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The heiress. Women, property and economics, 1780-1900

2023

The heiress is an overlooked though recurring and compelling figure in a wide range of novels by British authors between 1780 and 1900. By focusing on the heiress, this project ...read more
18e eeuw
19e eeuw
Engels
Literatuurwetenschap
West-Europa
In looking back, becoming modern. Shifting discourses on Latin renaissance in the French and Italian literary fields, 1870-1915

2023

When we think about the Renaissance, we mainly remember the enticing legacy of its artworks. Yet, the myth of Renaissance as a historical period of ‘rebirth’ has also assumed symbolic ...read more
19e eeuw
20e eeuw
Comparatief
Cosmopolitanism
European Identity
Frans
Geschiedenis
Italiaans
Literatuurwetenschap
Nationalism
Taal- en tekstanalyse
West-Europa
Zuid-Europa
Imminent art. Articulation of its disruptive emancipatory potential on the basis of a negative ontological account

2023

Most philosophical approaches to the political value of art only consider art in general, as an abstract
concept. New and experimental art, of which the character and purpose are ...read more
20e eeuw
Hedendaags
Wijsbegeerte en filosofie
The position and role of the institutional dramaturg. An interdisciplinary analysis of institutional dramaturgy in Flemish and Dutch city-theatres

2023

This research uses both sociological methodologies and the frameworks of theatre studies and literary analysis to come to a critical analysis of the current position and role of an institutional ...read more
België
Engels
Hedendaags
Literatuurwetenschap
Nederlands
Theater- en podiumkunsten
West-Europa
Divergence and convergence in the history of the Shona languages. Contact, migration, and change in a subgroup of Southern African Bantu

2023

The Shona languages of Southern Africa form a large, closely-related and relatively well-studied group of Bantu languages. Despite a wealth of synchronic data on these language varieties, the history of ...read more
Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Bantu
Bantu comparative linguistics
Bantu historical linguistics
Bantu linguistics
Botswana
Comparatief
Contact linguistics
Malawi
Mozambique
Southern Africa
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Veldonderzoek
Zimbabwe
The evolution and significance of Brahma in medieval Chinese buddhism

2023

The proposed project deals with the imagery of Brahma in Chinese Buddhism. As one of the Buddhist deities, Brahma appears in a wealth of artwork in different regions of Asia. ...read more
Azië
Chinees
Comparatief
Engels
Geschiedenis
Iconografie en beeldanalyse
Kunst
Middeleeuwen
Religie
Veldonderzoek
Digital native dictionaries (DNDs). A proposal for an online dictionary prototype focusing on combinations of words (COWs) for Italian learners as second or foreign language (L2/FL)

2023

Our objective is to investigate how learners of Italian as a second and/or as a foreign language use dictionaries to look for new meanings. To do so, we aim to ...read more
Eye-tracking
Hedendaags
Italiaans
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie
Vertaalkunde
The hub for bike studies

2023

The Hub for Bike Studies, a joint initiative of Ghent University and Abertay University, is a gathering space for those interested in bikes and cycling. Co-Directeurs Sportifs are Andrew ...read more
Towards a socio-cognitive account of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting

2023

The aim of the project is to contribute to a novel model of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting (DI) by offering an analysis in terms of ‘cognition for interaction’ (Levinson 2015). ...read more
Communicatie
Taalkunde
Taaltechnologie
Vertaalkunde
Stylometry for aurality in medieval Anglo-Latin hagiography (900–1150). Performance, community and musicality

2023

This project applies the computational analysis of style to aural features of medieval Anglo-Latin hagiography (900-1150). Although hagiographies possessed a sermonic quality, had a didactic function and were ceremonially recited, the reading ...read more
Geschiedenis
Latijn
Literatuurwetenschap
Middeleeuwen
Religie
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taaltechnologie
West-Europa