This doctoral dissertation looks at the narrative fiction of Argentina's "children of the disappeared" through the lens of trauma. In Argentina, over the course of the past decades, the most ...read more
This project will provide the first comparative study of how conservative British novelists, from Walter Scott to Ford Madox Ford, participated in political debates about four major issues of ...read more
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been an explicit interest to deal with theater as a visual event. Bringing theater studies in close connection with visual studies, ...read more
The postdoctoral project aims to examine the effects of a study abroad on foreign language acquisition. More specifically, the project will investigate possible gains in the lexical and morphosyntactic knowledge ...read more
Around the sixth century BCE arose in the Indian religio-philosophical environment that was dominated by the Brahmanical tradition (the oldest form of Hinduism) the still living religious tradition of Jainism. ...read more
This project aims to study the functional range and the alternating uses of four types of presentational constructions (prosodic inversion, syntactic inversion, syntactic inversion with filler insertion and syntactic split) in ...read more
During the invasion of England by William the Conqueror in 1066, Flemings fought as mercenaries in the Norman armies. Little is known about the Flemings who, following the Norman-Conquest, settled in the ...read more
Even in our complex economy trust remains a central prerequisite for social exchange (reciprocal altruism). Since the outcome of non-cooperative deals might be dramatic, partners are reluctant to engage themselves ...read more
This project investigates the extent to which family relations, and more specifically ties of descent, formed a constitutive part of personal and social identity. Traditionally, Roman society has been seen ...read more
The project aims at analyzing the relationship between the technical properties of flint artefacts from various prehistoric sites in the Scheldt valley and the origin and weathering of micro wear ...read more