This project explores how the medical body was imagined in late 18th- and early 19th-century Japanese illustrated fiction and woodblock prints through the individual voices of urban writers and artists ...read more
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
My current research involves an ethnographic analysis of women's agency (in Dutch 'vrouwenkracht') in a broad arena of spirituality practices through to coaching and personal growth, in Belgium, the Netherlands, ...read more
This project aims to investigate developmental sequences in the foreign language acquisition of the Hindi case system. A qualitative longitudinal study will be conducted among Hindi foreign language learners in ...read more
De educatieve trend ‘blended learning’ richt zich op het vermengen van digitale leermiddelen met contactonderwijs ter verbetering van het onderwijs. Met het ontwerpen van de innovatieve, digitale demonstrator “Singewing space”, ...read more
SHIP is an ”Internationalisation in the Humanities project” aimed at a comparative history of health and disease in European port cities, 1850-1950. Port cities in the past acted as ‘gateways ...read more
This project studies the modernist poetry anthology in relation to the modernist magazine to shed new light on the formation of a modernist tradition. It examines a corpus of serially ...read more
The proposed research aims to investigate the transnational adoption of children from the perspectives of actors in ‘sending’ countries. These perspectives have received insufficient attention in adoption research so far, ...read more
This project will investigate how and to what exent ‘pragmatic literacy’ — or the competences of reading and writing required to develop and run an administration based on written documents — ...read more