Forged paintings pose an urgent challenge to international law enforcement agencies and the art world. Both the quantity and the quality of the works are alarming. In practice, however, this type ...read more
Scholarship on the no-self (anātman) doctrine in Buddhism has predominantly focused on the Indian context, often overlooking significant variations within the history of Chinese Buddhism. This may due to scholars’ ...read more
Amid ongoing global crises such as war, genocide, and gender-based violence, forced displacement continues to drive individuals across borders, with many seeking refuge in South Africa since 1994. Despite the ...read more
This project examines intra- and inter-speaker variation in Arabic during interpreter-mediated encounters in Brussels, where linguistic diversity poses significant communication challenges. The study focuses on the cross-dialectal accommodation strategies employed ...read more
This project aims at offering a fresh study of public generosity and benefactors in the late Roman period in the Eastern Mediterranean as a way to advance three key debates which feature prominently ...read more
This project focuses on modeling emotional states in multimodal conversations by integrating information from text, audio, and visual modalities. The core hypothesis is that different modalities may convey the same, ...read more
Chariton’s “Callirhoe” is likely the earliest of the so-called ancient Greek novels, composed around the 1st century CE. Scholarly consensus claims it left little trace in later literature and was ...read more
During the Post-Classical period (III BC - VI AD), Greek underwent significant changes in relation to its case-system, among which the development of the genitive case. Despite the importance of ...read more
Understanding how speakers perceive and evaluate language has long been a central challenge in historical sociolinguistics. Grammars and lexica provide a unique window into these perceptions. In addition to documenting ...read more
This project examines strategies of marriage and succession among social elites, as well as their impact on the political structures in the counties of Flanders and Hainaut during the 11th ...read more