COURAGE (Cultural opposition. Understanding the cultural heritage of dissent in the former socialist countries) is a three-year international research project funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and ...read more
This project investigates how modern Chinese Islamic thinkers accommodated the novel category of "religion" and renegotiated the position of Islam in twentieth-century and contemporary China by studying the complex relations ...read more
The practice of divination in Buddhism traces its roots to India. However, the mutual engagements between medieval Chinese Buddhism and the practice of divination were deeper than the case in ...read more
The project aims at the first critical edition of Tzetzes’ Theogony, which is a creative paraphrase of Hesiod’s Theogony and consists of approximately 855 political verses. My intention is to ...read more
This joint research project deals with the negotiation of colonial hygiene by “expert” actors in (transnational) networks with a focus on the Belgian context between the first Leopoldian expeditions in ...read more
During the last two decades, large scale infrastructure works along the Lower Scheldt river, in particular in the Waasland Scheldt polders (NW-Belgium), have revealed deeply buried and well preserved prehistoric ...read more
Indian dances have since long inspired women around the world, not only increasing the international success of staged performances, but also inspiring large numbers of Euro-American women to learn and/or ...read more
Mahlu Mertens's PhD project explores how climate change literature that resists the typical form of the climate dystopia may provide alternative ways of narrating anthropogenic climate change that are more ...read more
The aim of this project is to understand how professional translators deal with cognates, compared to natural bilinguals and novice translators, taking into account account the specific training of professional ...read more