Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
At its very core Platonic philosophy is faced with a seemingly insurmountable difficulty: the transition from causes that are always of necessity immaterial to material effects. How can immaterial principles ...read more
This project aims to document the tonal aspects of Lower Nyole, a moribund and previously unrecognised language in Busoga, a kingdom in the east of Uganda. In addition, an enlarged ...read more
ECSO brings together members of the RHEA Expertise Centre in Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality at VUB Brussels, and CRCG, Centre for Research on Culture and Gender at UGent. Members collaborate regularly ...read more
The aim of the project is to develop an account of explanation in engineering science. In contrast to explanation in the physical sciences, life sciences, and social sciences, very little ...read more
In the context of increasing international education and study abroad at both European and international level, this project aims to explore the nature, experiences, benefits and limitations of study and ...read more
The research programme is presented by a consortium of 11 linguists, informaticians, digital humanities experts and geographers. It aims at the aggregation and standardization of three comprehensive dialect lexicographic databases, ...read more
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
The present Collaborative Research Project aims at shedding light upon some very important defining features of past and modern European identity, such as multilingualism,languages in contact and the various types of ...read more