Roman cities relied on privileged guilds to function. Craftsmen guilds (collegia fabri) took pride of place but remain much debated. We study their spread, membership, organization, influence and impact on ...read more
In South Africa, the apartheid government masked blunt racial oppression as “separate development” and maintained a policy of terror, leading to a significant number of traumatic situations. The South Africa ...read more
Choreographies of Precariousness focuses on contemporary dancers' socio-economical position and its influence on their production processes. Within this frame will be discussed to what extent one may speak of precariousness ...read more
PhD in Arts project, research is conducted within the research group S:PAM (Studies in Performing Arts & Media) and within the University College Ghent - Faculty of Fine Arts (KASK). ...read more
Timing is a crucial aspect of meaningful musical communication. In order to achieve the intended musical expression, musicians need to control their movements such that time-critical musical structures can be ...read more
In the first half of the seventeenth century natural philosophers looking for alternatives to the then dominant Aristotelian physics often took simple material objects and contrivances to offer important lessons ...read more
This project will systematically relate scripting of rituals of conflict, reconciliation and social integration to societal developments in the Central Medieval West (tenth-twelfth centuries). So far, scholarship has been determined ...read more
This project focuses on the public behavior of the secular and ecclesiastical elites of the later tenth to early twelfth centuries to investigate the competitive aspects of the Peace of ...read more
This project will offer the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of the use of speech acts, ritual acts and spatial arrangements in the construction of episcopal authority in the ‘long ...read more