This interdisciplinary project aims at investigating climate variability on a local/regional level and its impact on human lifeways at the transition from the Pleistocene (Younger Dryas) to the Early Holocene in the Meuse ...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
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
In Hundred Days' Reform (1898), Liang Qichao梁启超came acquainted with the concept of Asianism, and his motivation was to reform the Chinese political system. This article tells the story of Liang ...read more
Tijdens de late negentiende eeuw waren Japanse kimono’s geliefde kamerjassen en veel theejaponnen verwezen naar de oudheid, middeleeuwen of achttiende eeuw. Paradoxaal genoeg werd deze dameskleding, die verre oorden en ...read more
During the late nineteenth century, kimonos were favoured dressing gowns and many tea-gowns contained elements inspired by Antiquity, the Middle Ages or the eighteenth century. Paradoxically, these female garments evoking ...read more
The late Qing Reformists were a Chinese political faction that advocated for a transition from monarchy to constitutional monarchy in the 1890s, and rose to prominence by leading the Hundred ...read more
This project examines interpreting practices in marriage fraud investigations conducted by Belgian authorities, in which a complex chain of interviews and reports results in the decision whether a transnational couple's ...read more
If philology was queen of the sciences in the 19th century, this project surveys her kingdom. PhiQoS examines its fields, labourers, and idols, its modes of exchange and structures of organisation, as ...read more
In the face of planetary-wide anthropogenic change, new knowledge and methods are required to better grasp how human and nonhuman actors have contributed to global socio-environmental transformations of rural landscapes. ...read more