The cluster “Multicultural Dunhuang: Manuscripts and Paintings” examines the connections between Dunhuang manuscripts and paintings, particularly during the tenth century. A central aim of the project is to bring together ...read more
As a consequence of the deteriorating mental health situation, there is a growing interest in psychotherapies and counseling in China. Following the global indigenization movement starting in the early 1980s, ...read more
Over the past fifty years, funding agencies have come to occupy a central place in academic knowledge-production. As distributors of money, power, and prestige, funding agencies can nowadays change fields, ...read more
Although reading comprehension skills are indispensable in the 21st century, many upper elementary students unfortunately struggle with it. Moreover, the reading strategy use and autonomous reading motivation of many upper ...read more
In the years surrounding the Meiji Restoration (1868), the suppression of Buddhism in favour of a Shinto-based ideology propelled Buddhist thinkers into a reactionary movement aimed at regaining a prominent ...read more
Causal selection refers to the common practice of singling out one cause among all known causes of some event, and calling it "the" cause. Suppose that a fire breaks out ...read more
Studying the phenotypic evolution of organisms in terms of populations of genes and genotypes, the Modern Synthesis (MS) conceptualizes biological evolution in terms of 'inter-organismal' interactions among genes sitting in ...read more
The aim of this project is to explore trans poetry as a site for and form of “trans arts of survival” (Hil Malatino). I am interested in “how [trans people] ...read more
This research project aims to reassess historiographical debates on shifting power relations in rural communities during the transition period 1750-1900, when village communities were gradually incorporated into modern society in ...read more
This empirical research aims to explore the process of negotiating queer aesthetics while challenging hegemonic structures in contemporary Indian fashion. Contemporary representations of the predominant notions of manliness have defined ...read more