The overall goal of this doctoral study is to investigate the different types of modal markers in Kirundi, to describe their syntactic properties and semantic values, and to establish their ...read more
A study of the obstacles for and strategies of pupils with and without an immigration background in secondary education. Between 2009-2012 this interuniversitary project focused on the educational trajectories of ...read more
Ik beoog de diachrone studie en reconstructie van de ideeën inzake apostasie (irtidād), blasfemie (sabb) en innovatie (bid‘a) van Ibn Taymiyya (1263-1328), één van de invloedrijkste moslimdenkers in heden en ...read more
MP3 is an ongoing 'open' relational database that operates as the basic research tool ('laboratory') for those members of the UGent Mamluk team that use prosopographical, sociographical and discourse-oriented methodologies; ...read more
The Kosovo Early Warning System Project is aimed at building the capacity of local analysts to foresee potential crises, and based on its findings to advise on crisis prevention policies. ...read more
This FWO-funded postdoctoral research project examines how, why, and to what effect the memory of the Holocaust is invoked, mobilized, and represented in literary texts that connect the Nazi genocide ...read more
Creatively operationalizing Claude Lévi-Strauss’ predicament that food is good to think with, I initiate a methodological conceptualization of food by exploring the ways in which it is apt to study ...read more
Het proefschrift behandelt Filafani, ‘Fila-stof‘ of door de Fila/Peul beschilderd moddertextiel, in de periode van 1997-2007 in de Senufo-gemeenschap van Folona in Zuid-Mali. In een combinatie van kunstwetenschappelijke en antropologische ...read more
This project aims at closing the gap between musical experience and the digital/electronic environments that provide this experience (see Leman, 2007). Solutions will be based on empirical methods and advanced ...read more