This research deals with the semantic and syntactic functions, and the contextualized usages of tense and aspect expressions in early Chinese Buddhist literature translated from Indic languages before the fifth ...read more
This PhD studies the reception of the Dharmaguptakavinaya in Medieval China. The focus lies on the most influential master, master Daoxuan, and his (1) relation to the imperial court, and ...read more
This study will be the first about the Roman tribunate of the plebs that spans its entire history in the Republic and Empire chronologically since Niccolini’s 1932 Il tribunato della ...read more
In the past, Belgium has played a pioneering role in prison design. Despite the growing interest in the history of prison architecture abroad since the 1970's, the study of ...read more
In recent years, both in Belgium and in the Netherlands, several cases of refugees scheduled to be deported to their home countries became highly mediatised. Cases of refugee deportation that ...read more
This project will analyze the Ancient Greek discourse markers gar, oun and de in three fourth-century texts - two of them argumentative (Basil the Great's Hexaemeron and Gregory of Nazianzen's Invectives against ...read more
The so-called city symphony, also often described as city film or city poem, is a film genre that had its heydays in the 1920s and 1930s. Combining elements of documentary, ...read more
The primary aim of this research is to investigate the possibility of using historical theory to analyse something other than historical writing, in this case, the (re)memorialisation of the Brazilian dictatorship (1964-1985), ...read more
Through ethnographic fieldwork and participatory video, I explore the production and mobilization of historical narratives in ‘post-conflict’ Guatemala. More specifically, I focus on the relation between narrativity and political action in indigenous victim-survivor communities in the ...read more
Aristotle claimed in his Ars Poetica that drama specifically differs from the other two literary genres (i.e. epic and poetry) because of the absence of a mediating narrator and because ...read more