Studying the relationship between nature and human beings is one of the main propositions of Chinese philosophy. The garden is a material formation of the ideal landscape 山水, and the ...read more
Increasingly, language test scores are used to make decisions that have a fundamental impact on the lives of people, but we know little about the decision-making processes underlying these practices. ...read more
This research project focuses upon the first paintings produced by Congolese in the DR Congo just before and during the colonial era, which show the influence of contact with westerners: ...read more
In this project, I study the corpus of Byzantine hagiographies that feature a 'magos' (or magician). The goal is to produce an inventory of all hagiographical narratives in Greek which feature ...read more
In 2012 werd op een perceel direct ten zuiden van hunebedden D36/D37, de ‘Valther Tweeling’, te Valthe een noodopgraving uitgevoerd door het Groninger Instituut voor Archeologie, waarbij verschillende bodemsporen en ...read more
This research project (National Project 2021) is situated in the domain of multilingual and intercultural (digital) communication. The project aims to evaluate the multilingual Fedasil website (https://www.fedasilinfo.be/en/landingspage) through an analysis ...read more
This project examines nationalizations in the copper industry in Latin America and Africa in the 1960s-70s, which involved some of the largest business expropriations in modern history. While nationalizations have ...read more
Until now, the study of travel writing has mostly focused on the visual ‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding neglect of non-visual sensations, this project ...read more
The proposed project focuses on Chinese Buddhism on Mt. Jiuhua in the Mao era (1949–1978), especially during the Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) when the persecution of Buddhism was in full swing. ...read more