Projecten

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The hub for bike studies

2023

The Hub for Bike Studies, a joint initiative of Ghent University and Abertay University, is a gathering space for those interested in bikes and cycling. Co-Directeurs Sportifs are Andrew ...read more
PoTaRCh. Network for forest by-products charcoal, resin, tar, potash

2023

EU-PoTaRCh (EU COST Action project CA22155) establishes a network for the past, present and future of use of major non-timber forest raw materials and products in Europe. Whilst it will ...read more
OriKunda. On the origins of Chikunda, a language without a land

2023

The OriKunda project (PI Rozenn Guérois) aims at revising the history of the Chikunda people and language from the origins to the present day, through historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, ...read more
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19e eeuw
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Afrika
Afrikaanse talen
Bantu comparative linguistics
Bantu historical linguistics
Bantu lexicography
Bantu linguistics
Comparatief
Hedendaags
Historical linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Southern Africa
Surveys en enquêtering
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Taalkunde
Veldonderzoek
Akragas (Agrigento, Sicily). The quarter of Gate II

2023

Agrigento was founded as a Greek colony, Akragas, in southwestern Sicily in the 6th century BCE, and is now protected as a UNESCO World Heritage Site as an outstanding example of Greek ...read more
Archeologie
(Post)colonial cattle frontiers. Capitalism, science and empire in Southern and Central Africa, 1890s-1970s

2023

This project explores the transformations in cattle production in Southern and Central Africa during the colonial and early postcolonial period. During this period, (post)colonial governments, scientists, entrepreneurs and settlers promoted ...read more
TACOS. A study into the effects of a blended professional development program on pre-primary teachers' language stimulating competences

2023

The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor ...read more
België
language stimulating competences
Multilingualism
second language learning
Green science, technology and innovation from the south. An interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania

2023

This project focuses on an interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Pyrethrum is a pesticide component derived from the chrysanthemum plant species. The yellow ...read more
Afrika
Hedendaags
Kwantitatief
Veldonderzoek
Machine translation evaluation in the context of scholarly communication

2023

This study is part of the 'Translations and Open Science' project, which explores the possibility of using machine translation (MT) to disseminate research results in different languages. In 2020, the ...read more
Vertaalkunde
The great leap. Multidisciplinary approaches to health inequalities, 1800-2022. A COST action

2023

To this day and age, deep-routed, structural inequalities in health have been one of the most consistent and pressing challenges society has faced. Recent events, such as the COVID19 pandemic ...read more
Violence work. Creating and contesting colonial authority on the ground in Africa through everyday violence

2023

VIOLENCE WORK is a groundbreaking study of everyday violence in Belgian Central Africa—Burundi, Congo, and Rwanda (19th-20th C). Though colonial violence has been studied widely, few have explored how everyday ...read more