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
This project explores online harassment in Flemish journalism from an intersectional perspective. Studies have shown that online harassment is a gendered issue. Female journalists are disproportionally confronted with name-calling, verbal ...read more
The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, is intended to subsidize Taiwanese postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at an accredited educational institute abroad. The goal ...read more
What does it mean that a group of agent is jointly responsible for a certain state of affairs, decision, or action? What is the logic of collective responsibility?
Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more
During the Middle Ages, the metropolis of Bruges thrived through its oversea trade. A large tidal inlet – called Zwin – provided a navigable passage from the North Sea, ...read more