The aim of this project is to strengthen the field of Indian Studies at UGent by integrating the study of Indian languages and religions with archaeological research in the Gangetic Plains and ...read more
This project aims to reveal the connections between linguistic patterns and text-historical developments in a corpus of metrical paratexts in Byzantine manuscripts, situating these connections in the historical context of ...read more
Today’s ~550 Bantu languages constitute Africa’s largest family. The spread of Bantu speech communities from the Nigeria-Cameroon border area towards Eastern and Southern Africa, which is thought to have started ...read more
Europeans introduced the print culture to other continents. However, the Yoruba people in Nigeria used specific terms to describe modernity before the arrival of the Europeans. There is no study ...read more
Het Steunpunt Centrale Toetsen in Onderwijs zet in op de ontwikkeling van rijke toetsen voor wiskunde en Nederlands in functie van onderwijsontwikkeling. Het Steunpunt bestaat uit een consortium van alle ...read more
This project intends to investigate the contentious relation between German idealism and life sciences. It pays, on the one hand, major philosophical attention to how German idealistic philosophy takes up the concepts ...read more
The Deng Jue Si 等覺寺 (Deng Jue Temple) is the most important temple in the Menghua area (Yunnan Province) in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It was first built in the ...read more
This research strives to overcome scientific knowledge gaps related to Sun Yat-sen’s life, as well as the gaps surrounding the concepts that are crucial in understanding his persona: Leninism, Christianity, ...read more
Until now, the study of travel writing has mostly focused on the visual ‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding neglect of non-visual sensations, this project ...read more
This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – ...read more