In Unfolding Amnesia: An Interdisciplinary Inquiry into Artistic Practices and the Politics of Oblivion visual artist Jelena Juresa investigates the politics of oblivion in relation to the construction of a homogeneous ...read more
Scholars usually concurr that transport by rivers and lakes greatly stimulated the development of trade in the Roman empire. The contribution of rivers and lakes to transport networks is mostly ...read more
Market buildings, that is, one-, two- or three-storied colonnaded porticoes with attached outbuildings, generally containing multiple workshops, storage spaces and other facilities and located on or near the city’s central ...read more
The Postdoctoral Research Abroad Program, sponsored by Ministry of Science and Technology, is intended to subsidize Taiwanese postdoctoral researchers to conduct research at an accredited educational institute abroad. The goal ...read more
The major goal of this research project is to develop a ‘translatability prediction system’ for English-Dutch that not only automatically assigns a global difficulty score to a given source text, ...read more
What does it mean that a group of agent is jointly responsible for a certain state of affairs, decision, or action? What is the logic of collective responsibility?
Japanese stage arts such as kabuki or bunraku have attracted attention from both Japanese and Western scholars - both stage arts are hereditary: fathers teach the art to their sons before these ...read more
The core of the dissertation concerns the first critical edition of the Old Church Slavonic translation of the Passio Theclae or passion of Saint Thecla, also known as the originally apocryphal ...read more
This project presents a new interpretation of the functioning of the late antique state and society (4th-5th c. A.D.). Long neglected, Late Antiquity is now a blooming field of research ...read more
Many of the values shared across modern Europe were first adopted by noblemen and -women in the High Middle Ages in order to present themselves as morally superior and thus to ...read more