Faculty of Arts and Philosophy - Research Portal

Research groups

Gender

  • 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

  • Revers - Belgian Fashion Research Network

    Revers is a Belgian interdisciplinary network for research in fashion, textiles, and dress. Its aim is to connect and unite Belgian-based researchers, students...read more

    • Art
    • Gender
    • History
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Theatre and performing arts

  • 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

    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 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

  • ThIS - The Inside Story. Art & Interior 1750-1950

    The Inside Story: Art & Interior 1750-1950 (ThIS) investigates art as related to architecture and the interior, between c. 1750 and 1950. It is an interdisciplinary research team, initiated in 2016 by Marjan Sterckx, between Ghent University and Vrije Universiteit Brussel,...read more

    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Architecture
    • Art
    • Art collections
    • Art history
    • Art objects
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Design history
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interior design
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe