Charles Darwin’s proposition that humanity constitutes one species among many implies a shared, primordial foundation of cognition and existence with other life forms. This premise inevitably raises a central question: ...read more
This project challenges the assumption that narrative fiction is valuable because it creates understanding of other people’s experiences and lived realities through empathy. To date, popular perception frames failures of ...read more
This project investigates the "text predominance" phenomenon in multimodal emotion analysis, where existing models rely excessively on textual information while underutilising audio and visual cues. By combining linguistic insights with ...read more
This project investigates the "text predominance" phenomenon in multimodal emotion analysis, where existing models rely excessively on textual information while underutilising audio and visual cues. By combining linguistic insights with ...read more
The Caribbean’s early newspaper press remains curiously absent from histories of colonial print, despite the region’s centrality to imperial expansion. This project addresses this gap by turning to newspapers printed ...read more
Chemical substances make up the world around us, including ourselves. Whether we are frying food, fertilising soil, or simply breathing, we are actors in a chemical world, changing chemical environments ...read more
Until recently, the study of the mystical literature produced at the Augustinian canonry of Groenendaal (near Brussels), whose texts helped shape the mystical climate of the fourteenth-century Low Countries, has ...read more
"All the world is on stage" investigates how Amsterdam’s seventeenth-century theatre was materially and socially entangled in the emerging Dutch colonial project. While previous scholarship has focused on plays, texts, ...read more
This project seeks to drop new lines in the water of environmental history to ‘catch’ how ordinary people developed an ecological awareness of their own during the industrialisation of nineteenth-century ...read more