The Equal Opportunities Team, within the Agency for Domestic Governance of the Flemish Government, ordered in 2017 the Transgender Infopunt - UZ Gent to carry out a qualitative and quantitative needs assessment nature, ...read more
In Unfolding Amnesia: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Artistic Practices and the Politics of Oblivion visual artist Jelena Juresa investigates the politics of oblivion in relation to the construction of a homogeneous ...read more
This project presents a new interpretation of the functioning of the late antique state and society (4th-5th c. A.D.). Long neglected, Late Antiquity is now a blooming field of research ...read more
The aim of this project is to develop the first comprehensive study of the economic role of the Old Babylonian temples as institutions and their evolving relation with the Palace ...read more
This study envisages an international book publication approaching various traditions of materiality in different parts of the world as hybrid creations. The cultural dynamics are determined by the art of ...read more
This project is looking for the Resultative Construction (= RC), e.g. John hammered the metal flat, in 2 Romance (i.e. French, Spanish) and 2 Germanic Languages (i.e. English and Dutch). ...read more
Machine translation systems cannot guarantee that the text they produce will be fluent and coherent in both syntax and semantics. Erroneous words and syntax occur frequently in machine-translated text, leaving the reader ...read more
In 1992 I carried out fieldwork in Central Kenya, collecting Gikuyu oral narratives and discussing their historical relations to gender-identity and morality with the performers. Eventually this resulted in my ...read more
Political contention over food scarcity during World War I gave rise to the “Profiteering Acts”. In doing so, stately actors tried to preserve their monopoly of punishment by integrating popular anger towards ...read more
Retranslation, in its double sense of “the act of translating a work that has previously been translated into the same language” and “the result of such an act, i.e. the ...read more