In the civitas Menapiorum (northern France, Belgium and the SW part of the Netherlands), a significant number of epigraphic (e.g. salinatores-inscriptions, Nehalennia-altars) and archaeological sources point to the presence of ...read more
Causal selection refers to the common practice of singling out one cause among all known causes of some event, and calling it "the" cause. Suppose that a fire breaks ...read more
Studying the phenotypic evolution of organisms in terms of populations of genes and genotypes, the Modern Synthesis (MS) conceptualizes biological evolution in terms of 'inter-organismal' interactions among genes sitting in ...read more
he educational innovation project Omeka-FLWI aims to implement the web publication platform Omeka S(emantic) in the teaching practices at Ghent University’s Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. Omeka S offers teachers ...read more
In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more
This research project aims to reassess historiographical debates on shifting power relations in rural communities during the transition period 1750-1900, when village communities were gradually incorporated into modern society in ...read more
This empirical research aims to explore the process of negotiating queer aesthetics while challenging hegemonic structures in contemporary Indian fashion. Contemporary representations of the predominant notions of manliness have defined ...read more
The aim of this project is to explore trans poetry as a site for and form of “trans arts of survival” (Hil Malatino). I am interested in “how [trans people] ...read more
The Second World War in Belgium is remembered personally and locally, in different and often contrasting ways. Internationally, the Belgian memory landscape has therefore been pointed out as a unique ...read more
One of the foundational conventions of the operatic genre – that a character is represented by a single performer – is occasionally broken in operas composed today. To understand this ...read more