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Projects

Language and text analysis
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  • Tracing macro-cyclical change through micro-cycles in historical Chinese

    2025

    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

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Diachronic linguistics
    • Generative syntax
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Middle Ages
    • Quantitative

  • A Story of Language Vitality and Endangerment: Sociohistorical Resistance in Bésɨro and Bolivian Guaraní

    2025

    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

    • Comparative
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • South America
    • Surveys

  • Vignettes of the Life of the Buddha at Dunhuang during the Tang and Five Dynasties

    2025

    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

    • 10th century Chinese Buddhist art
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Buddha biography
    • Buddhist iconography
    • Chinese medieval Buddhism
    • Dunhuang manuscripts
    • Dunhuang Mogao caves
    • Dunhuang studies
    • English
    • Field research
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Language and text analysis
    • Medieval China
    • Middle Ages
    • Oriental languages
    • Religion

  • DELIAH: Democratic Literacy and Humour

    2025

    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

    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Central Europe
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Democracy
    • Dutch
    • Eastern Europe
    • Eastern European languages
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Gender
    • German
    • Humor
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Northern Europe
    • Quantitative
    • Southern Europe
    • Spanish
    • Surveys
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe

  • The Palestinian Women's Movements

    2025

    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

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Arabic
    • Area studies
    • Contemporary
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Media
    • Middle East
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • Re-BAR Boundaries of the Religious

    2025

    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

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Arabic
    • Area studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Didactics
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Middle Ages
    • Middle East
    • Philosophy
    • Religion

  • Language Tests for migration and integration: a comparative analysis of evidential and consequential validity

    2025

    This project proposal seeks to bridge significant gaps in the understanding of Migration or Integration Language Tests (MILTs) by scrutinizing their rationale, construction, operationalization, and impact within the contexts of migration and ...read more

    • Comparative
    • Didactics
    • Dutch
    • English
    • Field research
    • German
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Quantitative
    • Surveys
    • Western Europe

  • Research on the Influence of Buddhism on the Historical ‘City-Mountain’ Landscape in Southwest China

    2025

    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

    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Archaeology
    • Area studies
    • Art
    • Asia
    • Buddhism and urban space
    • Buddhist cultural heritage
    • Buddhist landscapes
    • Chinese
    • Chinese Buddhism
    • City landscapes
    • City Mountain landscape
    • English
    • Far East
    • Field research
    • gazetteers
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Language and text analysis
    • Philosophy
    • Religion
    • Religion and urban space
    • religious landscapes
    • Southwestern China
    • Surveys
    • Urban space
    • 方志

  • Bide 比德: A Study on the Premodern Chinese Approach to the Integration of Morality and Aesthetics--An Examination of the Interaction between Confucian and Buddhist Aesthetics

    2025

    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

    • Asia
    • Buddhist Aesthetics
    • Chinese
    • Chinese Aesthetics
    • Chinese philosophy
    • Confucian Aesthetics
    • English
    • Ethics and morality
    • Far East
    • Integration of Morality and Aesthetics
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Philosophy
    • Religion
    • 比德

  • Eco-orality in Digo narratives, Kenya

    2024

    The Digo subgroup are tone of the groups in the Mijikenda community in Kenya. They primarily inhabit the southern coast and interior regions of Kwale, Kenya. The Digo people possess a ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies