Beginning with the premise that literature offers a space for negotiating the kinds of complexity that often attend sensitive socio-cultural issues, this project explores moments of human-animal, or interspecies, ambiguity ...read more
The Flemish super divers society, as a diaspora mosaic and the successive migration flows are mirrored in the class rooms. Diversity in education, more specifically in history classes, challenges the ...read more
The ERC Consolidator project DAEDALOS aims to challenge the predominant metanarrative that uniformly sees monuments as an attribute of centralised, hierarchical political economies and top-down power structures, a view that ...read more
Regional pronunciations can result from the phonological contact between a standard language and its dialectal substrate. Such pronunciations might be less diversified compared to their substrate dialects, since regional varieties ...read more
Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point ...read more
Literary criticism plays an important role in the way literary works are perceived and what value is ascribed to them: it has a gatekeeping function, attributing cultural legitimacy through its ...read more
This project investigates views on the internal body in premodern Japan. In particular, the theory of the five viscera, or gozôron will be of interest. Several handwritten sources from the Edo period ...read more
The Datong Thought derived from the Book of Rites, which refers to the Datong ideal of the world as one community, the Xiaokang ideal of a prosperous society, and the Dashun ideal of seeking common ground while reserving ...read more
This project proposes to combine for the first time historical (socio)linguistics with the insights from modern psycholinguistic research to study linguistic variation in post-Classical Greek. For this purpose the study ...read more
This project is to be situated in the field of late Latin literature and focuses on the poet Maximian (6th c.AD). His corpus consists of six elegies (686 verses in total) ...read more