Research project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), joining scholars from the universities of Groningen, Ghent, Amsterdam (VU), Utrecht, Tilburg, and Leuven and aiming at elaborating new ...read more
The PhD project studies the attractiveness of denoting oneself a lay Buddhist in contemporary urban Taiwan. It is based on an analysis of lay Buddhist self-construction within the context of social change ...read more
This PhD project studies animal symbolism as used in fantastic literature in eighteenth century China. It mainly focuses on human characteristics attributed to animals, and to the interrelation of animals ...read more
This research project aimed at studying the Roman business world by identifying the people involved in organizing trade and transport. To this purpose, a database comprising all Roman merchants and ...read more
Silvia Defrance studied Animationfilm at the School of Arts in Ghent / KASK where she graduated as a Master in the Audiovisual Arts and later, during 2012, she obtained a ...read more
In this project, we examined whether urban domestic service functioned as a diffusion channel for fertility decline in Flanders, 1830-1930. Servants’ employers usually belonged to the upper and middle classes, ...read more
The involvement of rural populations in market activities in the past is still debated. Were people lured into the market by the prospect of a better lifestyle, or pushed into ...read more
Joint PhD in the arts by David Huycke (PHL, dep. Beeldende Kunst, Universiteit Hasselt en K.U.Leuven, Kunstwetenschap/IvOK): The metamorphic ornament/ Re_thinking granulation.Een onderzoek naar de transformatiemogelijkheden van granulatie naar ...read more
Research into the nature of Indian society generally starts from the assumption that a caste hierarchy exists, that it is guided by an ideological framework or religious texts,