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
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
This research project is being undertaken by Shabani Mwakalinga, PhD candidate in the history department. It aims to establish how so-called kadhis' courts functioned in late-colonial and early independent Tanzania, what role ...read more
This project focuses on one of the most common and iconic structures in World War I archaeology: the trenches. Although the surface traces were erased in the post-war years and ...read more
My study revolves around the unduly neglected figure of the late-Qing and early Republican Confucian scholar Liao Ping 廖平 (1852-1932). Instead of attempting to write an intellectual biography in a traditional sense, ...read more
This study examines the place, importance and significance of the institutional solo exhibition within the oeuvre of Belgian artist Jan Vercruysse (1948-2018).
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
Over the past fifty years, funding agencies have come to occupy a central place in academic knowledge-production. As distributors of money, power, and prestige, funding agencies can nowadays change fields, ...read more
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 ...read more
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