CINECOS will develop an open access platform for sharing, enriching, analysing and sustaining data on cinema history in Flanders and Belgium from 1896 onwards. Integrating 14 existing datasets covering key ...read more
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
The cluster “Multicultural Dunhuang: Manuscripts and Paintings” examines the connections between Dunhuang manuscripts and paintings, particularly during the tenth century. A central aim of the project is to bring together ...read more
My research project investigates top-down strategies—a series of measures initiated by President Vladimir Putin and implemented by the state apparatus—in which Russia’s literary heritage was utilized both as an instrument ...read more
A striking feature of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt (305–30 BC) is the apparent extent of state controland intervention in industry and trade. A multitude of state-imposed rules and regulations can ...read more
This project investigates how modern Chinese Islamic thinkers accommodated the novel category of "religion" and renegotiated the position of Islam in twentieth-century and contemporary China by studying the complex relations ...read more
This research project is a joined effort of the Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren and Ghent University, committed to mapping human occupation and land use from the Late Iron Age to ...read more
Due to large scale electrification, demand for copper rose exponentially at the end of the 19th century. New copper resources were found across the world, particularly South America and ...read more
This project examined early marriage practices among Syrian refugees in Jordan in relation to their Sexual and Reproductive Health. The team of this collaborative anthropological research project consisted of anthropologists based in ...read more