In a majority of food studies, visual arts are used as documentary evidence for the analysis of culinary history. Although these valuable studies show a lot of scientific interest in the ...read more
This dissertation scrutinizes public legal art in the context of nineteenth-century Belgium. More specifically, it considers how government as well as political, legal, and administrative actors generated and used art ...read more
Daniele Dibello works on a doctoral project concerning the Venetian state formation in the mainland between the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. To estimate the city-state experience's weight on the broader ...read more
The thesis addresses the way in which Philostratos, writing in the early third century C.E., fashions a new version of the Trojan War in the central part of his dialogue, ...read more
The research goal of this doctoral dissertation is to unpack the social mechanisms and study the systemic pressures in the orientation process of Newly Arrived Migrant Students (NAMS) in Flemish ...read more
CONGOCONNECT (2015-2019) is a network project funded by the BRAIN program of the Belgian Federal Ministry of Science. It consists in a collaboration between three partner institutions : Ghent University, the ...read more
There is robust evidence that preschool participation yields beneficial effects on cognitive, social and emotional development, and academic achievements later on. These effects are particularly important for children in poverty ...read more
In this dissertation, I combine periodical theory and political theory, with insights from feminist criticism into the notion of deliberative democracy, to explore the transnational collaborative work and professional networks ...read more
The international research group ‘Transnational dynamics of social reform, 1840-1940’ consists of researchers from seven countries aims at opening new perspectives on the history of social reform and reform activism ...read more