The research within the UGent Contragram research group (now : GLIMS) focuses on the relation between grammatical structure and meaning in Dutch, French and English from a contrastive and corpus-based perspective.. Specific ...read more
The practise-based-research of Chokri Ben Chikha focuses on the critical potential of stereotypes as theatre signs. The research reflects on the strategies and tactics of stereotypes in relation to three series ...read more
In 2012 Frederik Le Roy obtained his doctoral degree at Ghent University with a dissertation entitled Verknoopte tijd, verfrommelde geschiedenis (Entangled Time, Crumpled History). Inspired by the philosophy of history of Walter ...read more
Until recently, the study of the mystical literature produced at the Augustinian canonry of Groenendaal (near Brussels), whose texts helped shape the mystical climate of the fourteenth-century Low Countries, has
Research into the role of the late medieval culture of Memoria in the strengthening of religious communal life in the southern Low Countries (1350-1550), with a special focus on communities ...read more
Research project, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), joining scholars from the universities of Groningen, Ghent, Amsterdam (VU), Utrecht, Tilburg, and Leuven and aiming at elaborating new ...read more
The PhD project studies the attractiveness of denoting oneself a lay Buddhist in contemporary urban Taiwan. It is based on an analysis of lay Buddhist self-construction within the context of social change ...read more
This PhD project studies animal symbolism as used in fantastic literature in eighteenth century China. It mainly focuses on human characteristics attributed to animals, and to the interrelation of animals ...read more
This research project aimed at studying the Roman business world by identifying the people involved in organizing trade and transport. To this purpose, a database comprising all Roman merchants and ...read more