The main goal of this research is to examine, investigate and analyse the features and composition of the Three Hares motif in the Dunhuang 敦煌 Mogao Caves (Mogaoku 莫高窟), in ...read more
My PhD research project focuses on the circulation and practice of Buddhism in Turfan around the 5th century. I am interested in how Buddhism in the region was formed/re-formed by ...read more
This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium. It aims to reveal the modalities in which ...read more
This project explores the early modern attitude toward nature through the very popular literary medium of the "hofdicht". In this genre the gardens and country houses of the elite are ...read more
Schedography is a Byzantine method of teaching Greek grammar, especially orthography and syntax. This method was used for more than five hundred years, from the eleventh century to the early ...read more
Owing to their visual essence and status as a popular, modern medium, comics – newspaper strips, comics magazines and graphic novels – provide valuable insight into the transformation of collective consciousness.
This research aims to comprehensively study the iconography of Bhaiṣajyaguru, as a medium to underscore the cross-pollination of religions and beliefs shaping an iconographic paradigm across Central Asia, India, and ...read more
Most ancient Greek and Latin novels contain trial-scenes made of ingredients similar to modern-day legal drama series, such as emotionally-charged testimonies, wrathful confrontations and sidebar talks; and during the adversarial debates, ...read more
Is generative AI ushering in a new dawn for writing evaluation?
The primary research objective of this project is to use state-of-the-art machine learning techniques to enable automatic writing support, for both ...read more
This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more