This interdisciplinary project aims at investigating climate variability on a local/regional level and its impact on human lifeways at the transition from the Pleistocene (Younger Dryas) to the Early Holocene in the Meuse ...read more
Project launched to drive awareness of new terrorist content online regulation amongst hosting service providers. Ghent University will be part of a consortium to drive greater awareness of and compliance ...read more
Scholarly work on the Edo-period pleasure quarters, both licensed (kuruwa) and otherwise (okabasho), has long been attempting to build a more precise picture of the life of female sex workers ...read more
Across all Abrahamic religions, it has been found that the more religious people are, the more children they have. However, whereas political demographers such as Eric Kaufman have shown that ...read more
This research focuses on a selection of Marcel Broodthaers' artworks, photographs, and texts created between 1957 and 1970—from the moment he realized his first photographs of Brussels to the year ...read more
This project proposes a comparative study of Spanish and Belgian modernisms and sheds light on networks of intellectual exchange that shaped early twentieth-century literary culture. By examining a corpus of ...read more
This project uses contemporary art as a lens to write the history of Antwerp, a port city with an arthistorical reputation, between 1980 and 2000. The study examines a corpus ...read more
The fall 2023 archival presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Antwerp (M HKA) is devoted to the triptych of exhibitions of contemporary art that was part of the ...read more
Using the lens of the cattle frontier in Madagascar in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this project explores the transformation of livestock production, pastoralist societies, imperial economies and animal ...read more
Inspired by the paradigmatic shifts of both transnational and global history, historians have, in recent years, begun to question the methodological nationalism and the exceptionalist discourses pervading the history of ...read more