This PhD explores the historical-sociolinguistic components of the OriKunda ANR project (PI Rozenn Guérois), which aims at revising the history of the Chikunda people and language from the ...read more
This project examines how Middle Chinese Buddhist texts contributed to the grammaticalization of modal expressions in Middle Chinese, with a particular focus on “peripheral” modal markers whose diachronic trajectories have ...read more
This project focuses on an interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Pyrethrum is a pesticide component derived from the chrysanthemum plant species. The yellow ...read more
Edger Rutatola designed and obtained a South Initiative on the Internet of Things (SI-VLIRUOS) and related International Training Program (ITP-VLIRUOS) and eventually a four year TEAM project within VLIRUOS to conduct ...read more
Sabbatical stay: The VLIRUOS-EI completed at University of Guyana in 2013 and supervised by Koen Abts, Koen Stroeken en Patrick Vander Weyden, which resulted in the PhD of Troy Thomas, provided a database of ongoing ...read more
The focus of my doctoral research contains post-phenonomenology, the philosophy of sexuality and its concepts on sexual technology. My aim is to conceptualize the phenomenon of sexbots and its possibility ...read more
Elective Egg Freezing (EEF) provides women with the possibility to delay childbearing and still have a genetically related child. This project aims to contribute ethnographic insights from India - an Asian lower-middle-income country ...read more
This project explores the use of space, place, and landscape in a group of historical narratives of the late eleventh and early twelfth century Byzantium, a time of immense territorial ...read more
This projects fits within the vast body on politeness research, but focuses on one specific politeness strategy in Spanish, namely the speech act of apologizing. Although a large number of ...read more