The status of the present-day Belgian notariat is currently being questioned by politicians, and its prominent social position in the recording and authentication of private transactions is at stake. This ...read more
This research project aims to enhance the traditional methodologies of textual analysis by leveraging the potential of digital methodologies to study 210 unpublished cuneiform tablets from the Ur III period ...read more
This research proposes to investigate the characteristically Chinese concept of fate (ming) in terms of spiritual-psychological agency. Fate has always played a pervasive role in ancient Chinese thought and folk religion. However, fate ...read more
The early twentieth century saw the emergence of an avant-garde culture, which marked a turning point in the literary history of Spain. Until recently, the dominant approach to Spanish vanguard ...read more
Histories of Hindi literature, including Acharya Shukla’s seminal work Hindi Sāhitya kā Itihās (1929), refer to Apabhraṃśa as the forerunner of India’s official language and its literature. Nevertheless, only a ...read more
KBR's Digital Research Lab serves to facilitate text and data mining research on KBR’s diverse, multilingual digitised and born-digital collections. This includes supporting the digital access of textual sources, stimulating ...read more
The history of kubandwa – a complex of therapeutic associations in Great Lakes Africa – since 1500 is intimately linked to gendered social-economic innovation and configurations of (supra)lineage authority. An ...read more
The ArcheOs research laboratory for biological anthropology at Ghent University was established in 2020 within the Department of Archaeology. It aims to study the health, kinship, lifestyle and mobility of ...read more
In this project, we explore the ways in which emotions and interpersonal interactions impact foreign language students’ learning experiences in both in-person and online English classes.
Following the peak of the #MeToo movement, 2018 saw a remarkable surge in popular publications on the topic of women’s anger. These publications might reflect a shift in the popular ...read more