Research

Projects

• • Building Buddhist heritage in postwar Japan. The silk road between history and memory at Yakushiji temple (2024 – 2027)
  • Buddhism, medicine, and gender in premodern Japan (2021 – 2026)
  • A cultural history of the internal organs in premodern Japan (2021 – 2025)
  • Performing the nation. Cultural nationalism in Ikebana (2023 – 2024)
  • 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
• Dr. Paride Stortini
• Elias Bouckaert
• Marlies Holvoet
• Sarah Stark
• Stephanie Van Rentergem

Interdisciplinary

•  Carl De Crée

Annual Reports

• 06/02/2022 – Annual Report 2020-21
• 13/012020 – Annual Report 2019
• 05/02/2019 – Annual Report 2018
• 16/01/2018 – Annual Report 2017
• 24/01/2017 – Annual Report 2016
• 25/01/2016 – Annual Report 2015

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