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Research groups

Arabic

  • 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

  • GCLA - Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity

    The Ghent Centre for Late Antiquity (GCLA) is an interdisciplinary research centre that brings together the rich and variegated expertise on Late Antiquity present at Ghent University.

    Some fifty researchers from the departments of archaeology, history, linguistics and literature...read more

    • Arabic
    • Archaeology
    • Greek
    • History
    • Late Antiquity
    • Latin
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Oriental languages

  • RELICS - Researchers of European Literary Identities, Cosmopolitanism and the Schools

    The international and cooperative research group RELICS studies historical literatures and the dynamics that shape a common, European literary identity. We see this literary identity as particularly negotiated through languages that reached a cosmopolitan status due to fixed schooling systems (...read more

    • Arabic
    • Art
    • Canonisation
    • Danish
    • Dutch
    • Eastern European languages
    • English
    • Finish
    • French
    • Gender
    • German
    • Greek
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Latin
    • Literary studies
    • Norwegian
    • Oriental languages
    • Philosophy
    • Poetics
    • Portuguese
    • Religion
    • Rhetoric
    • Sociology of literature
    • Spanish
    • Swedish