On the one hand, the past decade has witnessed a massively growing interest in Chinese LGBTQ studies from queer feminists, artists as well as scholars. While on the other hand, ...read more
The Late Glacial (c. 12,700-9700 cal BC) is the final stage of the Pleistocene before the current warm Holocene and comprises several warm (e.g. Allerød) and cold (e.g. Younger Dryas) ...read more
This project studies the letters and letter-collection of Basil, bishop of Caesarea (ca. 330-379 AD), as means for lobbying, persuasion, and self-presentation. While the letters of Basil have always been ...read more
Legacies of slavery tend to affect societies deeply, but in inland East Africa have remained little explored. This project aims [1] to establish what happened to the hundreds of thousands ...read more
This project examines a representative corpus of digital comics from a narratological perspective, analyzing the way they experiment with the possibilities offered by the digital format. This includes reflecting on the forms ...read more
Within the current field of contemporary documentary theatre, the form of the essay is rising to prominence. The nature and the purpose of the essay inspires a number of contemporary artists with ...read more
The project aims at describing interpreter-mediation in the context of police interviews that result in written records and to assess the impact of interpreter-mediation on the interview and the written ...read more
Many of the unique syntactic features of Dutch dialects spoken in Flanders only occur in very specific discourse contexts, and therefore cannot be researched using existing databases and linguistic atlases, as those ...read more
The project entails an ecopoetic inquiry into literary fiction on nature and ecology as a transcultural problem area within four interacting cultural regions (French, Germanophone, Anglophone, Italian). Central to this ...read more
Cross-linguistic comparison of language's diachronies has shown that new negators arise from an originally optional pragmatic reinforcer – i.e. an expression equivalent to ‘(not) a drop/a thing' in English. This ...read more