Projects

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The relationship between performer and spectator within the theatre space in Ontroerend Goed (BE) and in the Theatre Laboratory Machal (KO)

2016

The worlds of theatre is regarded the start with the ritual ceremony similar to a dialogue with God. Early theatre tries to enter into a relationship with God, during the ...read more
20th Century
Contemporary
Dutch
English
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Media
Philosophy
Religion
Theatre and performing arts
Boundary stones in the body. Kidney, bladder and gall stones as markers of early modern concepts of the human body and its relations with the outside world, 1525-1675

2016

How did early modern Europeans make sense of painful and uncanny bodily excretions? Rather than dismissing such afflictions as a nuisance to be eliminated by the ‘life sciences’, pre-modern patients ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
Biology
Fossils
Geology
Heredity
History
Iconography and analysis of images
Language and text analysis
Materiality
Medicine
Mineralogy
Monstruosity
Northern Europe
Pain
Philosophy
Physiology
Relics
Religion
Southern Europe
Western Europe
The relationship between Yongming poetic style and politics in the Yongming era

2016

This study will make a new interpretation of the 'Yongming poetic style' poems from a political perspective and argues that these poems are not a reaction to "a peaceful flourishing ...read more
Asia
Chinese
Chinese poetry
Language and text analysis
Linguistics
Literary studies
Medieval Chinese
Philosophy
Politic and literature
Religion
The cultivation of human organisms. The foundational importance of embodiment in Nietzsches genealogical writings

2016

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Philosophy
A historico-logical study of vitalism. Life and matter

2016

This project attempts to offer a philosophical critique of vitalism from the standpoints of both the history of science and the logic of science (the logic of science endorses logical ...read more
19th Century
20th Century
Comparative
Contemporary
English
History
Language and text analysis
North America
Philosophy
Western Europe
Anti-mathematicism in philosophy

2015

Formal approaches are very influential in philosophy with many successes in logic, formalepistemology, semantics, and normative decision theory. Past philosophical formal developmentshave been influential outside of philosophy in areas as ...read more
History of science
Philosophy
The concept of art in art history

2015

Art historians continually use concepts of art, i.e., they continually distinguish between art and non-art. Before initiating their art historical inquiries, they have to decide which items are eligible for ...read more
20th Century
Art
Contemporary
History
Language and text analysis
Philosophy
Quantitative
Supporting cross-disciplinary collaboration using insights from computational linguistics and philosophy of science

2015

The main aim of this project is to develop a new and original prototype tool that supports cross-disciplinary (CD) collaboration. The prototype focuses on problems related to language and methodology. ...read more
Contemporary
Language technology
Linguistics
Philosophy
Studies in the textual history and editorial practices of the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 and the Jǐngdé chuándēng lù 景德傳燈錄.

2015

This project explores the textual history and the literary features of the two earliest extant multi-lineal Chán lamp records: (1) the Zǔtáng jí 祖堂集 (Patriarchs’ Hall Collection, K.1503; henceforth ZTJ), ...read more
Area studies
Asia
Buddhism
Chinese
Chinese Buddhism
Chán Buddhism
Far East
History
Japanese
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Middle Ages
Oriental languages
Philosophy
Religion
Sanskrit
Zen Buddhism
Open ending. Interdisciplinary research into the development of physical and mental spaces for new rituals of parting in contemporary society

2015

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Art
Ethics and morality
Interculturalism
Philosophy
Religion
Theatre and performing arts