Het onderzoek bestaat uit een schriftelijk en mondeling rapport met advies en tips over 5 digitale tools die geïntegreerd kunnen worden in het nieuwe online platform van Stad Gent en ...read more
This dissertation investigates the interplay between theatricality and religious representation in Jean Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart'sCérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737). As a richly illustrated collection of ...read more
Discourses on ageing women are changing from predominantly negative to more positive representations, but this is mainly true for people who fit the narrowly defined narratives of what is considered ...read more
Throughout history, artists have been captivated by the characters of classical mythology. As the youngest of the arts, one of the most lucrative contemporary entertainment industries and an influential socio-cultural ...read more
This project is aimed at the investigation of horizontal links in two clusters of constructions featuring the auxiliarized Dutch verbs komen ‘to come’ and krijgen ‘to get, receive’. Horizontal links, ...read more
This research project concerns the political role and impact of assassination in the Late Roman Empire. The killing of human beings, and above all the judgement of its legitimacy, is ...read more
Almost half a century ago, Simone de Beauvoir denounced what she called the ‘conspiracy of silence’ in public and scholarly debates about women growing older. Little has changed since then. ...read more
Responding to a number of urgent problems noted in the area of covid-19 contact tracing (reluctance to give information, lack of care orientation, script-dominated talk), this project analyses and seeks ...read more
The history of kubandwa – a complex of therapeutic associations in Great Lakes Africa – since 1500 is intimately linked to gendered social-economic innovation and configurations of (supra)lineage authority. An ...read more
Linguistic diversity is disappearing (almost) as fast as biological diversity: very soon, we may no longer be able to know the sounds and structures of many of the world's languages. ...read more