The impact of hunter-gatherers on the environment has been a controversial topic since at least the 1960’s. In Northwestern-Europe it is generally assumed that humans only started influencing their environment ...read more
Cities such as Paris, Bruges, Ghent and Florence experienced remarkable growth from the High Middle Ages onwards. Recent scholarship indicates that this economic complexity was primarily driven by local and ...read more
The Digo subgroup are tone of the groups in the Mijikenda community in Kenya. They primarily inhabit the southern coast and interior regions of Kwale, Kenya. The Digo people possess a ...read more
This project aims to describe and analyze the use of modal expressions (such as can, must, and maybe) in Swahili, focusing on variation and change across time and space. Spoken ...read more
This doctoral research aims to reconceptualize the design and application of online Chinese-English specialized dictionaries for learners of English for Specific Purposes (ESP), with a particular focus on writing support. ...read more
Over time and space, languages can change fundamentally in their structure (morphosyntax). A key example of such variation is the change between analytic and synthetic morphosyntax. Such variation is clearly ...read more
ATLAM is an interdisciplinary PhD-project (2023-2027) conducted at Ghent University within the faculties of Arts & Humanities and Sociology. The researchers are affiliated to CESSMIR, TRACE and MULTIPLES.
In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more
The project 'Space for Philippe Van Snick. Physical and Digital Space for the Conservation and Public Disclosure of the archives of Philippe Van Snick (1968-1990)' is a pilot project of ...read more
This research focuses on a selection of Marcel Broodthaers' artworks, photographs, and texts created between 1957 and 1970—from the moment he realized his first photographs of Brussels to the year ...read more