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  • The Development of Standard Chinese Education and Its Impact on the Hani Minority in Yunnan, Southwest China

    2019

    The PhD project studies the development of Standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Pu'er (Yunnan), with the following questions as key issues:

    (1) What is ...read more

    • Akha
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • Chinese education
    • Contemporary
    • Didactics
    • English
    • Far East
    • Field research
    • Hani culture
    • Hani dialects
    • Hani language
    • Hani minority
    • Hani standard language
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Minority education in China
    • Oriental languages
    • Surveys
    • Tibeto-Burman languages

  • Reading Pushkin, supporting Putin. Russian literature and the Kremlin’s nation-building agenda

    2018

    This project explores recent efforts by the Russian state to restore the flowering reading culture of Soviet times. The purpose of this policy is not fighting declining reading figures, but ...read more

    • Area studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Crisis of reading
    • Cultural politics
    • Eastern Europe
    • English
    • Field research
    • Globalization
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary canon
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • National identity
    • Post-soviet nostalgia
    • Russia
    • Russian
    • Russian literature

  • The system of Mohist logic and its methodology (新原辩)

    2018

    The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • French
    • German
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Philosophy

  • Writing the past in exile. The interwar Russian émigré historical novel (1917-1939)

    2018

    The research project aims to scrutinize the interwar Russian émigré historical novel, i.e. the phenomenon itself, how it relates to émigré culture, and its relation to other (older and contemporary) ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • Area studies
    • Cultural history
    • Cultural identity
    • Cultural memory
    • Cultural trauma
    • Emigration
    • English
    • Exile
    • Historical novel
    • History
    • Interwar period
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Russian
    • Russian literature
    • Émigré culture

  • Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology (1830-1952)

    2018

    In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Digital humanities
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • History
    • History of science
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Middle East
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • Turning diversity into capacity

    2018

    Starting from fundamental observations about the need and usefulness of cross-national, North/South-comparison around pressing social themes, including questions of how to theorize, investigate and respond adequately to diversity, the proposed ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Capacity building
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Cross-sectoral valorisation
    • Diversity
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • North-South exchange
    • Social inequalities in education

  • Geoarchaeology and palaeoDEMs modelling to assess the archaeological potential of Ravenna and its hinterland

    2018

    Multidisciplinary and diacronich project which aim is to reconstruct the physical evolution of the landscape around Ravenna (Italy) since the Roman Age until today and how this influenced the human ...read more

    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • Production and diffusion of bronze age solid-hilted swords in Western Europe

    2018

    The proposed study region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, belongs during the Bronze Age to an area of contact between different cultural complexes. Its western part was integrated in ...read more

    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • Geographic and map based
    • German
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • Genocide commemoration in the Rwandan diaspora

    2018

    This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe

  • A semantic and etymological study on Greek ἀραρίσκω 'to adapt' and its cognates

    2018

    The purpose of this project is to perform a semantic and etymological study of the Greek verb ἀραρίσκω ‘to adapt’ and its cognates. The origin of the word, i.e. its ...read more

    • Africa
    • Antiquity
    • Asia
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • Eastern European languages
    • English
    • Etymology
    • Far East
    • French
    • German
    • Greek
    • History
    • Icelandic
    • Language and text analysis
    • Latin
    • Linguistics
    • Middle East
    • Northern Europe
    • Oriental languages
    • Proto-Indo-European
    • Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
    • Russian
    • Sanskrit
    • Southern Europe
    • Western Europe