This research project examines the stylistic features of Robert Schumann’s and Richard Wagner’s Musikkritik. The critical writings of both composers have so far been read as a corroboration of Romantic musical poetics. The ...read more
This doctoral project puts into focus the changing nature, dramatic actuality and expanded, bio-ethical and visual meaning of suicidal phenomena as symptoms of global media culture in the first decade ...read more
During the last couple of decades, evolutionary theory has expanded its subject matter beyond its traditional topics, such as the origin of life, the study of biodiversity, and the physiological ...read more
Izmir is a metropolitan Turkish city located at Aegean Sea connected with Mediterranean Sea. Parallel to global developments in tourism many local organisations are looking for making Izmir a brand ...read more
This research programme, for which Ghent University collaborates with the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, aims at explaining how orientalism was introduced, perceived and propagated in the Belgian ...read more
Until the end of the 18de century dancing remained a rather elitist and generally private matter. Between 1795 up to 1830 we see the context within which bals are organised, ...read more
Recent evolutions in the theater practice since the turn of the millennium show a clear renewed interest in the trope of visual illusion. This tendency is remarkable, because postdramatic theater ...read more