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
My doctoral research focuses on the thought of Yin Changheng (1884–1953), particularly his ontology, interpretations of Chinese classics, and religious thought. Through this study, I explore the reconstruction and transformation ...read more
My doctoral research focuses on the thought of Yin Changheng (1884–1953), particularly his ontology, interpretations of Chinese classics, and religious thought. Through this study, I explore the reconstruction and transformation ...read more
This doctoral research investigates the Praśnavyākaraṇasūtra, the tenth Jain Āṅga text composed in Ardhamāgadhī Prakrit, with a focus on its grammatical structures and linguistic tendencies. While the text has been ...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
This project area is dedicated to the memory of decolonisation in French and francophone Algerian novels on the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962), their translations into German and their circulation ...read more
Episodes of the Buddha’s life are portrayed at the Dunhuang grottoes either as large-scale separate murals or as small vignettes painted in an illustration of the sutra. For a long ...read more
In the history of ancient Chinese thought, bide 比德 initially existed as a universal mode of thinking with anthropological significance, referring to the association of certain human behaviors or concepts with the characteristics ...read more