This project presents a new interpretation of the functioning of the late antique state and society (4th-5th c. A.D.). Long neglected, Late Antiquity is now a blooming field of research ...read more
The Roman empire in Late Antiquity (c. 300-600 A.D.) was long seen as an autocratic state where the emperor took all decisions. Recent studies have emphasized that many imperial laws ...read more
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
Time Machine is a FET-Flagship/LSRI CSA project in preparation of a full FET Flagship/LSRI proposal, funded by the EU through the H2020 programme. ...read more
The Bantu Expansion is not only the principal linguistic, cultural and demographic process in Late Holocene Africa. It has also become one of the most controversial issues in African History. ...read more
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
The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more
The research project aims to scrutinize the interwar Russian émigré historical novel, i.e. the phenomenon itself, how it relates to émigré culture, and its relation to other (older and contemporary) ...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
Fellowship for Advanced Postdoc Mobility awarded to Dr. Thalia Brero (Université de Genève) by the Fonds National Suisse de la Recherche Scientifique - September 2018-February 2020.read more