The proposed research seeks to provide an analysis of how parents reproduce and challenge in everyday practice and discourse the norms and moralities of monogamy and the nuclear family. ...read more
Reflection on the familiar and the foreign constitutes an important element of Nooteboom’s work. His novels are characterized by references to other literary works, frequently in other languages and by ...read more
This project contains the writing of a monography for which Katharina Pewny has been awarded with a research sabbatical by the Flemish Research Funds (FWO, in the academic year 2016/17). ...read more
Recently, the Department of Languages and Cultures with the Centre for Buddhist Studies at Ghent University has joined a large multidisciplinary project on East Asian religions (for a short abstract, ...read more
In 2016-2018, we conducted the first policy-oriented research into intersex / Differences of Sex Development (DSD) in Flanders and Belgium, which consisted of two parts.
A Web-Based Tool for Shared Decision Making in DSD. The birth of a child with DSD is anxiety-provoking. Stressors associated with ascertaining a DSD include weathering drawn-out diagnostic testing periods, ...read more
This project studies the relation between early-nineteenth-century British periodicals and the rise of the credit economy. It argues that leading contemporaneous periodicals fostered a cultural acceptance of the new economic ...read more