"All the world is on stage" investigates how Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century theatre was materially and socially entangled in the emerging Dutch colonial project. While previous scholarship has focused on plays, texts, ...read more
This project seeks to drop new lines in the water of environmental history to ‘catch’ how ordinary people developed an ecological awareness of their own during the industrialisation of nineteenth-century ...read more
This project offers the first social and intellectual history of Sub-Saharan African student activism in Belgium between 1960 and 1990. Although Sub-Saharan African students played a crucial role in ...read more
The EOSC-ARENA (AI Research Enhancement through Networked Agents) will deliver a sovereign, generative and agentic Artificial Intelligence (AI) environment integrated with the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC). This AI environment will serve ...read more
This project contributes to the vernacular intellectual history of Vedānta philosophies through the study of texts composed in Early Hindi and associated with the Rajput royal courts of North India ...read more
Linguistic changes often follow a cyclical path whereby the original formal expressions are worn down and first reinforced and later replaced by new ones. In how far such ‘micro-cycles’ conspire ...read more
In Dutch studies, there is renewed debate about the relevance and applicability of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological thinking for understanding contemporary developments in Dutch literature. This research project takes up Bourdieu’s ...read more
This research project focuses on the translation of Japanese engi 縁起 texts, produced at local Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines before the 20th century. These texts typically relate the histories ...read more
Research conducted as part of the corresponding doctor-assistant position at the Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication (VTC).read more