This PhD-project studies the exploitation and management of woodlands during wartime and the impact of conflicts on the structure and diversity of forests, which played a major role in military ...read more
The aim of this research project is to shed light on the development of the Miaphysite movement through a socio-historical lens, filling a crucial gap in the current scholarly discourse. ...read more
VIOLENCE WORK is a groundbreaking study of everyday violence in Belgian Central Africa—Burundi, Congo, and Rwanda (19th-20th C). Though colonial violence has been studied widely, few have explored how everyday ...read more
Relationship websites, speed dating events, and advertisements offer new possibilities for establishing a family for individuals seeking sperm or egg donors or co-parents for their future children. Users of these ...read more
The global population is ageing at an accelerated rate and older people are more likely to face existential isolation and existential loneliness. In China, the country with the world's largest ...read more
The Bronze Age in Lower and Upper Mesopotamia was a time of major changes in power, culture, and society. New social and cultural ideas from this ...read more
The School of Sade traces the literary legacy of D.A.F. Marquis de Sade in Dutch and Flemish literature from the 1960s onward. The project explores both the reception of Sade ...read more
OTTOWAQF will examine how religious foundations shaped state building in the Ottoman Empire during a crucial period between 1450 and 1650. Religious foundations controlled vast swaths of land and property ...read more
This project investigates the formation of Chinese Chan/Zen 禪 Buddhist historiography during the Tang-Song transition (ca. 750–1000). It focuses on how Chan historians shaped and refined hagiographies for the Chan ...read more
This project will reorient the study of Italian Holocaust-related literary production by defining and investigating a new category of it, consisting of texts by Jewish authors that bear witness to ...read more