This project examines nationalizations in the copper industry in Latin America and Africa in the 1960s-70s, which involved some of the largest business expropriations in modern history. While ...read more
Until now, the study of travel writing has mostly focused on the visual ‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding neglect of non-visual sensations, this project ...read more
This project will study gender relations and ogres in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
Research conducted in the context of the current conservation/restoration project of Jan van Eyck’s Ghent Altarpiece and in preparation of our recent exhibition ‘Van Eyck: an Optical ...read more
the main objective of this research project is to study the litigation strategies of merchants in the context of the law of commerce in fifteenth-century Bruges (and, in so far ...read more
The COVID-19 crisis made the demand for remote interpreting, especially remote interpreting by videolink, particularly acute. This action research project, situated in the context of asylum and migration, investigates the ...read more
The proposed project focuses on Chinese Buddhism on Mt. Jiuhua in the Mao era (1949–1978), especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) when the persecution of Buddhism was in full swing. ...read more
To fully understand the long development of the form-function pairings involved in the Latin tenses, we must view them as part of a system - a system that relates to ...read more
Indian upland forest-dwellers – like many other indigenous communities around the globe – are under threat from resource extraction, agricultural development and de-forestation as are the material remains of their ...read more
Bodhgaya in eastern India is the site of the Mahabodhi temple and it has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree ...read more