The necrodialogue is an anthropological need that finds expression in ritualistic and artistic representations. Inherent to this dialogue is the use of personal intermediaries and technical media to establish contact. We know that ...read more
This project is about cross-disciplinary (CD) knowledge-generation processes. Research is CD when it combines different disciplines. In the past decades, CD research has gained the interest of research policy makers ...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
In the translation industry, improving machine translation (MT) output by post-editing is commonly used to increase productivity and consistency. However, some research showed that post-editing leads to homogenization and normalization. ...read more
“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
Medieval romance is arguably the most influential secular literary genre of the European Middle Ages. Its history has not been written yet. In order to enhance our understanding of this ...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
Since Google decided in 2001 to start using data logs to generate predictions about users’ click-throughs and thus about the relevance of certain advertisements for a user, the collection and ...read more
This historical sociolinguistics project analyses the usage of the unstressed personal pronouns le(s), la(s) and lo(s) in a corpus of 16th-century Andalusian texts characterised by communicative immediacy or conceptional orality ...read more
In the medieval Low Countries, the donating of devotional objects to churches and founding of liturgical ceremonies were directly linked with remembrance. The memories of ancestors remained alive through the church ...read more