The proposed study region, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxemburg and France, belongs during the Bronze Age to an area of contact between different cultural complexes. Its western part was integrated in ...read more
The cluster “Multicultural Dunhuang: Manuscripts and Paintings” examines the connections between Dunhuang manuscripts and paintings, particularly during the tenth century. A central aim of the project is to bring together ...read more
As a consequence of the deteriorating mental health situation, there is a growing interest in psychotherapies and counseling in China. Following the global indigenization movement starting in the early 1980s, ...read more
Through studies of material culture and the distribution of material remains, archaeology has a large potential to substantially contribute to the debate on how past economies functioned and evolved over ...read more
The Romans were the first to introduce communal bathing habits in northern Gaul (modern Belgium, Northern France and part of the Netherlands). These highly technological and richly decorated bathhouses were ...read more
Multidisciplinary and diacronich project which aim is to reconstruct the physical evolution of the landscape around Ravenna (Italy) since the Roman Age until today and how this influenced the human ...read more
This five-year project aims to generate a paradigm shift in the understanding of Graeco-Roman and Late Antique communication. Non-literary, ‘documentary’ texts from Ancient Egypt such as letters, petitions and contracts ...read more
Over the past fifty years, funding agencies have come to occupy a central place in academic knowledge-production. As distributors of money, power, and prestige, funding agencies can nowadays change fields, ...read more
If we ask you what we inherited from the Italian Renaissance, your thoughts will possibly run to the artworks that fascinate scholars and students all around the world. But, along ...read more