This project examines conviviality as an everyday practice of bridging religious and cultural difference from the perspective of Muslim minorities in Belgium. It aims to reveal the modalities in which ...read more
INEQKILL focuses on a crucial dimension of inequality in society, the disparity in death, coined ‘ultimate inequality’. The COVID-19 pandemic has incited renewed interest into infectious diseases as potential drivers of social ...read more
The Southern African linguistic landscape is dominated by Bantu languages, which form Africa’s largest language family and are spoken by the vast majority of Southern Africans. Nonetheless, the first Bantu-speaking communities ...read more
The project investigates the fundamental philosophical and ethical concepts that influenced Kauṭilya and their impact on the social and political realm as reflected in the treatise “Arthaśāstra” (1- 2nd cent. ...read more
This project investigates alternating predicates in Romanian (Ma enerveaza atitudinea lui, lit. me.ACC irritates attitude.the.NOM his vs. Atitudinea lui ma enerveaza, lit. attitude.the.NOM his me.ACC irritates), and their evolution over ...read more
Memory scholars have been criticising the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the 20th century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more
Jainism, an Indian born religion, is one of the oldest religions in the world. In history, the organizational development, religious characteristics, and practice methods of Jainism are closely related to ...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
Sheldon Pollock’s influential theories on the cosmopolitan and ‘secular’ nature of Sanskrit literature and the vernacularisation of regional Indian literatures as top-down processes which originate in royal courts do not ...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