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
The project aims at the first critical edition of Tzetzes’ Theogony, which is a creative paraphrase of Hesiod’s Theogony and consists of approximately 855 political verses. My intention is to ...read more
During the last two decades, large scale infrastructure works along the Lower Scheldt river, in particular in the Waasland Scheldt polders (NW-Belgium), have revealed deeply buried and well preserved prehistoric ...read more
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
The aim of this project is to understand how professional translators deal with cognates, compared to natural bilinguals and novice translators, taking into account account the specific training of professional ...read more
This project aims to examine the linguistic and discursive practices in marriage fraud investigationsin different municipalities in Brussels where a complex chain of interviews and reports results inthe categorisation of ...read more
Although comics and children are closely linked in the popular imagination, little is known about the functioning and significance of child characters in comics. This project examines children in comics ...read more
In the fall of 2018, the Centre for Research on Culture and Gender with support of the Flemish Ministry of Equal Opportunities, will launch an information platform about variations of ...read more
The late-5th to 3rd millennium BC saw complex dynamics in nomadic and settled lifestyles in the semi-arid and arid steppe regions of Syria and Jordan, when large, often fortified cities emerged ...read more
Margaret Cavendish was the first woman to develop her philosophy through a series of treatises. Her innovative rethinking of received notions of substance, accident, matter, body, and soul allowed her ...read more