This project is a collaborative effort of the Ancient History research group, the Royal Library of Belgium, and the Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities. It aims to build a database of ...read more
This FWO senior research project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in ...read more
By the end of the ninth century CE, vernacular languages had definitively replaced Latin in everyday oral interactions throughout the Carolingian world. However, Latin remained by and large dominant in ...read more
Neslihan Dogan obtained a Master in History (Ghent University, 2017). After her Master's degree she was not quite ready to say goodbye to the University of Ghent, so she did ...read more
Translations of the works of the American-born author Gertrude Stein (1874–1946) have been particularly abundant in the German speaking countries. From the 1970s to the early 2000s, key figures of ...read more
Emerging from a recognition of the gap between ecological experience and its representation, this research proposes the development of an embodied artistic language capable of engaging with this divide. My ...read more
This five-year project proposes an innovative study of a neglected issue in religious studies: the production of comparative knowledge of Judaism in the early academic study of religion. In late ...read more
This dissertation investigates the significance, characteristics, evolution, and hermeneutics of the doctrine of “non-self” (Skt. anātman; Ch. wuwo 無我) in Ming-dynasty Buddhism, with a focus on the deeply influential monk ...read more
This project proposes to investigate a critical juncture in the formation of psychoanalytic theory. Its aim is to trace the Kantian sources of Sigmund Freud's use of the notion of ...read more
Friendship remains a surprisingly understudied topic, particularly in non-Western contexts, even less so concerning the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Furthermore, when investigated, there has been little attention ...read more