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Interculturalism
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  • 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

  • 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

  • Genocide commemoration in the Rwandan diaspora

    2018

    This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe

  • Children in comics. An intercultural history from 1865 to today

    2018

    Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness. This project advances ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Body
    • carnivalesque
    • childhood studies
    • Children's literature
    • Comics studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • family
    • French
    • Gender
    • German
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • North America
    • Northern Europe
    • Southern Europe
    • Spanish
    • Western Europe

  • The effect of linguistic wrapping on customer outcomes. A closer look at interpersonal strategies in German and UK B2C complaint management

    2017

    This research project further explores the influence of language on customer outcomes in service contexts. Focusing on a German and UK B2C setting, it intends to study how interpersonal strategies ...read more

    • Communication
    • Interculturalism
    • Linguistics

  • Global families, global inequalities. The politics of child relinquishment, search and reunion in transnational adoption

    2017

    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

    • 20th Century
    • Andean studies
    • Contemporary
    • Critical adoption studies
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • Family studies
    • Feminist theory
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Indigenous studies
    • Interculturalism
    • Kinship studies
    • Latin American studies
    • Postcolonial studies
    • South America
    • Spanish
    • Subaltern studies

  • An intellectual genealogy of islam in modern China. Categorization, modernization, secularization

    2017

    This project investigates how modern Chinese Islamic thinkers accomodated the novel category of "religion" and renegotiated the position of Islam in twentieth-century and contemporary China by studying the complex relations ...read more

    • Area studies
    • Ethics and morality
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • Kala (Black) for Kalbeliya, Saphed (white) for Kalbeliya. Intercultural dialogues between Indian and Euro-American practitioners of Kalbeliya dance

    2017

    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

    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Hindi
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Media
    • Music
    • North America
    • Northern Europe
    • Oriental languages
    • South America
    • Southern Europe
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Western Europe