The aim of this project is to study the ethical and political presuppositions of public forms of historical representation. I will do this by focusing on three important ways in ...read more
More research in palliative care is urgently needed, but research in this field remains highly sensitive as it often involves doing research on palliative and/or dying patients or their relatives. ...read more
This project aims to test Berent’s thesis of the Greek polis as a ‘stateless society’. If ‘the’ polis functioned as a stateless society, the absence of a state coercive apparatus ...read more
This project researches the relations between literature, gender and technology in the works of three early twentieth-century British women writers: Bryher (pseudonym of Annie Winifred Ellerman), Mina Loy and Nancy ...read more
This comparative study of the relations of care of (1) transnational adoptees and their adoptive parents, (2) unaccompanied refugee minors and their guardians and (3) children in domestic foster care ...read more
This project is concerned with complex predicates, i.e. constructions that, in spite of being structurally and conceptually composed of two sub-events, essentially denote one unified event by means of ...read more
Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) prospection is, along with magnetometer prospection, earth resistance survey and prospection with sensors based on electromagnetic induction, one of the most widely used geophysical prospection techniques ...read more
The project traced the historical development of the ‘conditional’ use of modal verbs in the West Germanic (WG) languages, seen in 'If there should be a problem/Should there be a problem, don’t ...read more
This research project intends a structural analysis of business networks in Roman long-distance trade. While an integral part of economic history in other pre-industrial societies, the application of network theory ...read more