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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

  • 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

  • Language and legal counselling: A linguistic ethnography of multilingual support in the legal assistance to asylum seekers in Belgium

    2019

    Problem statement

    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 ...read more

    • Communication
    • Interculturalism
    • Linguistics

  • 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

  • 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