My PhD research project focuses on the relationship between Buddhism and kingship in the Northern Liang (北涼; 397-460), a regional regime located in the Hexi Corridor in the Sixteen Kingdoms ...read more
This project proposes a historical and systematic study of German and French intellectual projects between 1870 and 1940 labelled 'Philosophy of Life,' 'Biological Philosophy,' and 'Philosophical Anthropology.' The core hypothesis ...read more
PhiSci develops a novel framework to understand how philology – the historical study of text and language – once reigned as ‘queen of the sciences.’ This project pioneers a new ...read more
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates ...read more
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates ...read more
The project ‘Records of Resistance’ transcends the commonplace victim-perpetrator binary to describe wartime agency by shedding light on the ambiguities of civilian participation in armed conflict. More precisely, it investigates ...read more
People are equal before the law. This principle is strongly embedded in the judicial doctrine of the Enlightenment, and also in the liberal Belgian constitution. In practice, however, the justice ...read more
Belgium was one of the most devastated and looted countries at the end of the First World War. Yet the interwar period started with the optimistic notion of progress that ...read more
The main objective of this research is the flying figures (generally subsumed under the term feitian 飛天 in Chinese sources) in the grottoes of the Northern Wei Dynasty, focusing on the three main royal grottoes, ...read more