Projects

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Little children, big opportunities. Preparing future teachers to deal with diversity and poverity in ECEC

2016

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From the ground up. Buddhism and East Asian religions

2016

Recently, the Department of Languages and Cultures with the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University has joined a large multidisciplinary project on East Asian religions (for a short abstract, ...read more
15th Century
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
20th Century
Area studies
Art
Asia
Chinese
Contemporary
English
Far East
Field research
Iconography and analysis of images
Japanese
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Literary studies
Media
Middle Ages
Oriental languages
Religion
Sanskrit
MuMiL-EU. Multilingualism and minority languages in ancient Europe

2016

The present Collaborative Research Project aims at shedding light upon some very important defining features of past and modern European identity, such as multilingualism,languages in contact and the various types of ...read more
Archaeology
Area studies
History
Interculturalism
Linguistics
The impact of the physical characteristics of flint and their weathering on the preservation of prehistoric use wear traces

2016

The project aims at analyzing the relationship between the technical properties of flint artefacts from various prehistoric sites in the Scheldt valley and the origin and weathering of micro wear ...read more
Archaeology
Archaeometry
Belgium
Dutch
English
Material culture studies
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Participatory community strategy for the promotion of medicinal forest products in rural communities in the province of Pinar del Río. A case study of the municipalities of Guane and Los Palacios

2016

Despite the political will to promote traditional medicine in Cuba, there is an on-going erosion of local knowledge on medicinal plants taking place, which co-occurs with the loss of biodiversity. ...read more
MPP. Mamluk prosopography project. From a project-specific database to an open access digital humanities database for prosopographical research of late medieval Syro-Egyptian elites and networks

2016

The Mamluk Prosopography Project (MPP) is an open access digital humanities database for the study of elite social groups, networks and social/cultural practice in the Late Medieval Syro-Egyptian Mamluk Sultanate ...read more
15th Century
Arabic
Computational methods
Digital humanities
History
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Prosopography
Quantitative
Relational database
Web resource
Imagining climate change. Fiction, memory, and the anthropocene

2016

The project consists of three interrelated strands. The first, formalist strand explores the literary innovations demanded by climate change, a phenomenon whose magnitude and complexity challenge conventional modes of representation. ...read more
The literary radio play in the Low Countries (1960 - 2000). Form, function, and innovation

2016

The project focuses on the postwar literary radio play in the Low Countries (Flanders and the Netherlands), a clearly defined region where the literary radio play has constantly been kept ...read more
20th Century
Audio drama
Belgium
Dutch
English
Narrative analysis
Narratology
Radio
Western Europe
The configuration of the Spanish poetic pattern after the transition times. Literary, cultural, and social relations

2016

This project corresponds to a consistent continuation of one previous: “La configuración del patrón poético español tras la Guerra Civil: relaciones literarias, culturales y sociales”, with reference FFI2013-44041-P (01/01/2014-31/12/2016). The ...read more
Literary studies
STATE. Lordship and the rise of the state in Western Europe, 1300-1600

2016

This project pursues a new interpretation of state formation in Western Europe between 1300 and 1600. This period is considered as the key phase in the genesis of the modern ...read more