PhiSci develops a novel framework to understand how philology – the historical study of text and language – once reigned as ‘queen of the sciences.’ This project pioneers a new ...read more
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates ...read more
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates ...read more
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates ...read more
People are equal before the law. This principle is strongly embedded in the judicial doctrine of the Enlightenment, and also in the liberal Belgian constitution. In practice, however, the justice ...read more
Belgium was one of the most devastated and looted countries at the end of the First World War. Yet the interwar period started with the optimistic notion of progress that ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
Sheldon Pollock’s influential theories on the cosmopolitan and ‘secular’ nature of Sanskrit literature and the vernacularisation of regional Indian literatures as top-down processes which originate in royal courts do not ...read more
LOKSTAT + is an extension of LOKSTAT, the database of local statistics in Belgium (1800- 1970). LOKSTAT (developed at UGent) is a digital database of demographic, socio-economic and political-institutional statistics, ...read more
This project aims at the operationalization of the legacy data collection of the Thorikos Archaeological Research Project (1960 - present), especially those of the ancient Theatre, within the innovative iDig ...read more