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  • 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

  • DiaLing - Diachronic and Diatopic Linguistics

    The research group DiaLing clusters scholars who conduct research in the field of historical and diatopic linguistics, and gives as such visibility to these fields of study. The research conducted by DiaLing contributes to these disciplines in the following ways:

    (i) language description...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • African languages
    • Antiquity
    • Cartography
    • Cognitive linguistics
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Constructionalization
    • Construction grammar
    • Contemporary
    • Corpus construction
    • Diachronic linguistics
    • Diachrony
    • Dialect contact
    • Dialect grammar
    • Dialectology
    • Dialect syntax
    • Diatopic linguistics
    • Discourse
    • Dutch
    • Dynamic syntax
    • Eastern European languages
    • Endangered languages
    • English
    • Experimental syntax
    • Field research
    • Formal grammar
    • Formal syntax
    • French
    • Functional linguistics
    • Generative syntax
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Grammar
    • Grammaticalization
    • Greek
    • Historical grammar
    • Historical linguistics
    • Historical sociolinguistics
    • Historical syntax
    • History
    • Icelandic
    • Information structure
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language change
    • Language contact
    • Language death
    • Language maintenance
    • Language technology
    • Late Antiquity
    • Latin
    • Lexicography
    • Lexicon
    • Linguistics
    • Microvariation
    • Middle Ages
    • Morphology
    • Nanosyntax
    • Oriental languages
    • Portuguese
    • Pragmatics
    • Quantitative
    • Quantitative linguistics
    • Romanian
    • Russian
    • Semantics
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Spanish
    • Surveys
    • Swedish
    • Syntax
    • Syntax-discourse interface
    • Turkish
    • Typology
    • Word order

  • EQTIS - Empirical and Quantitative Translation and Interpreting Studies

    Our research activities are sub-divided in three research strands:

    • Corpus-Based Translation Studies
      We use parallel and comparable corpora to study language use and language variation in different translated genres, which are translated from different source
      • ...read more
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Quantitative
    • Spanish
    • Translation Studies

  • GLIMS - Ghent University Research Group on Linguistic Meaning & Structure

    The research conducted in GLIMS deals with ‘grammar’ in the broad sense of the term, that is to say (morpho)syntax and semantics, including both the interface with the lexicon (and lexical morphology) and with discourse. Most of our work is related to the following fields of interest: the...read more

    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Finish
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • Italian
    • Latin
    • Linguistics
    • Norwegian
    • Portuguese
    • Romanian
    • Spanish
    • Swedish

  • 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

  • HPIMSDH - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies

    HPIMSDH - Henri Pirenne Institute for Medieval Studies (History) is the group name for the researchers at Ghent University's Department of History involved in the study of medieval society and culture. Their research covers a broad range of interests, including diplomatics and...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • Africa
    • Arabic
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • History
    • Italian
    • Latin
    • Middle Ages
    • Middle East
    • Northern Europe
    • Southern Europe
    • Spanish
    • Western Europe

  • IEMH - Institute for Early Modern History

    The Institute for Early Modern History (IEMH) is a research alliance linking historians of the Early Modern Period from Ghent University with those from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel by regulary organizing scientific gatherings and acting as a forum for the Ph.D. students of Early...read more

    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • Quantitative
    • Spanish
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • KB45 - Kunst in België sinds 1945 / Art in Belgium since 1945

    KB45 (Kunst in België sinds 1945 / Art in Belgium since 1945) is a multidisciplinary research group established in 2019 at Ghent University within the Department of Architecture & Urban Planning on the one hand and the Department of Art History, Musicology and Theatre Studies on the other...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Art in Belgium
    • Belgium
    • Contemporary
    • Contemporary Art History
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Exhibition Histories
    • Field research
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Historiography
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Institutional Histories
    • South America
    • Western Europe

  • MULTIPLES - Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in Society

    MULTIPLES is concerned with the study of language and discourse as aspects of social life. It engages with the applied and educational dimensions of this field and does so with particular reference to contemporary multilingualism. We connect researchers with backgrounds in various linguistic...read more

    • Communication
    • Contemporary
    • Didactics
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • German
    • Hindi
    • Interculturalism
    • Interpreting
    • Italian
    • Language acquisition
    • Language and education
    • Linguistics
    • Media
    • Multilingualism
    • Russian
    • Sociolinguistics
    • Spanish
    • Translation Studies
    • Turkish

  • RCVC - Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap

    The research centre grew out of the research programme Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap (Comparative Science of Cultures), initiated by Prof. Dr. S. N. Balagangadhara at Ghent University, Belgium.

    This research programme was born in the 1980s, from a dissatisfaction with the then existing...read more

    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Asia
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • French
    • German
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Philosophy
    • Religion
    • Sanskrit
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe