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  • Rethinking African gender histories. Time, change, and the deeper past in Northern Mozambique

    2019

    This project aims at rethinking ways of reading and writing change in African gender history. Looking at oral historical narratives and the transgenerational communication of historical knowledge among the Yaawo-speaking ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • Gender
    • History

  • The development of standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Yunnan, Southwest China

    2019

    The PhD project studies the development of Standard Chinese education and its impact on the Hani minority in Pu'er (Yunnan), with the following questions as key issues: (1) What is ...read more

    • Akha
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Chinese
    • Chinese education
    • Contemporary
    • Didactics
    • English
    • Far East
    • Field research
    • Hani culture
    • Hani dialects
    • Hani language
    • Hani minority
    • Hani standard language
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Linguistics
    • Minority education in China
    • Oriental languages
    • Surveys
    • Tibeto-Burman languages

  • 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

  • Back to the roots. Agroforestry and the rediscovery of Roman viticulture

    2019

    There is still a widespread view that Rome’s expanding economic influence over the Mediterranean in the Late Republic (ca. 200-50 BC) triggered a dramatic change in Italy’s wine industry. This ...read more

    • 15th Century
    • 16th Century
    • 17th Century
    • 18th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Antiquity
    • Archaeology
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • Geographic and map based
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Late Antiquity
    • Middle Ages
    • Quantitative
    • Southern Europe
    • Surveys

  • 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

  • Syntax, semantics and discourse function of shell nouns in French and Romanian

    2019

    Shell nouns are a nominal category that has first been conceptualized by cognitive linguists such as Schmid (2000). This concept was later translated and further explored by French researchers (Legallois, 2006; ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Communication
    • Comparative
    • Construction grammar
    • Contemporary
    • Corpus-based
    • Corpus linguistics
    • Didactics
    • Eastern Europe
    • French
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Linguistics
    • Quantitative
    • Romanian
    • shell nouns
    • Western Europe

  • Remember Africa? The effects of twice-migration on the religious and cultural lives of British ‘East African’ Jains

    2019

    The project "Remember Africa?” uses different types of contemporary memorial projects and narratives of individual Jains in the UK to address the experience of twice-migration and its impact upon religious ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Area studies
    • Asia
    • Contemporary
    • Field research
    • History
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Religion
    • Western Europe

  • 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

  • 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