This project focuses on how the cultural imagination of the loop is increasingly shaping fictional narratives in literature, film, TV series, and video games, through works that center on or ...read more
The project aims to investigate the multimodal features of specialized discourse in online environments, focusing specifically on social media content creation in Italian. Multimodality, the use of multiple semiotic resources ...read more
For governments across the world today, ensuring population well-being is one of their core tasks. This project - a collaborative initiative between the universities of Ghent, Stellenbosch, and the Western ...read more
Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic ...read more
This project aims to provide an integrated account of in situ indirect questions in Hexagonal French (e.g. J’sais même pas j’suis sensé réviser quoi ‘I don’t even know I’m supposed ...read more
This project focuses on the research of provenance and meaning of the religious objects featuring Japanese deities (kami 神 and buddhas 仏) and present in the museum and private collections ...read more
For decades, Palestinian women's movements have moved and continue to move in the field of tension of a double resistance - characterised by the struggle against occupation and the challenges ...read more
How to study contemporary Islam and Muslim societies? Studies of contemporary Islam and Muslim societies do not follow one particular method. It is often said that this field of research ...read more
This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more