In 1976 the Oxford ethologist Richard Dawkins published a book that would become one of the most popular and most influential science books of the 20th century: The Selfish Gene. ...read more
Africa has been a scientific object in its own right for European bureaucracies since the eighteenth century. Over the course of the nineteenth century, explorers, mapmakers, natural history collectors and ...read more
The UGent Corpusfinder database attempts to provide an overview of existing corpora for the languages taught at the Department of Linguistics, Ghent University. The database was released for the university ...read more
Contragram's present six year research project focuses on the relation between grammatical structure and meaning in Dutch, French and English from a contrastive and corpus-based perspective. Specific areas of interest ...read more
Cancer is a major killer. In Belgium, cancer is currently responsible for a third of all deaths and the second most important cause of death. Despite its prominent position in ...read more
This project aims to investigate China's relational power and critique the so-called 'China's sharp power’ in China's diplomacy. This research will theorise the ‘relational power’ derived from pluralistically imagined ‘Chineseness’. ...read more
We live in a world that seems to have largely lost faith in politics and in the dialectic of history . While experienced differently depending on geographical location and socio-political ...read more