How many children study Italian in Belgium? What is the profile of the Italian teachers sent by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs? The project examines the situation of Italian teaching ...read more
In the early 20th century of China, Buddhism got more and more integrated into economic, political and cultural developments. This contributed to what Master Taixu has called ‘Humanistic Buddhism’. This ...read more
After World War II, the number of illustrated art books on the market rose rapidly. Following technological improvements and greater availability of photographic reproductions of artworks, publishers and art historians ...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
This project wants to contribute to a better understanding of the grammar underlying Spanish-English codeswitching phenomena. In particular, it looks into the factors governing an overlooked but highly productive construction in codeswitching contexts, ...read more
Didactic poetry was a popular genre in Antiquity and the Middle Ages. After a lull in production between the 6th and 10th century, we see a resurgence of Greek didactic ...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
“Friend” or “Infernal Monster”? Comic and Tragic Representations of the Turk and the ‘Self’ in Sixteenth-Century Venetian Theatre aims to understand dramatizations of Turks and ‘Selfs’ in the Venetian Republic, ...read more
Recent years have seen renewed interest in the symbolic, cultural, and theatrical aspects of early modern diplomacy. However, the changed focus of New Diplomatic History has mostly neglected the lavish ...read more
Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSSs) and Patient Decision Aids (PDAs) are increasingly used in clinical practice. Their effectiveness is judged using different outcome measures. For example, PDAs are evaluated using ...read more