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
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
After the introduction of Carl Hempel’s Covering Law model in 1948, scientific explanation became a central topic of philosophical attention in early anglophone philosophy of science in the 1950s and ...read more
The Romans were the first to introduce communal bathing habits in northern Gaul (modern Belgium, Northern France and part of the Netherlands). These highly technological and richly decorated bathhouses were ...read more
Funded by the FNRS (PDR T.0091.16, 2016-2020) and the ULB/Brussels-Wallonia Federation (Action de recherche concertée, 2016-2019), this project sets out to describe and understand how teachers reconcile the irreconcilable: it ...read more
In the seventeenth and eighteenth century, Latin gradually lost its dominant position as a literary language in Europe. The normativity of the Classics was increasingly questioned in the literary field, ...read more
In the past three decades, developments in cognitive science and philosophy of mind have given rise to an embodied dynamicist approach to cognition, which takes cognitive systems to be dynamical ...read more
In the years surrounding the Meiji Restoration (1868), the suppression of Buddhism in favour of a Shinto-based ideology propelled Buddhist thinkers into a reactionary movement aimed at regaining a prominent ...read more