The period 1700-1840 witnessed the flowering of a new ‘atmospheric tides’ science. The basic assumption of this science was that the moon and the sun not only generate significant tidal ...read more
The research group KB45 (Kunst in België sinds 1945 / Art in Belgium since 1945) aims to map postwar development of living art in Belgium in the post-war era from a ...read more
In 2020 the archives of Plus-Kern Gallery (exhibition history, artists' correspondence, press clippings, administration) have been bequeathed to Ghent University by Jenny Van Driessche.
In collaboration with the staff of the Ghent ...read more
We conducted two rounds of focus group interviews with instructors from Belgium, Austria, Finland, Sweden, Jordan, Israel, Spain and the US on how the current crisis has an impact on ...read more
Over the past decades, the theatrical landscape of Brussels has made a move towards reflecting its multicultural everyday reality on stage. Today's multilingual productions pose a heightened challenge to the ...read more
This research focuses on the development of refugee posttrauma care in the field of transcultural psychology and applied theatre in western host societies. With respect to refugee posttrauma care, both ...read more
Almost half a century ago, Simone de Beauvoir denounced what she called the ‘conspiracy of silence’ in public and scholarly debates about women growing older. Little has changed since then. ...read more
This project concerns the development of a historical dialect database of the Flemish dialects for studying dialect syntax, based on the Reeks Nederlandse Dialectatlassen (RND). The concerned dataset is part ...read more
The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more