This dissertation investigates the interplay between theatricality and religious representation in Jean Frédéric Bernard and Bernard Picart'sCérémonies et coutumes religieuses de tous les peuples du monde (1723–1737). As a richly illustrated collection of ...read more
This research project concerns the political role and impact of assassination in the Late Roman Empire. The killing of human beings, and above all the judgement of its legitimacy, is ...read more
Belgian politicians have been debating the societal importance of notaries for several years. Nowadays, there are increasing calls for liberalising the notarial profession in its current form. Besides a reform ...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. It wants to build the Big Data ...read more
This project concerns the practice of excluding women or men from religious sites and religious practices in Japan, and the complex interconnections among religion, traditions, and cultural heritage in the ...read more
Au Musée royal de l'Afrique centrale, aujourd’hui Africamuseum à Tervuren en Belgique qui se réorganise et redéfinie sa mission se trouve une sculpture « infamante » présentant un anioto, un ...read more
Modern scholarship has examined political violence in the Late Roman Empire (late fourth to early sixth centuries CE) primarily as the result of mass migration processes, or as the self-evident ...read more
This PhD investigates Tanzania's covert politics through a focus on Bhoke Munanka's role in nationalism during the colonial era and Tanzania's post-colonial development through a thematically focused biographical approach.