After Vladimir Putin’s re-election to the presidency in 2012, the ideological opacity of the previous two decades gives way to a putinist configuration of conservative communitarianism and populism. The translation ...read more
Using the lens of the cattle frontier in Madagascar in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, this project explores the transformation of livestock production, pastoralist societies, imperial economies and animal ...read more
This project investigates the formative phase of Chan/Zen 禪 historiography during the Tang–Song transition (ca. 750–1050), its integration into successive editions of the Chinese Buddhist canon, and its enduring impact ...read more
Networking is important, also for an artist in the 19th century. François-Joseph Navez (1787-1869), director of the Académie des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles and a neoclassical artist, developed an impressive social ...read more
Life expectancy in Western countries has increased enormously during the past two centuries. This rise was accompanied by a change in the cause-of-death pattern in which so-called degenerative diseases (cardiovascular ...read more
Research within the field of gender-fair language in multilingual contexts has until now mainly focused on translating gender in literary works and gender-inclusive language in machine translation. However, research on ...read more
During the Early and Middle-Late Holocene at least eight abrupt centennial-scale Rapid Climate Change events (RCC) have occurred, which have been globally identified by recent climate records. However, still little is ...read more
Suetonius’ treatise “On Insults" is the sole surviving ancient work on the subject of verbal abuse, yet it still lacks a proper critical edition, an extensive commentary, a translation in ...read more
MaTIAS, which stands for Machine Translation for Asylum Seekers, is a project designed to support multilingual communication in asylum reception centres in Belgium through the development of a multilingual messaging ...read more
Research on the early development of urban communities in Western Europe has long been determined by a political and institutional approach of the liberties, laws and customs these communities were ...read more