Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Iran has been engaged in shaping its cultural identity and negotiating its position in the international cultural context. Notwithstanding its rather ...read more
Choreographies of Precariousness focuses on contemporary dancers' socio-economical position and its influence on their production processes. Within this frame will be discussed to what extent one may speak of precariousness ...read more
Throughout the long nineteenth century Belgium was home to a remarkably large number of private art collections. Many of those were visited by an interested local and international public and ...read more
The Ghent Database of Roman Guilds(+) will provide a tool for research into institutions for collective actions by professional groups. It will be: (1) a heuristic tool to find data on ...read more
When it comes to L2 vocabulary learning, both semantic elaboration, i.e. the increased attention to word meaning, and structural elaboration, i.e. the enhanced attention to word form, are important. However, ...read more
As previous studies have shown, in order to overcome the language barriers and enable the communication between general practitioners and migrant patients, the employment of professional community interpreters in the ...read more
It is the project's aim to underscore the fundamental and sometimes problematic role of news discourse in political conflicts, where it shapes perceptions, creates identities and influences attitudes. In particular, ...read more
This PhD project, based at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Program for Slavic and East European Studies at Ghent University, examines the Kosova students’ movements between 1968 and 1999. ...read more
Before the International Copyright Act of 1891 was passed, the American literary marketplace was saturated with unauthorized reprints of British texts. Neither British nor American authors had any legal claim ...read more
This project will systematically relate scripting of rituals of conflict, reconciliation and social integration to societal developments in the Central Medieval West (tenth-twelfth centuries). So far, scholarship has been determined ...read more