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. ...read more
Italy entered World War 2 on 10 June 1940 following the declaration of war by Benito Mussolini. As a nation rich of cultural, historical and archaeological heritage, Italy urged to ...read more
This project studies mass-elite relations in the Greek cities of the Roman empire by examining Plutarch’s Parallel Lives, a second-century AD collection of biographies of Greek and Roman statesmen from classical ...read more
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
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
Arabic was catapulted onto the world stage by the Arab-Islamic conquests of the 7th century CE. Within a few centuries, it was the international medium of science and communication. ‘Classical ...read more
This project examines the diverse representations of early Judaism across the German-speaking lands of the 19th century. In view of the rising nation-state, it illuminates the importance of the ancient past ...read more
The Enlightenment stands as an age of scientific reason, where magic and religion were marginalized as alternative resources of public self-conduct. Among the many historical phenomena that problematize such an ...read more
Between 2019 and 2024, an interdisciplinary team at Ghent University studies the role of Bruges as a late-medieval harbour and the maritime-cultural landscape stretching along the Zwin. This tidal inlet was ...read more