Transnational impostures are acts of deception that occur across linguistic and cultural borders. In the Romantic period—roughly, the 1790s through 1830s—, these were abundantly present and attracted great interest. The ...read more
This project examines how contemporary Anglophone novels portray plants as dynamic, entangled beings living in and affected by environmental change, crisis, and biodiversity loss. I study how fiction can, on the one ...read more
In Greek Genesis, pragmatic linguistic variation can be identified by analyzing how particular variables are rendered. This project identifies variables through the text’s relationship to its Hebrew source: a Hebrew ...read more
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as an essential technology of contemporary geopolitical power, with nations framing its development as an indispensable tool for future prosperity (Bareis & Katzenbach, 2022). This ...read more
Sun Shuwei is a scholar of Chinese philosophy and is currently a joint PhD student at the Department of Languages and Cultures, Ghent University and the School of Chinese Classics, ...read more
This study centers on the Three Commentaries on the Spring and Autumn Annals—the Zuo Zhuan, the Gongyang Zhuan, and the Guliang Zhuan. It aims to systematically analyze their conceptual framework regarding war and to ...read more
My research focuses on women’s rights organizations in early twentieth-century China, especially the suffrage movements of the 1910s and 1920s. Using newspapers, women’s journals, and organizational documents, I study how ...read more
My research topic is a comparative study of Zhu Xi and Lu Jiuyuan's theories of Mind. The study aims to examine the similarities and differences between their philosophies from the perspectives of theories of mind, ritual ...read more
In Dutch studies, there is renewed debate about the relevance and applicability of Pierre Bourdieu’s sociological thinking for understanding contemporary developments in Dutch literature. This research project takes up Bourdieu’s ...read more