Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Research Portal

Research groups

  • 20cc - Twentieth-Century Crossroads

    20cc aims to bring together and stimulate research on twentieth-century literatures, especially modernist literatures and cultures, in different language traditions. It focuses on three intersecting research strands: (1) media and the masses (including periodicals, radio, film, and comics); (2)...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Literary studies
    • Media

  • Afrikaans - Ghent Centre for Afrikaans and the Study of South Africa

    The aim of the Ghent centre for Afrikaans and the study of South Africa is to coordinate the research activities with regard to linguistics and literature of the Afrikaans language. It brings together all researchers of the faculty of Arts and Philosophy of the Ghent University with an interest...read more

    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Quantitative
    • Sign language
    • Surveys
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Western Europe

  • Ancient History

    This research group gathers the researchers of the History Department focusing on the history of the Greco-Roman World, including its relations with other states, empires and cultures. The main focus of the research unit is the Roman World sensu largo, i.e. including the eastern (Greek...read more

    • History
    • Linguistics

  • ARCHAEO - Archaeology

    The research group Archaeology is a very active player in scientific research, which is driven by various internal research units. The main five units are (1) Pre- and Protohistoric Archaeology of NW Europe, (2) Mediterranean Archaeology, (3) Historical Archaeology of NW Europe, (4) Near Eastern...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Middle East
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Religion
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • BantUGent - UGent Centre for Bantu Studies

    A transdisciplinary approach to the past and present of Bantu languages, Bantu speech communities and their (im)material worlds, both in Africa and in the diaspora. The research starts from the data-driven study of language and/or material culture and is combined — whenever and wherever possible...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Archaeology
    • Art
    • Art history
    • Bantu linguistics
    • Comparative
    • Comparative linguistics
    • Contemporary
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Dialectology
    • Economic anthropology
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Historical anthropology
    • Historical linguistics
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language documentation and description
    • Language technology
    • Lexicography
    • Linguistics
    • Material culture studies
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys
    • Transdisciplinary studies

  • BIG - Bioethics Institute Ghent

    The Bioethics Institute Ghent (BIG) at Ghent University is based at the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy and is a subdivision of the Department of Philosophy and Moral Sciences. It serves as a meeting point for academics teaching and conducting research on bioethical issues at any Ghent...read more

    • Ethics and morality
    • Philosophy

  • BOCULT - Centre for Research on Body Cultures in Motion

    Since the late 1980s the ‘body’ is a central object of research in cultural studies. In the Department of Languages and Cultures several researchers are dealing with questions related to “performing bodies”. The concept of performing bodies next to ‘figurations’ focuses on historical and...read more

    • African languages
    • Arabic
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Chinese
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • French
    • Gender
    • German
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Japanese
    • Language and text analysis
    • Oriental languages
    • Philosophy
    • Religion
    • Theatre and performing arts

  • CARAM - Centre for Anthropological Research on Affect and Materiality

    CARAM - meaning ‘generosity’ (karam) in Arabic - brings together researchers in the humanities and social sciences who work in the fields of materiality, affect, the body, religion and/or ethnicity. Operating from the perspective of critical area studies and versed in anthropological theory,...read more

  • CCROC - Critical and Comparative Research on Culture

    The inter-faculty research cluster Critical and Comparative Research On Culture (CCROC) brings together a group of researchers from different disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, who share a focus on questions about culture and the cultural. They approach a range of such...read more

    • Africa
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Eastern Europe
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Literary studies
    • Religion
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe

  • CEL19 - Centre for the Study of 19th-Century Literature

    The research group Centre for the Study of 19th-Century Literature (CEL19) brings together scholars from different sections of the Department of Literary Studies who are working on nineteenth-century literature. Its aim is to foster collaborations in comparative research across linguistic and...read more

    • 19th Century
    • History
    • Literary studies
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