Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness. This project advances ...read more
The Romans were the first to introduce communal bathing habits in northern Gaul (modern Belgium, Northern France and part of the Netherlands). These highly technological and richly decorated bathhouses were ...read more
How are rhetoric and medicine combined in the early modern Italian literature? What role does the vernacular play? Which is the legacy of this literature? This project will contribute to ...read more
This study will apply select lexical dicta of the Atticist lexicographer Phrynichus to the documentary evidence. I will analyse the data collected from inscriptions, papyri (including ostraca and wooden panels) ...read more
Funded by the FNRS (PDR T.0091.16, 2016-2020) and the ULB/Brussels-Wallonia Federation (Action de recherche concertée, 2016-2019), this project sets out to describe and understand how teachers reconcile the irreconcilable: it ...read more
If we ask you what we inherited from the Italian Renaissance, your thoughts will possibly run to the artworks that fascinate scholars and students all around the world. But, along with ...read more
The documentary (non-literary) Greek material of Egypt (papyri, ostraca, inscriptions), as well as additional literary and semi-literary comparanda, will be collated and analysed to contextualise the processes of change taking ...read more
This study will make a new interpretation of "Yongming poetic style" poems from political perspective and argues that these poems are not a reaction to "a peaceful flourishing age" as ...read more
International conference on reconstructing proto-Bantu grammar, organized by the UGent Centre for Bantu Studies (BantUGent) and the RMCA Service of Culture & Society (Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren), ...read more
The project seeks to expand the histories of early modern art and science by recalibrating the definition and scope of Renaissance mathematical knowledge through the drawings, prints, and treatises that ...read more