddhism
    • Dunhuang manuscripts
    • Dunhuang Mogao caves
    • Dunhuang studies
    • English
    • Field research
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Language and text analysis
    • Medieval China
    • Middle Ages
    • Oriental languages
    • Religion

  • Japanese gods in Belgium

    2025

    This project focuses on the research of provenance and meaning of the religious objects featuring Japanese deities (kami 神 and buddhas 仏) and present in the museum and private collections ...read more

    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Gender
    • History
    • Literary studies
    • Religion

  • The palestinian women's movements

    2025

    For decades, Palestinian women's movements have moved and continue to move in the field of tension of a double resistance - characterised by the struggle against occupation and the challenges ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Arabic
    • Area studies
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Media
    • Middle East
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • Re-BAR. Boundaries of the religious

    2025

    This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Arabic
    • Area studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Didactics
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Middle Ages
    • Middle East
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • Hagiographic entanglements of the long tenth century

    2025

    This project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in this ...read more

    • Comparative
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • Middle Ages
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • Benefactors and their cities in the late Roman Eastern Mediterranean

    2025

    This project aims at offering a fresh study of public generosity and benefactors in the late Roman period in the Eastern Mediterranean as a way to advance three key debates which feature prominently ...read more

    • History
    • Late Antiquity

  • Research on the influence of buddhism on the historical ‘city-mountain’ landscape in southwest China

    2025

    Throughout Chinese history, mountain worship has shaped the spatial order of ancient cities as a cultural and spiritual anchor, forming a unique "city-mountain" landscape imbued with regional identity and philosophical/religious ...read more

    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Buddhism and urban space
    • Buddhist cultural heritage
    • Buddhist landscapes
    • Chinese
    • Chinese Buddhism
    • City landscapes
    • City Mountain landscape
    • English
    • Far East
    • Field research
    • gazetteers
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Philosophy
    • Religion
    • Religion and urban space
    • religious landscapes
    • Southwestern China
    • Surveys
    • Urban space
    • 方志

  • Language variation in Latin hagiography of the long tenth century

    2025

    By the end of the ninth century CE, vernacular languages had definitively replaced Latin in everyday oral interactions throughout the Carolingian world. However, Latin remained by and large dominant in ...read more

    • computational linguistics
    • Digital humanities
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • lectometry
    • Linguistics
    • Middle Ages
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe