Yoruba print culture is important because of its articulation of the relationship between transcontinental print networks (between Lagos and London, for instance) and local contexts of production. The newspapers, small ...read more
The Deng Jue Si 等覺寺 (Deng Jue Temple) is the most important temple in the Menghua area (Yunnan Province) in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It was first built in the ...read more
This project proposes an interdisciplinary research in the fields of children’s literature studies and translation studies. It aims to get a better understanding of multimodal children’s literature in translation and ...read more
Bodhgaya in eastern India is the site of the Mahabodhi temple and it has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree ...read more
This project investigates how women in later life reimagine ways of living and loving through practices of sensuality and pleasure. It explores the potential of pleasure to subvert social norms ...read more
The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2021), involved a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims to ...read more
This project challenges the established chronology of the Counter-Reformation by investigating Catholic investments in material culture in the Low Countries in the transitional period from c. 1535 to c. 1585. ...read more
After World War II, the number of illustrated art books on the market rose rapidly. Following technological improvements and greater availability of photographic reproductions of artworks, publishers and art historians ...read more
In 2022 the Frans Masereel Centre in Kasterlee celebrates 50 years of existence. The institution seizes the jubilee as an opportunity to write the history of the Centre, resulting in a publication, ...read more
In 2020 the archives of Plus-Kern Gallery (exhibition history, artists' correspondence, press clippings, administration) have been bequeathed to Ghent University by Jenny Van Driessche.
In collaboration with the staff of the Ghent ...read more