De educatieve trend ‘blended learning’ richt zich op het vermengen van digitale leermiddelen met contactonderwijs ter verbetering van het onderwijs. Met het ontwerpen van de innovatieve, digitale demonstrator “Singewing space”, ...read more
SHIP is an ”Internationalisation in the Humanities project” aimed at a comparative history of health and disease in European port cities, 1850-1950. Port cities in the past acted as ‘gateways ...read more
This project studies the modernist poetry anthology in relation to the modernist magazine to shed new light on the formation of a modernist tradition. It examines a corpus of serially ...read more
The proposed research aims to investigate the transnational adoption of children from the perspectives of actors in ‘sending’ countries. These perspectives have received insufficient attention in adoption research so far, ...read more
This project will investigate how and to what exent ‘pragmatic literacy’ — or the competences of reading and writing required to develop and run an administration based on written documents — ...read more
“Encounter dialogue” is perhaps the most recognizable of all (Zen) Buddhist genres. Better known under their abbreviated form as kōan, these texts portray mysterious verbal sparring bouts between Zen masters ...read more
A striking feature of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt (305–30 BC) is the apparent extent of state controland intervention in industry and trade. A multitude of state-imposed rules and regulations can ...read more
This project examines the role of curiosity and its literary representation in Alexandre Dumas’ oeuvre. My aim is twofold: (1) to expand Blumenberg’s inquiry on curiosity into the French nineteenth ...read more
Today’s ecological crisis prompts us to rethink our attitude towards physical and natural realities that have traditionally been seen as opposed to human subjectivity and agency. What emerges from this ...read more
After the conquest of Alexander the Great, the city of Alexandria became an important place for scholarly debate during the Hellenistic period (323-31 BCE). Alexandrine grammarians studied Greek literature and ...read more