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Research groups

Ethics and morality

  • 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

  • CRCG - Centre for Research on Culture and Gender

    The Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, supports research and scholarly exchange on questions of identity, difference and diversity in a...read more

    • Africa
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Eastern Europe
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Middle East
    • North America
    • Religion
    • Western Europe

  • 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

  • PEPPER - Philosophy, Ethology, Politics and PERformance

    The research community PEPPER aims to host an international research network on the emerging interdisciplinary field of Philosophy, Ethology, Politics and Performance. It takes as a starting point the recent politico-philosophical turn in contemporary performance theory and practice, mainly...read more

    • Art
    • Ethics and morality
    • Interculturalism
    • Philosophy
    • Theatre and performing arts

  • RCVC - Research Centre Vergelijkende Cultuurwetenschap

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

    This research programme was born in the 1980s, from a dissatisfaction with the available descriptions of...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

  • 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