In the second half of the twentieth century, Dutch authors such as Gerard Reve, Frans Kellendonk, Jan Siebelink and Désanne Van Brederode adopted an idiosyncratic stance toward the Christian tradition. ...read more
This project investigates how Chinese Buddhist translations shaped the grammaticalization of modal and quasi-modal expressions in Middle Chinese. Rather than treating Buddhist texts as passive transmitters of linguistic change, the ...read more
This PhD project explores the interplay between travel, translation, heritage and memory through a study of a 13th-century Chinese travel writing of Cambodia—the only surviving eyewitness account of heyday Angkor ...read more
Cartoons have been a particularly resilient popular cultural product capturing and shaping the zeitgeist. The term ‘cartoon’was coined by the British Punch (1841-1992, 1996-2002) magazine which played a key role in the birth ...read more
Despite Dutch's dominant status in Suriname, being the official language of administration since 1876 and the reported primary household language of two thirds of the population (according to the 2012 ...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
Most philosophical approaches to the political value of art only consider art in general, as an abstract concept. New and experimental art, of which the character and purpose are not ...read more
The Middle Bronze Age in Crete is a period of demographic expansion, stunning material cultural production, and growing interaction with the broader Eastern Mediterranean. The archaeological deposits associated with this ...read more
The aim of the project is to contribute to a novel model of turn-taking in dialogue interpreting (DI) by offering an analysis in terms of ‘cognition for interaction’ (Levinson 2015). ...read more
While the term 'microbiome' wasn't popularised until the mid-late twentieth century, the discovery of gut microflora can be traced back to the nineteenth century. By the Fin de Siècle, medical ...read more