This project investigates the intellectual exchanges of the early Palaiologan period by analysing Byzantine book epigrams preserved in manuscripts dated ca. 1280–1350, treating paratexts as a key means of tracing patterns ...read more
This project explores how official apologies from governments - especially for colonial-era atrocities shape and reflect historical narratives. It focuses on the Netherlands’ apologies (or lack thereof) for past wrongs ...read more
This project starts from two major lacunae in research. Despite substantial progress in the study of premodern material culture, historians have failed to add a spatial dimension to their knowledge ...read more
In the last several years, fantastic manuscript finds have surfaced opening new windows into the scholarly study of the development of Buddhist literature. Gandhara Corpora represents a multifaceted, holistic approach ...read more
"New Horizons in Arabic and Islamic Studies” is an innovative project at Ghent University aimed at pioneering new areas of research within the fields of Arabic and Islamic studies. This ...read more
The present study aims to explore dimensions of bilingual emotionality and deception via a psycholinguistic, multimodal approach, by assessing the verbal and non-verbal performance of bilingual speakers of Dutch and English. ...read more
This research delves into the reception of aesthetic disinterestedness in China from 1870 to 1949, analyzing how this concept was interpreted within Chinese intellectual circles. By examining the diverse responses—ranging from ...read more
Formulaic texts constitute a core interest of researchers working at UGent. Within the Greek section, there are two major ongoing research projects about such genres, an ERC-project about ‘everyday’ texts ...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
Reading Mentors is an empirical reader-response study that explores how young(er) readers interpret mentoring relationships in speculative Young Adult literature. Participation involves a short online survey and an optional interview. ...read more