Projects

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A mixed-method investigation of the potential of aikido, a Japanese martial art, as a means to improve intercultural encounters and communication

2019

In our fast-changing world that is ever-more characterised by global flows, systems and networks, intercultural communication is a dynamic field. The ubiquity of cultural and linguistic contact in a ‘flat’ ...read more
Communication
Interculturalism
A socio-semiotic approach to code-switching and bigraphism in late antique documentary papyri

2019

The PhD project "A Socio-semiotic Approach to Code-switching and Bigraphism in Late Antique Documentary Papyri" is part of the ERC-funded project "Everyday writing in Graeco-Roman and late antique Egypt (I ...read more
Communication
Interculturalism
Linguistics
MATCH-eN

2019

MATCH-eN is a TETRA research project funded by VLAIO. The aim of the project is to develop, test and evaluate an open, shared knowledge platform that allows Flemish social profit ...read more
Communication
Field research
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Surveys
Translation Studies
Remember Africa? The effects of twice-migration on the religious and cultural lives of British ‘East African’ Jains

2019

The project "Remember Africa?” uses different types of contemporary memorial projects and narratives of individual Jains in the UK to address the experience of twice-migration and its impact upon religious ...read more
20th Century
Africa
Area studies
Asia
Contemporary
Field research
History
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Religion
Western Europe
The development of standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Yunnan, Southwest China

2019

The PhD project studies the development of Standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Pu'er (Yunnan), with the following questions as key issues: (1) What is ...read more
Akha
Area studies
Asia
Chinese
Chinese education
Contemporary
Didactics
English
Far East
Field research
Hani culture
Hani dialects
Hani language
Hani minority
Hani standard language
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Minority education in China
Oriental languages
Surveys
Tibeto-Burman languages
HUB Diversity in Development

2019

The HUB Diversity in Development wants to utilize diversity in order to increase opportunities to develop and to build a future for all children, youth and adults in Ghent, in a sustainable way. We ...read more
Belgium
Contemporary
Didactics
Diversity in education
Dutch
Gender
Interculturalism
Social innovation
Language and legal counselling. A linguistic ethnography of multilingual support in the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium

2019

Since the second half of 2015, Europe has faced a substantial increase in the number of refugees and asylum seekers in need of international protection (UNHCR, 2015). EU law requires ...read more
Communication
Interculturalism
Linguistics
The system of Mohist logic and its methodology (新原辩)

2018

The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more
Antiquity
Asia
Chinese
English
Ethics and morality
French
German
History
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Philosophy
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
Governance, gender, entrepreneurship and ICT in Tanzania (Phase II: VLIRUOS-IUS MU)

2018

Second phase of the VLIRUOS-IUS with Mzumbe U, now with focus on transversal themes, after successful midterm evaluation in April 2018 (yet still pending formulation week of May 2018). The ...read more
Africa
Area studies
Interculturalism

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