“Ut pictura poesis”! The comparison is older than Horace but the rivalry between different artistic media continues on the modern stage. The texts this project proposes to analyse embody an ...read more
There is a tight link between the rhythm of external information (e.g., auditory) and movement. It can be seen when we spontaneously or deliberately move on the beat of music ...read more
This research project, a typology of passive constructions in Bantu, involves several fields of linguistics. It focuses on a particular language family, i.e. Bantu, and addresses the question of variation and micro-variation within ...read more
The project seeks to expand the histories of early modern art and science by recalibrating the definition and scope of Renaissance mathematical knowledge through the drawings, prints, and treatises that ...read more
In the mid-20th century, authors increasingly took to the new sonic medium of radio to expand their audience, experiment with new techniques, and express their cultural identity. If modernist scholars ...read more
Logic is the discipline which studies reasoning. Logic has its roots in our argumentative practice,and was developed as a tool for the critical description and evaluation of natural languagearguments. These ...read more
Lusoga has a form of nouns and verbs involving duplication of the root. For example, there are two copies of the verb root -w- ‘give’ in the sentence a-lii-ku-w-a bu-w-e ...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
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
Bantu languages are Africa’s largest language family, found in virtually all areas of Africa below the equator. In southern Africa, however, small groups remain that speak languages of a very ...read more