This project will investigate how and to what exent ‘pragmatic literacy’ — or the competences of reading and writing required to develop and run an administration based on written documents — ...read more
COURAGE (Cultural opposition. Understanding the cultural heritage of dissent in the former socialist countries) is a three-year international research project funded by Horizon 2020, the EU Framework Programme for Research and ...read more
What was the social structure of pre-Roman communities in Central-Adriatic Italy? Cemeteries suggest that a strong social hierarchy developed during the Bronze and Iron Ages (ca. 2000-400 BC), yet settlements ...read more
Political contention over food scarcity during World War I gave rise to the “Profiteering Acts”. In doing so, stately actors tried to preserve their monopoly of punishment by integrating popular anger towards ...read more
Yoga, as other new spiritual and well-being practices, has gained a lot in popularity in Western Europe, especially among women. This research project concerns an ethnographic study of yogic women ...read more
The aim of this project is to understand how professional translators deal with cognates, compared to natural bilinguals and novice translators, taking into account account the specific training of professional ...read more
To answer the questions that I am posing (who was Thekla in the Slavic tradition? How important was her cult within this tradition?) I intend to gather the whole hagiographical ...read more
This project aims to examine the linguistic and discursive practices in marriage fraud investigationsin different municipalities in Brussels where a complex chain of interviews and reports results inthe categorisation of ...read more
The aim of this project is to develop the first comprehensive study of the economic role of the Old Babylonian temples as institutions and their evolving relation with the Palace ...read more