Notwithstanding that medieval gender history focusing on women’s engagement with power has flourished as an academic field since the 1980s, it still shows important lacunas in the assessment of aristocratic women’s diplomatic roles ...read more
The Apennine mountain chain in Italy is often described as a crossroads of cultures during the pre-Roman Metal Ages (ca. 3000-300 BC), but archaeologists know little about how, why and ...read more
As narrators of stories about the nation, news media are central actors in the construction of modern national identities. Despite their relevance for political history and current socio-political debates, media discourses ...read more
This project investigates how healthism, belonging, and empowerment are articulated and embodied by Les Mills instructors. The study also explores how current normative societal ideologies are mirrored, reproduced, and contested ...read more
My project is the first large-scale investigation of concessive conditionals (CCs) from the perspective of usage-based CxG. CCs are basically conditionals whose consequent holds under a range of antecedent values. ...read more
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, ...read more
The progress made in the fields of technology, information theory, computational modeling, and immersive multisensory displays put the notion of the body as archive in a new perspective, especially as ...read more
The research object of the project consists of the Dunhuang documents related to the planetary deities and the belief in the planetary deities in the Dunhuang area in Medieval China. ...read more
Recent scholarship in the history of analytical philosophy has revealed that the conceptions of logic held by Frege, (early) Russell, and (early) Wittgenstein differ in crucial aspects from those that ...read more
EU legislation (notably Directive 2010/64/EU) determines the right to a fair trial, which implies that accused persons who do not understand the language of the criminal proceedings should be provided ...read more