The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more
This project focuses on the 17th-century French philosopher and scientist Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). It will attempt to clarify some particular features of the theories on (atomic) matter and motion which ...read more
This research project focuses on the handwritten lecture notebooks produced in the universities of the early modern Southern Netherlands. It intends to open up new horizons at the intersection of ...read more
Second phase of the VLIRUOS-IUS with Mzumbe U, now with focus on transversal themes, after successful midterm evaluation in April 2018 (yet still pending formulation week of May 2018). The ...read more
The current work presents the very first eye-tracking corpus of natural reading by Chinese-English bilinguals, whose two languages entail different writing systems and orthographies. Participants read an entire novel in ...read more
Although language diversity poses short-term challenges, early multilingualism and multi-literacy come with great benefits, at least, when it is correctly supported. Currently, many language minority (LM) families are distressed about ...read more
Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ...read more
NewsDNA is an interdisciplinary four-year research project (2018-2022) in which the primary aim is to develop and test an algorithm that uses news diversity as a key driver for personalized news ...read more
The Bantu Expansion is not only the principal linguistic, cultural and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa. It has also become one of the most controversial issues in African History. ...read more
The crucial importance of Syriac historiography for the general history of the Mediëval Middle East has recently been highlighted (e.g. early history of Islam; crusades). Even if the genre has ...read more