This project will explore the Jewish literary production from the early Mamluk period. Its aim is to advance our knowledge of this research field by conducting a literary and contextual ...read more
This research project investigates the influence of political and literary romanticism on the literary works of early 20th century Chinese authors, in particular of Lu Xun.read more
This project is an investigation on the maritime history of late imperial China. Underwater archaeology is a relatively new field in the study of East Asia’s history and has repeatedly ...read more
This is a study on the concept of 'good doctor' in the earliest Chinese medical treatises, and an assessment of the position of the art of medicine in traditional Chinese ...read more
Although in origin two different trends within Buddhism, Wei-xin and Jing-tu gradually influenced each other and merged into a new concept in Chinese Buddhism. This researchproject is an investigationinto this ...read more
This project is an investigation into the development of Chinese Buddhism during the Republican Era (1911-1949), an era in which European modernization entered the Chinese philosophical world.read more
The Geotechnics and archaeological prospection project (IWT n° 150265 in cooperation with Geosonda bvba) aims at integrating geotechnical investigation methods such as cone penetration testing and mechanical core sampling in ...read more
Retranslation, in its double sense of “the act of translating a work that has previously been translated into the same language” and “the result of such an act, i.e. the ...read more
The project has two main aims. The first is to lay the conceptual groundwork for a formal account that allows for the explication and evaluation of actual reasoning processes ...read more
The aim of this research project is to gain novel musicological insights into a large dataset of music from Central Africa. While practicing ethnomusicological research on this dataset, we develop ...read more