Projects
- Culture in translation. Takashimaya’s representations of Japanese culture in fashion (2022 – )
- Buddhism, medicine, and gender in premodern Japan (2021 – 2026)
- A cultural history of the internal organs in premodern Japan (2021 – 2025)
- Religion and women’s health in premodern East Asia (2020 – 2024)
- A qualitative investigation of the potential of aikido, a Japanese martial art, as an embodied pedagogy to serve intercultural business communication training (2019 – 2025)
- Performing the ethical body in early modern health discourses (2019 – 2023)
- Sacred gender exclusion. A study of cultural heritage and religious tradition in modern Japan (2019 – 2022)
- Performing the ethical body in early modern health discourses (2019 – 2023)
- Buddhism in print. Japanese Buddhist intellectuals and the periodical press in the Early Meiji period (2018 – 2021)
Research Centres
- BOCULT – Centre for Research on Body Cultures in Motion
- EACP – East Asian Culture in Perspective: Identity, Historical Consciousness, Modernity
- GCBS – Ghent Centre for Buddhist Studies
- ECC – Economies, Comparisons, Connections
Researchers
- Prof. Dr. Anna Andreeva
- Prof. Dr. Andreas Niehaus
- Prof. Dr. Christian Uhl
- Elias Bouckaert
- Dra. Sarah Stark
- Stephanie Van Rentergem
Interdisciplinary