This project aims to provide an epistemological analysis of the practice of chemistry in different contexts in the second half of the 18th century and of the interaction between actors ...read more
The Southern African linguistic landscape is dominated by Bantu languages, which form Africa’s largest language family and are spoken by the vast majority of Southern Africans. Nonetheless, the first Bantu-speaking communities ...read more
Jainism, an Indian born religion, is one of the oldest religions in the world. In history, the organizational development, religious characteristics, and practice methods of Jainism are closely related to ...read more
Recent years have seen a growing research interest on the application of translation technology to literary translation workflows, mostly in the form of Machine Translation (MT) or post-editing of MT ...read more
Situated at the intersection of the study of children’s literature, ecocriticism and cognitive literary criticism, this project revisits the question of the transformational potential of children’s literature in light of ...read more
The work of the philosopher-mathematician, Albert Lautman (1908-1944), situated within the French historical epistemological landscape of the 20th-century, is characterized by a fascinating an unique interplay between metaphysics, mathematics and ...read more
A plethora of previous research has shown early beneficial effects of bilingualism and second language acquisition (SLA) on cognitive control (CC) (e.g. Crivello et al., 2016), working memory (WM), and ...read more
Prostitution in Japan has been a much studied subject in recent years. The state-sanctioned, highly regulated prostitution practised in the so-called enclosed quarters (kuruwa) of the Edo period (1600-1868) in ...read more
The main objective of this research are the flying apsaras in the grottoes of the Northern Wei Dynasty, focusing on the three main royal grottoes, Yungang Grottoes, Longmen Grottoes and Gongyi ...read more