Projects

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The social dynamics behind the transition to farming in the Low Countries (5th millennium BC). From pottery technology to farmer-forager interactions

2022

The Low Countries have an international reputation as an interesting case study area for the spread of agriculture among foraging populations. Over the course of the 5th millennium BC, foragers ...read more
Nothing but the truth? Rhetoric and fictionality in Ancient Greek and Latin novels

2022

Most ancient Greek and Latin novels contain trial-scenes made of ingredients similar to modern-day legal drama series, such as emotionally-charged testimonies, wrathful confrontations and sidebar talks; and during the adversarial debates, ...read more
Ancient novel
Ancient rhetoric
Antiquity
Greek
Greek novels
Language and text analysis
Late Antiquity
Latin
Latin novels
Literary studies
Narratology
Challenging and expanding the national canon. The case of Usmān’s Citrāvalī (1613) and its afterlife in India’s multilingual contexts

2022

The Indian Sufi romances (premākhyāns), written in the Avadhi language by poets with Muslim origins, are mystical narratives that have circulated across South Asia, defying literary genres and linguistic barriers. ...read more
16th Century
17th Century
18th Century
19th Century
Asia
Canonisation
Hindi
Language and text analysis
Literary canon
Literary studies
Multilingualism
Oriental languages
Religion
Storytelling
Sufism
Records of resistance. Militia governance in the valley of the Apurímac river during the Peruvian internal armed conflict (1980-2000)

2022

The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates ...read more
Digital ecopoetics. Moving beyond anthropocentrism in the contemporary French environmental novel

2022

The DigEco project will analyze a corpus of 100 environmental French novels (from 2000 to the present day) using tools and methods developed in the Digital Humanities. This innovative approach ...read more
Literary studies
Political authority and social justice. A philosophical study of Arthaśāstra

2022

The project investigates the fundamental philosophical and ethical concepts that influenced Kauṭilya and their impact on the social and political realm as reflected in the treatise “Arthaśāstra” (1- 2nd cent. ...read more
Alternating predicates in Romanian. A study of their syntactic behavior and productivity

2022

This project investigates alternating predicates in Romanian (Ma enerveaza atitudinea lui, lit. me.ACC irritates attitude.the.NOM his vs. Atitudinea lui ma enerveaza, lit. attitude.the.NOM his me.ACC irritates), and their evolution over ...read more
Language technology
Linguistics
Facing up to the dictatorial past. Cultural memory and the responsibility for fascism in post-1990 Italian literature

2022

Memory scholars have been criticising the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the 20th century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more
20th Century
Contemporary
Cultural memory
History
Italian
Language and text analysis
Literary studies
Memory studies
Southern Europe
Children’s periodicals from the Van Passen collection demanding interaction

2022

This one-year postdoctoral research project investigates how 1930s-1960s children’s periodicals from the Van Passen collection demanded their child readers to interact with their content. The hypothesis is that these periodicals opened to the ...read more
Lawyering between counselling and adjudication. A sociolinguistic ethnography of legal assistance in the Belgian asylum procedure

2022

The asylum procedure is a complex, politicized and sensitive process. It has also been described as essentially ‘discourse-based’, as the decision of whether someone is granted asylum is determined by ...read more

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