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  • Forensic history

    2019

    I am finishing a book for Cambridge University Press on the use of history and historians by judges and lawyers in US litigation.read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • North America
    • Quantitative

  • Tanzania’s historiography. Bhoke Munanka, (covert) politics and the uses of biography for historical research

    2019

    This PhD investigates Tanzania's covert politics through a focus on Bhoke Munanka's role in nationalism during the colonial era and Tanzania's post-colonial development through a thematically focused biographical approach.   ...read more

    • Biography
    • Colonial history
    • Covert politics
    • English
    • History
    • Postcolonial History
    • Tanzania

  • The ambiguity of technoscience. From phenomenotechnique to design science

    2019

    The 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to work on ‘directed evolution’. The latter is not a new theory or discovery, but a technique to let natural selection shape ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Contemporary
    • data science
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • History
    • History and philosophy of the life sciences
    • Language and text analysis
    • Philosophy
    • Philosophy of technology
    • Synthetic biology
    • technoscience
    • Western Europe

  • Specialized digital frame-based lexicography from the perspective of dictionary use research

    2019

    Research on dictionary use, which has grown in importance since the 1990s, is a type of dictionary research which aims to provide the foundation for the refinement of completed and ...read more

    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Lexicography
    • Portuguese
    • Quantitative

  • 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