Projects

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Fertility frontiers. A global history of transnational reproduction in Belgium from cross-feminist perspective

2022

The global demise in intercountry adoption procedures is opening up newer, technologically advanced fertility frontiers, including transnational egg donation and surrogacy, through which infertile couples are building the biogenetic families ...read more
A cross-cultural study of the origin and development of the “Three Hares” motif in the Dunhuang Mogao caves

2022

The main goal of this research is to examine, investigate and analyse the features and composition of the Three Hares motif in the Dunhuang 敦煌 Mogao Caves (Mogaoku 莫高窟), in ...read more
Archaeology
Area studies
Art
Asia
Chinese
Dunhuang studies
English
Iconography and analysis of images
Interculturalism
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Mogao caves
Religion
Silk Road
Three hare motif
Interrogating islamic roads to conviviality

2022

This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium. It aims to reveal the modalities in which Islamic ...read more
Contemporary
Conviviality
Ethics and morality
Field research
Interculturalism
Islamic ethics
Islam in Europe
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Religion
Western Europe
The making of the second sophistic. Literary periodization as an intellectual and cultural construct

2022

The aim of the research is to trace the history of the concept of the “Second Sophistic”. This label is broadly assigned to an intellectual movement involving Greek-speaking intellectuals in ...read more
19th Century
Ancient rhetoric
Antiquity
French
German
Greek
History
History of scholarship
Imperial literature
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Philosophy
Second Sophistic literature
Communication and interaction. An investigation on the cultural and religious history of Turfan in the 4th to 8th centuries

2022

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Strategic Institutional Partnership (SIP). Ghent University and the University of Toronto

2022

The Strategic Institutional Partnership (SIP) between Ghent University and the University of Toronto brings together the research expertise at both institutions to explore and test interdisciplinary responses to global challenges. This ...read more
Crises as opportunities. Towards a level telling field on migration and a new narrative of successful integration

2022

The humanitarian tragedy of 2015-16 fuelled anti-European sentiment, allowing populists to successfully reframe the refugee crisis as a crisis of Europe itself. OPPORTUNITIES shows how we can move beyond this ...read more
The social life of early Netherlandish painting

2022

This project aims to identify the social networks in which Early Netherlandish painting originated and circulated in c. 1400-1550. Scholars all agree that the frequent commissioning and purchase of paintings ...read more
Children’s periodicals from the Van Passen Collection demanding interaction

2022

This one-year postdoctoral research project investigates how 1930s-1960s children’s periodicals from the Van Passen collection demanded their child readers to interact with their content. The hypothesis is that these periodicals opened to the ...read more
Institutionalized resistance. Milo Rau's NTGent period

2022

"Institutionalized Resistance: Milo Rau’s NTGent Period" will explore Swiss-German director Milo Rau’s work with Nederlands Toneel Gent (NTGent), one of Belgium’s most important cultural institutions, looking at both Rau’s work as a ...read more
Theatre and performing arts

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