The resurgence of identity politics in India has deeply polarised public discourse between a fundamental clash of cultures and a liberal, pluralistic view of society. Behind the present deadlock is ...read more
During the late nineteenth century, kimonos were favoured dressing gowns and many tea-gowns contained elements inspired by Antiquity, the Middle Ages or the eighteenth century. Paradoxically, these female garments evoking ...read more
This project explores the potential for sustainable economic valorization of a multilingual tool designed to improve communication in healthcare settings. Key features include translations provided by native speakers, spoken translations ...read more
Inspired by the paradigmatic shifts of both transnational and global history, historians have, in recent years, begun to question the methodological nationalism and the exceptionalist discourses pervading the history of ...read more
The quality of language stimulating interactions in early childhood education (ECE) has an important impact on the academic language skills of young children, which in turn is a powerful predictor ...read more
This project focuses on an interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Pyrethrum is a pesticide component derived from the chrysanthemum plant species. The yellow ...read more
The project aims to study the mosques on the Malabar coast of India in the period that ranges from the initial spread of Islam in this region to the late ...read more
Stories of homelessness, both fictional and non-fiction ones, tend to occlude the factors that cause a loss of housing. From the time the term “homeless” first came to denote a ...read more
After AI models are trained and deployed, it is often hard to understand their results. The blooming field of explainable AI (XAI) seeks to make AI models understandable by using ...read more
My project is a philosophical investigation into the practice and the virtues of Evidence-Based Policy (EBP). A survey of current literature on EBP reveals two features that motivate my project: ...read more