This project aims to recover Gothic texts authored by Scottish and Irish female writers in the Romantic Period (1780-1830). It examines how these authors engage with questions of national and cultural ...read more
Sinds de tweede helft van 2019 werd er door de Vlaamse Regering een expertenpanel samengesteld om uitgebreid onderzoek te doen naar interlandelijke adoptie in Vlaanderen. Dit panel heeft in 2020 ...read more
Current historiography on post-1970 women’s movements in Flanders is characterized by blindness to racialized power dynamics. This research challenges this blindness by using the framework of intersectionality as a critical ...read more
Whether as a patron, recipient or reader, the literate princess of the 15th and 16th centuries has been studied until now almost exclusively in her receiving role of literary culture. ...read more
This research project reads the experimental work of Kathy Acker with queer theory. Acker's oeuvre is considered to be one of the most significant collections of experimental writing in English. Scholarly ...read more
Almost half a century ago, Simone de Beauvoir denounced what she called the ‘conspiracy of silence’ in public and scholarly debates about women growing older. Little has changed since then. ...read more
This project aims at rethinking ways of reading and writing change in African gender history. Looking at oral historical narratives and the transgenerational communication of historical knowledge among the Yaawo-speaking ...read more
This project concerns the practice of excluding women or men from religious sites and religious practices in Japan, and the complex interconnections among religion, traditions, and cultural heritage in the ...read more
The Hub Developing in Diversity wants to apply social innovation to increase opportunities for all children, youth and adults in Ghent. We mainly address social inequality in a learning context, by ...read more