My research project aims to trace the social histories of the Bhagavad Gītā from the centuries just prior to colonialism in North India to the 18th and the 19th centuries. ...read more
By the end of the ninth century CE, vernacular languages had definitively replaced Latin in everyday oral interactions throughout the Carolingian world. However, Latin remained by and large dominant in ...read more
This ENLIGHT workshop, coordinated by Dr. Miglena Dikova-Milanova (Ghent University), brought together scholars from Ghent University, the University of Tartu, and the University of Göttingen. Building on a prior lecture ...read more
The AI Navigators project aims to boost AI literacy among teachers from North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, and Belgium. The initiative seeks to cultivate an innovative, AI-friendly environment, shaping future ...read more
This project challenges traditional narratives of a unilateral flow of expert meteorological knowledge to a passive public in 19th-century Belgium. The research consists of four goals. First, it interrogates how ...read more
Disaster distortion occurs when catastrophic events dominate fictional representations of climate change. This distortion overshadows the slower, systemic forms of environmental violence that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations and makes it more ...read more
This project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in this ...read more
Bésɨro and Bolivian Guaraní are two communities in Bolivia that share a history of forced migrations and, to this day, face linguistic and cultural erasure. However, they adopted opposite survival ...read more
This research project concerns the formation of Buddhist initiation ritual practices in medieval China, focusing primarily on images on murals and in manuscripts that have been discovered in the region ...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