Ancient Greece witnessed significant socio-political shifts from the Classical to the Roman period, shaping both regional history and societal dynamics in the populations. Despite the recently emerging view of low ...read more
My research project aims to trace the social histories of the Bhagavad Gītā from the centuries just prior to colonialism in North India to the 18th and the 19th centuries. ...read more
In the context of globalization and digitalization, this study analyses the literary and artistic creations of Chinese socialist feminism in cyberspace, and explores the unique cultural expressions of the modernity ...read more
The impact of hunter-gatherers on the environment has been a controversial topic since at least the 1960’s. In Northwestern-Europe it is generally assumed that humans only started influencing their environment ...read more
The English translation project of the book Buddhism and Literature in the Southern Dynasties 南朝佛教与文学 by Pu Hui普慧 is funded by the Chinese Fund for the Humanities and Social Sciences (grant ...read more
The title of this project alludes to the terms used by Gabriele D'Annunzio to describe his translation experiments (from Latin and Ancient Greek) in his first youthful collection of poems. ...read more
As India and Europe are becoming increasingly important to each other as economic, political, and strategic partners, sensitive issues arise in their encounters. Today, it is crucial to gain insight ...read more
Cities such as Paris, Bruges, Ghent and Florence experienced remarkable growth from the High Middle Ages onwards. Recent scholarship indicates that this economic complexity was primarily driven by local and ...read more
My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highland Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern ...read more
The starting point of this research proposal is that shedding light onto the question of whether there could be a markedly Kantian philosophy of language must pass through a thorough ...read more