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The notion of things and the transformation of seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy

2020

In the Anglophone world, the Chinese character wu 物 is most often straightforwardly translated as “thing”. However, in the everyday Chinese language, wu is a highly distinctive word and concept. In Chinese, people/persons/human beings are ...read more
Area studies
Philosophy
AMICA. Adjusting multilingual information provision on communication needs in asylum reception

2020

Good communication can make a difference. This is often underestimated in contexts of asylum and migration, where other priorities (than language) prevail. This is particularly tangible in the reception of ...read more
Transpacific. The structure and impact of transpacific trade, 16th to 18th centuries, the Manila galleon trade beyond silver and silks

2020

This project will provide a radically new history of early modern trans-Pacific trade, by critically re-evaluating conventionally used sources, examining hitherto neglected historical archives and records in a range of ...read more
The environmental imagination in African francophone literature. An ecopoetic inquiry into Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean islands fiction (1990-present)

2020

Ecological issues occupy an ever-growing place in contemporary literature. I intend to examine how francophone novels and novellas by Maghrebi, Sub-Saharan and Indian Ocean islands authors address the environmental problems ...read more
The history of the agricultural research institute of the Belgian Congo

2020

INEAC, the government-funded agricultural research institute of the Belgian Congo, employed a significant number of European researchers and African personnel for several decades, from the 1920s until the 1960s. Its ...read more
Shared interest or mutual competition? The organization of voluntary jurisdiction in the Southern Low Countries during the late middle ages (1278-1433)

2020

The status of the present-day Belgian notariat is currently being questioned by politicians, and its prominent social position in the recording and authentication of private transactions is at stake. This ...read more
15th Century
Belgium
Comparative
comparative legal history
Counties of Flanders and Hainaut
customary legal practices
Dutch
French
High and Late Middle Ages
History
Language and text analysis
Latin
Middle Ages
Pragmatic literacy
Quantitative
Western Europe
Political assassination in the late Roman Empire. Towards a new approach to studying state power and weakness in ancient Europe and the mediterranean

2020

This research project concerns the political role and impact of assassination in the Late Roman Empire. The killing of
human beings, and above all the judgement of its legitimacy, ...read more
History
From the 21st Century BC to the 21st Century AD. New Methodological Approaches for the Analysis of a Corpus of Unpublished Cuneiform Tablets

2020

This research project aims to enhance the traditional methodologies of textual analysis by leveraging the potential of digital methodologies to study 210 unpublished cuneiform tablets from the Ur III period ...read more
Archaeology
History
Self-actualization and self-transcendence in China. The paradoxical role of fate as an agent for spiritual and psychological wellbeing

2020

This research proposes to investigate the characteristically Chinese concept of fate (ming) in terms of spiritual-psychological agency. Fate has always played a pervasive role in ancient Chinese thought and folk religion. However, fate ...read more
Las vanguardistas. Spanish women poets and the international avant-garde, 1910-1936

2020

The early twentieth century saw the emergence of an avant-garde culture, which marked a turning point in the literary history of Spain. Until recently, the dominant approach to Spanish vanguard ...read more

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