This project examines how contemporary Anglophone novels portray plants as dynamic, entangled beings living in and affected by environmental change, crisis, and biodiversity loss. I study how fiction can, on the one ...read more
Linguistic changes often follow a cyclical path whereby the original formal expressions are worn down and first reinforced and later replaced by new ones. In how far such ‘micro-cycles’ conspire ...read more
Episodes of the Buddha’s life are portrayed at the Dunhuang grottoes either as large-scale separate murals or as small vignettes painted in an illustration of the sutra. For a long ...read more
Democratic Literacy and Humour (DELIAH) examines the multifaceted role of humour in artistic forms, cultural spaces, and online and offline fora, identifying how humour can either support or undermine democratic ...read more
For decades, Palestinian women's movements have moved and continue to move in the field of tension of a double resistance - characterised by the struggle against occupation and the challenges ...read more
This seed funded collaborative workshop proposes to facilitate the revision and resubmission of the ENLIGHT Thematic Network (ETN) proposal Boundaries of the Religious (BAR). The workshop will bring together the previous core ...read more
This project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in this ...read more
Bésɨro and Bolivian Guaraní are two communities in Bolivia that share a history of forced migrations and, to this day, face linguistic and cultural erasure. However, they adopted opposite survival ...read more
In the history of ancient Chinese thought, bide 比德 initially existed as a universal mode of thinking with anthropological significance, referring to the association of certain human behaviors or concepts with the characteristics ...read more
Throughout Chinese history, mountain worship has shaped the spatial order of ancient cities as a cultural and spiritual anchor, forming a unique "city-mountain" landscape imbued with regional identity and philosophical/religious ...read more