The main research question of the study is: How and why do some European citizens generate a populist and Islamophobist discourse to express their discontent with the current social, economic ...read more
Modern Western psychology was first introduced to China in the 1880s. The circulation of psychology in the late Qing dynasty intertwined with religion, educational reform, and historiography, set the stage ...read more
This research project reads the experimental work of Kathy Acker with queer theory. Acker's oeuvre is considered to be one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. Scholarly ...read more
“Friend” or “Infernal Monster”? Comic and Tragic Representations of the Ottomans in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Theatre aims to understand dramatizations of Turks and ‘Selfs’ in the Venetian Republic, a perfect case ...read more
Ecological issues occupy an ever-growing place in contemporary literature. I intend to examine how francophone novels and novellas by Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean islands authors address the environmental problems ...read more
For many years there have been discussions about how exactly Immanuel Kant’s categories of quantity should be derived from the quantitative forms of judgment. This research proposal aims to connect ...read more
During the French Enlightenment, meteorology developed dynamically because the boundaries of what weather knowledge was and how it should be developed were not clearly defined. To better understand how weather ...read more
Jan Vercruysse kan beschouwd worden als een tentoonstellingskunstenaar. Hij hechtte uitzonderlijk veel belang aan de presentatie van zijn werk en nam zelf de rol van curator op zich, waarbij hij ...read more
Stad Oostende investeert de komende vijf jaar in het instrument 'DISCO' van de Universiteit Gent om de Oostendse scholen te ondersteunen met de steeds meer uiteenlopende leerlingen. Het voorkomen van ...read more
Stad Sint Niklaas investeert de komende drie jaar in het instrument 'DISCO' van de Universiteit Gent om de Sint Niklase scholen te ondersteunen met de steeds meer uiteenlopende leerlingen. Het voorkomen van ...read more