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
What is the potential of not-understanding (Nichtverstehen) for a critique of culture and subversive aesthetic strategies? How do forms of situational representation actualize this potential? These questions are addressed by ...read more
The worlds of theatre is regarded the start with the ritual ceremony similar to a dialogue with God. Early theatre tries to enter into a relationship with God, during the ...read more
This research seeks to gain a better historical understanding of the coexistence of communal land systems with processes of global land commodification through which land access and control is standardized ...read more
Several hundred examples of the writings of Jacob of Serugh (d. 521) are preserved in the original Syriac language, but he was equally popular among other confessional communities of the Christian ...read more
The project focuses on the postwar literary radio play in the Low Countries (Flanders and the Netherlands), a clearly defined region where the literary radio play has constantly been kept ...read more
The Khoisan of Southern Africa have faced violent dispossession and assimilation alongside several others into the racial group ‘coloured’ during colonialism and apartheid. Many today no longer consider the Khoisan ...read more
This project attempts to offer a philosophical critique of vitalism from the standpoints of both the history of science and the logic of science (the logic of science endorses logical ...read more
My research deals with the relation between the languages Kikongo and Lingala and the way the opposition between them has been activated throughout the history of the Congolese capital (1950s-present ...read more