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20th Century
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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

  • 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
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    • 18th Century
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    • 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

  • Rinascimento ritrovato. The renaissance revival and the universal man in Gabriele d’Annunzio (1863-1938) and his time

    2018

    If we ask you what we inherited from the Italian Renaissance, your thoughts will possibly run to the artworks that fascinate scholars and students all around the world. But, along with ...read more

    • 16th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Italian
    • Literary studies
    • Western Europe

  • Pyramids and progress. Belgian expansionism and the making of egyptology (1830-1952)

    2018

    In Belgium, Egyptology emerged later than elsewhere in Europe, but once under steam, it went through a rapid growth in the course of the first half of the 20th century. ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • Archaeology
    • Belgium
    • Digital humanities
    • Dutch
    • English
    • French
    • History
    • History of science
    • Language and text analysis
    • Language technology
    • Middle East
    • Quantitative
    • Western Europe

  • 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

  • Genocide commemoration in the Rwandan diaspora

    2018

    This project explores commemorative responses to the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, seeking to building an understanding of the forms of commemoration taking place among Rwandan genocide survivors ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • French
    • Interculturalism
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • Theatre and performing arts
    • Translation Studies
    • Western Europe

  • Children in comics. An intercultural history from 1865 to today

    2018

    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 project advances ...read more

    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Body
    • carnivalesque
    • childhood studies
    • Children's literature
    • Comics studies
    • Comparative
    • Contemporary
    • Dutch
    • English
    • family
    • French
    • Gender
    • German
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Interculturalism
    • Italian
    • Language and text analysis
    • Literary studies
    • Media
    • North America
    • Northern Europe
    • Southern Europe
    • Spanish
    • Western Europe

  • The origins of early anglophone philosophy of science. Debating scientific explanation

    2018

    After the introduction of Carl Hempel’s Covering Law model in 1948, scientific explanation became a central topic of philosophical attention in early anglophone philosophy of science in the 1950s and ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Philosophy

  • A History of Islamic Law Courts in Tanzania, 1950s-2010.

    2018

    In all colonial states in Africa, the legal traditions of the colonized encountered, coexisted and occasionally clashed with those of the colonizers. Consequently, all post-colonial states have to grapple with ...read more

    • 20th Century
    • Africa
    • African languages
    • Arabic
    • Contemporary
    • English
    • Field research
    • History

  • Rubens in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction: The Oeuvre of Peter Paul Rubens in Illustrated Art Books, Film and Television (1877-1977)

    2018

    The study of Peter Paul Rubens’ life and work has always been strongly determined by the availability of ‘truthful’ reproductions. This dependence on the reproduced image inevitably alters the way ...read more

    • 17th Century
    • 19th Century
    • 20th Century
    • Art
    • Belgium
    • Comparative
    • History
    • Iconography and analysis of images
    • Media
    • Western Europe