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Research groups

Antiquity

  • 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

  • CLIV - Centrum voor Literatuur in vertaling

    The Alliance Research Centre for Literature in Translation (Centrum voor Literatuur in Vertaling, CLIV) was founded by Ghent University and the VUB in 2014, when two research groups on literary translation joined forces: the Ghent University/University College Ghent Association research...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Interculturality
    • Intermediality
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Literary studies
    • Middle Ages
    • Multilingualism
    • Surveys
    • Translation
    • Translation Studies
    • Translation studies

  • 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

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    • 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
    • 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

  • 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

  • RSRC - Roman Society Research Centre

    The RSRC is an joint research center of Ghent University and the Free University of Brussels. Our aim is to promote studies in the history of the Roman World in all its various aspects. We embrace contributions in the field of economic, social, political, cultural and mentality history from the...read more

    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Asia
    • Central Europe
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Greek
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Latin
    • Middle East
    • Southern Europe
    • Western Europe

  • SANGH - South Asia Network Ghent

    The interdisciplinary research group South Asia Network Ghent, in short Sangh (Sanskrit/Hindi meaning “community”), aims to offer a platform where UGent researchers working on South Asia meet and interact. The members of Sangh focus on varied aspects of South Asian...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • Hindi
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Linguistics
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Middle Ages
    • Music
    • Oriental languages
    • Philosophy
    • Prehistory (Stone Age)
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Religion
    • Sanskrit
    • Surveys
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Translation Studies

  • THALIA - Interplay of Theatre, Literature & Media in Performance

    In myth, the ancient muse Thalia is a worshipper of Dionysos and therefore closely related to theatrical festivities. Her name resembles the etymological origin of both 'theatre' and 'theory' (theoreia). The joint research group THALIA (UGent/VUB) aims at collective, intellectual...read more

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    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Choreography
    • Contemporary
    • Dramaturgy
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • Gender
    • German
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Intermedial theatre
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Northern Europe
    • Performance studies
    • Performativity
    • Southern Europe
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Theatre history
    • Western Europe