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Research groups

Far East

  • EACP - East Asian Culture in Perspective: Identity, Historical Consciousness, Modernity

    The last decades of global experience have witnessed the domination of two apparently contradictory tendencies: on the one hand, a process of globalization and concentration of capital on a new, very abstract level far beyond immediate experience; on the other, the decentralization of production...read more

    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Far East
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Japanese
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • GCBS - Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies

    The Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies (GCBS), Belgium’s first academic centre for Buddhist studies, was established in 2007 at Ghent University within the Department of Languages and Cultures. Buddhological research in Ghent continues a long tradition of expertise tracing back to the...read more

    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • Contemporary
    • Far East
    • Field research
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Japanese
    • Language and text analysis
    • Middle Ages
    • Oriental languages
    • Religion
    • Sanskrit

  • HPIMS - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies

    The Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (HPIMS) brings together all scholars of Ghent University working on the Middle Ages or using data of Medieval Studies, regardless of their specific disciplines, sub-periods or research topics. The HPIMS members mainly come from the fields of...read more

    • 16th Century
    • Africa
    • Archaeology
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • Eastern European languages
    • English
    • Far East
    • Field research
    • French
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Greek
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Latin
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Middle East
    • Northern Europe
    • Portuguese
    • Quantitative
    • Religion
    • Southern Europe
    • Spanish
    • Surveys
    • Turkish
    • Western Europe