For many years there have been discussions about how exactly Immanuel Kant’s categories of quantity should be derived from the quantitative forms of judgment. This research proposal aims to connect ...read more
This project studies the role of the child (defined as younger than 18) from a sensorial perspective in a transnational corpus of contemporary literature on the US-Mexican border. Between 2006 ...read more
Genialität und Virtuosität sind (schon der Etymologie nach) in der (deutschen) Literatur- und Kunstgeschichte stark mit Männlichkeit verknüpft, während weibliche Abweichung von der Norm nur in beschränktem Maße gewürdigt bzw. ...read more
This research project explores how (popular) music artists disclose public identities incorporating elements of their quotidian precarious identity in an era of social media. It departs from the contemporary performance artists Ivo Dimchev ...read more
The proposed project aims to determine the origins and diachronic development of “genitive of negation” (GenNeg) in Germanic, and to evaluate its relationship with GenNeg as found in Balto-Slavic and Balto-Finnic languages from ...read more
This project is aimed at the investigation of horizontal links in two clusters of constructions featuring the auxiliarized Dutch verbs komen ‘to come’ and krijgen ‘to get, receive’. Horizontal links, ...read more
This research aims at a critical review of the early silver metal extraction process in a proto-industrial context in order to gain a better insight into the ancient large-scale silver production ...read more
Agricultural development in Belgian Congo has so far been understudied, especially in comparison to the French and British African empires. This project wants to use the case of scientific parastatal ...read more
This project aims to recover Gothic texts authored by Scottish and Irish female writers in the Romantic Period (1780-1830). It examines how these authors engage with questions of national and cultural ...read more
Throughout history, artists have been captivated by the characters of classical mythology. As the youngest of the arts, one of the most lucrative contemporary entertainment industries and an influential socio-cultural ...read more