Projects

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S.O.S. Antwerp, 1820-1946

2020

S.O.S. Antwerp (Sociale Ongelijkheid in Sterfte) is a citizen science project financed by the Flemish Government. Its aim is to create and analyse a high-quality database of causes of death ...read more
Cracking the code to the letterbox. Phonological awareness and reading in deaf children

2020

The proposed pioneering project will investigate the relationships between reading, Flemish Sign Language (VGT) sign phonological awareness, fingerspelling, and speechreading. To this day the impact of these phonological skills on the reading development of Flemish ...read more
This story may provide proof. History and authority in Syriac excerpt collections and beyond

2020

Combining intellectual history with material philology, this project studies the authority attributed to histories in Syriac excerpt collections (6-10th c). It uses unstudied material to analyse the intertwining of identity ...read more
Greek
History
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Middle East
Oriental languages
Newly arrived migrants in secondary schools. Charting linguistic expectations and didactic practices, exploring new possibilities

2020

The aim of this project is to compare the linguistic reality of Dutch immersion classes for newly arrived migrants to the linguistic reality of Dutch-medium instruction in secondary education. Additionally, ...read more
Dutch
Field research
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Quantitative
Tours on paper. Literary explorations of the travel guide book (itinerarium) in late antiquity and the early middle ages

2020

The project, 'Tours on Paper. Literary Explorations of the Travel Guide Book (Itinerarium) in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Age' (2019-2023), involves a literary-historical analyss of Latin narratives of pilgrims ...read more
Art
Greek
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Middle East
Religion
Southern Europe
Western Europe
Motherhood and lived religion. Empirical study on perceptions and experiences of shiite mothering in Belgium

2020

This project seeks to research the relationship between lived religion, perceptions and experiences of motherhood among Shiite women in Belgium. Under the umbrella notion of motherhood, the research includes women ...read more
AMICA. Adjusting multilingual information provision on communication needs in asylum reception

2020

Good communication can make a difference. This is often underestimated in contexts of asylum and migration, where other priorities (than language) prevail. This is particularly tangible in the reception of ...read more
Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China. The paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing

2020

This research proposes to investigate the characteristically Chinese concept of fate (ming) in terms of spiritual-psychological agency. Fate has always played a pervasive role in ancient Chinese thought and folk religion. However, fate ...read more
IPEM livestream concerts

2020

Gentse Feesten: IPEM presents The Experimental Sessions. This year Gentse Feesten were cancelled… but luckily not entirely! There are some great online alternatives to the many concerts and events that ...read more
Buddhist Ideology and Propaganda in the Indic Northwest: A Study in Avadāna Literature

2020

Proceeding from the maxim that 'nothing can be understood apart from context', this research projects seeks to do that which is rarely done in the study of Buddhist literature. It ...read more
Antiquity
Asia
Buddhism
History
Language and text analysis
Oriental languages
Religion
Sanskrit

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