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Institute for European Culture and Society KU Leuven

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Research topics of this team are:

• Literature and myth
• Literary realism in Italian prose of the twentieth century
• Italian literature in a European perspective
• Petrarch and petrarism
• Modernism and avant-garde

Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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The research unit Histories of Art, Architecture and Visual Culture (VISU) offers a platform for fundamental research on the history and theory of art, architecture and visual culture from the early modern period up to the present. It studies not only the artistic and architectural practice, the material object and the spatial environment, but also the broader cultural, historical and societal context, which often relates to current themes ...

Centre for Metaphysics and Culture University of Antwerp

The first aim of the Centre for Metaphysics and Culture is to provide room for collective and individual research both into the history of the concept of metaphysics in ancient, medieval, modern and contemporary philosophy (special points of reference in the past and the present were: Ammonius, Schopenhauer, Collingwood, Cassirer) and into the history of the critique of metaphysics (Kant, Nietzsche, Dilthey, Heidegger). In addition, the Centre ...

Department of Comparative sciences of culture Ghent University

The research programme seeks to address the following challenges: How does one get beyond these constraints and develop alternative descriptions of the West and India? How can one conceptualize the Indian traditions in a way which shows their characteristic contribution to human knowledge, rather than making them into variants of biblical religion? How could one make sense of cultural differences and different cultures, if they are not ...

ECHO: Research group on media, culture and politics Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The research group Echo is devoted to the study of meaning across media, culture and politics, and their intersections. The group is home to an international group of scholars working on how meaning circulates, fluctuates, and resonates in society. Echo's aim is to produce a critical and nuanced understanding of how the reproduction and contestation of meaning contributes to social, cultural and political change and continuity.

Centre for Mycenaean and Archaic-Greek Culture Vrije Universiteit Brussel

The research unit for Mycenaean and Archaic Greek Culture aims at studying specific cultural aspects of the Greek world during the Bronze and Iron Age. Within this scope we investigated, for example, the archaeological ideograms in Lineair A and B. Our studies are not limited to the Greek mainland, but also encompass the islands of the Eastern Mediterranean, which were all to a great extent influenced by Greek culture. In recent years our ...

KADOC - Documentation and Research Centre on Religion, Culture and Society KU Leuven

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Established in 1976, KADOC wants to promote interdisciplinary research on the interaction between religion, culture and society in a Belgian, Europan and global context from the 19th century until present. To support its research, the Center has a large documentation fund (archives, library and au diovisual documentation) at its disposal. Research in KADOC is done by membersof the staff and contract-researchers. Also the members of the ...

Centre for Metaphysics, Philosophy of Religion and Philosophy of Culture KU Leuven

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- The challenges of contemporary thought (Nietzsche, Heidegger, Lacan, Foucault, Derrida) directed towards metaphysics and anthropology are historically and critically examined. - The implications of contemporary thought on the concepts of wholeness/optimal humanity in philosophy of education. - Contemporary possibilities for metaphysics. Center for Metaphysics and the philosophy of God: Documentation Center: - Process thought (A.N. Whitehead ...