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
This research project investigates the technical and pedagogical practices of medieval Chinese Buddhism by focusing on exegetical diagrams preserved in Dunhuang from the 8th to 10th centuries. Known both as ...read more
This research project aims at addressing a gap in scholarly literature on Hellenistic poetry by looking at Hellenistic verse inscriptions, and more specifically the ones coming from the ‘Greek East’, ...read more
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
People @ War. A social history of the Second World War and its Remembrance in Belgium is a joint initiative by the State Archives / CegeSoma and Ghent university within ...read more
Over the past years, in Europe and the US, various initiatives were launched to #namethe translator on the cover of books. Does increased visibility for translators and translations necessarily lead ...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 project studies the overlooked history of peer review in the humanities between 1950 and today. In this period, peer review, i.e., the institutionalized evaluations of research and researchers by ...read more
In Spring 2024, the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) is dedicating an archive presentation to Art Systems in Latin America, an exhibition of contemporary Latin American art that traveled to ...read more
Today's parliamentary democracy has a long history. During the Ancien Regime, representative institutions known as "Estates," "Diet", "Riksdag", "Parliament" or "Cortes" existed in many European countries. They were the counterparts ...read more