Projects

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Imaginations of emptiness. Twentieth-century Zen Buddhist literature as utopian narrative and spiritual autobiography

2017

“Encounter dialogue” is perhaps the most recognizable of all (Zen) Buddhist genres. Better known under their abbreviated form as kōan, these texts portray mysterious verbal sparring bouts between Zen masters ...read more
20th Century
Asia
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Japanese
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Religion
Ptolemaic state monopolies. Predation or prosperity?

2017

A striking feature of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt (305–30 BC) is the apparent extent of state controland intervention in industry and trade. A multitude of state-imposed rules and regulations can ...read more
Africa
Antiquity
Area studies
Comparative
English
Greek
History
Language and text analysis
Quantitative
Narrating the mesh. Ecology and the nonhuman in contemporary fiction and oral storytelling

2017

Today’s ecological crisis prompts us to rethink our attitude towards physical and natural realities that have traditionally been seen as opposed to human subjectivity and agency. What emerges from this ...read more
Comparative
Contemporary
English
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
North America
Quantitative
Western Europe
Paint on rolls? Belgian modernists, household experts and residents on the use of wallpaper as an interior finish during the interwar period

2017

Although wallpaper defines the living environment of so many people, this type of wall finish is often criticised. During the interwar period, when ‘the art of living’ became an important ...read more
20th Century
Art
Belgium
Comparative
Dutch
English
Field research
French
Geographic and map based
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Quantitative
A study on the relationship between medieval Chinese Buddhism and the practice of divination

2017

The practice of divination in Buddhism traces its roots to India. However, the mutual engagements between medieval Chinese Buddhism and the practice of divination were deeper than the case in ...read more
Chinese
Comparative
divination in China
Dunhuang divination texts
Far East
History
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Middle Ages
Oriental languages
prognostization
Religion
Seaports, port cities and their hinterland. The maritime network in the county of Flanders in the late middle ages

2017

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Archaeology
Battlefield
Coast
Comparative
Fish
Geographic and map based
Harbour
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Infrastructure
Institutions
Land-maritime interface
Maritime
maritime cultural landschap
Middle Ages
Port city
Quantitative
River
Ships
Surveys
System
Toll
Transport geography
Urban
Water
Western Europe
A diatopic and sociolinguistic study of verbal constructions with possessive pronouns in Spanish varieties

2017

In recent years, the study of the use of possessive complements instead of prepositional ones in the adverbial domain, as in encima mío/a vs. encima de mí ‘above me’, has ...read more
Communication
Comparative
Contemporary
Field research
Geographic and map based
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Linguistics
Portuguese
Quantitative
South America
Spanish
Surveys
Western Europe
EXTRACT. Extracting terminology automatically from comparable texts

2017

Specialised, domain-specific vocabulary, i.e. terminology, has always been difficult and time-consuming to understand and translate well. Nonetheless, terms often contain essential information and a good comprehension is imperative in many ...read more
Comparative
Dutch
English
French
Language and text analysis
Language technology
Quantitative
Studying the origin and use of the oldest prehistoric pottery in north Belgium using high-end mass spectrometric methods

2017

Pottery from the Scheldt basin will be analyzed using a range of mass spectrometric methods. The pottery has been dated to the late 6th and 5th millennium BC, indicating that it ...read more
Archaeology
Belgium
chemical fingerprinting
clay sourcing
Comparative
neolithization
pottery
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Quantitative
Western Europe
Human adaptation in climatically marginal environments of late-5th to 3rd millennium BC Syria and Jordan

2017

The late-5th to 3rd millennium BC saw complex dynamics in nomadic and settled lifestyles in the semi-arid and arid steppe regions of Syria and Jordan, when large, often fortified cities emerged ...read more
Archaeology
Comparative
Field research
Geographic and map based
Middle East
Prehistory (Stone Age)
Protohistory (Bronze Age, Iron Age)
Quantitative
Surveys

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