This research project engages artists and experts from diverse fields in hydro-ecological research. The aim is to provide multiple perspectives on hydrological matters of concern. Drawing on Bruno Latour’s political ...read more
The proposed project aims to investigate the new generation of moral education textbooks in Japan (in use since 2018) and their intended effects against the backdrop of a larger political ...read more
Current scholarship pays little attention to late Etruscan social structures (post-400 BCE), when Etruscans are assumed to have increasingly modelled themselves on Rome. Existing scholarship often argues that pre-400 BCE, ...read more
My research project aims to trace the social histories of the Bhagavad Gītā from the centuries just prior to colonialism in North India to the 18th and the 19th centuries. ...read more
This ENLIGHT workshop, coordinated by Dr. Miglena Dikova-Milanova (Ghent University), brought together scholars from Ghent University, the University of Tartu, and the University of Göttingen. Building on a prior lecture ...read more
This project challenges traditional narratives of a unilateral flow of expert meteorological knowledge to a passive public in 19th-century Belgium. The research consists of four goals. First, it interrogates how ...read more
In the history of ancient Chinese thought, bide 比德 initially existed as a universal mode of thinking with anthropological significance, referring to the association of certain human behaviors or concepts with the characteristics ...read more
The aim of the NEMIC project is to generate region-specific insights into cultural variation among the first farming communities in what is now Belgium. This will be achieved through a ...read more
Forged paintings pose an urgent challenge to international law enforcement agencies and the art world. Both the quantity and the quality of the works are alarming. In practice, however, this type ...read more
This project aims at offering a fresh study of public generosity and benefactors in the late Roman period in the Eastern Mediterranean as a way to advance three key debates which feature prominently ...read more