As India and Europe are becoming increasingly important to each other as economic, political, and strategic partners, sensitive issues arise in their encounters. Today, it is crucial to gain insight ...read more
Cancer is currently the leading cause of death in Belgium, accounting for ca. 27.000 yearly deaths. Despite an abundance of medical research, the history of cancer (victims) is basically unwritten. ...read more
Forgeries in the styles of old and modern painters have recently caused much consternation. Although scientific methods to analyze cultural heritage are being developed rapidly, research in the field of ...read more
Ancient Greece witnessed significant socio-political shifts from the Classical to the Roman period, shaping both regional history and societal dynamics in the populations. Despite the recently emerging view of low ...read more
My research project aims to trace the social histories of the Bhagavad Gītā from the centuries just prior to colonialism in North India to the 18th and the 19th centuries. ...read more
The project sets out to write a history of knowledge that takes the interaction between disciplines as its primary subject. The project’s historical framework is the postformative period, 1200-1800 CE, ...read more
Soon after the release of ChatGPT, the state of the art of generative AI in lexicography was surveyed (cf. de Schryver 2023). If one is to believe that survey, as ...read more
This project aims to describe and analyze the use of modal expressions (such as can, must, and maybe) in Swahili, focusing on variation and change across time and space. Spoken ...read more
Voices of Brussels is an Internationalisation at Home initiative organized at Ghent University. The project brings together students from the Department of Languages and Cultures and other humanities disciplines for ...read more