The imagery and rhetoric of monstrosity is conspicuous in Claudian’s poems. The poet has composed two verse accounts of the Gigantomachy, one fragmentary in Greek and one incomplete in Latin; ...read more
This dissertation will interrogate the possibilities of blending literary trauma theory with ecocriticism to arrive at a new hermeneutics for reading, where human and environmental trauma are not viewed as ...read more
This project focuses on ‘Oral Literature for Development’ (OL4D) as a new line of thinking. We introduce OL4D firmly based on the belief that culture and creativity are central for ...read more
This research project aims at analysing Oromo oral narratives from econarratological perspectives. Econarratlogy is often viewed as a new approach in literary and cultural studies in relation to the other ...read more
In this study I will focus on female oral genres in East Wollega, Ethiopia, in the context of basket production. This combined approach of tangible and intangible Oromoo heritage will lead ...read more
Nureni Aremu Bakenne's Ph.D. research is a study of empirical literature and development of newspapers among the Yoruba people of West Africa, with the main focus being Nigeria. Among other things, the ...read more
Europeans introduced the print culture to other continents. However, the Yoruba people in Nigeria used specific terms to describe modernity before the arrival of the Europeans. There is no study ...read more
This project examines residential patterns in Ghent between c. 1670 and 1850, focusing on the evolution of socioeconomic segregation. This period is especially fascinating because it covers the transition from ...read more
This project is intended to examine why people believe in a bullshit assumption or theory at the expense of reason and evidence focusing on Ethiopian experiences. Due to lack of ...read more
This project aims to provide an epistemological analysis of the practice of chemistry in different contexts in the second half of the 18th century and of the interaction between actors ...read more