This research projects aims to understand the causal mechanisms which facilitated the resilience and survival of a large pre-Modern imperial state in Europe and the Mediterranean World by focusing on ...read more
This research project engages artists and experts from diverse fields in hydro-ecological research. The aim is to provide multiple perspectives on hydrological matters of concern. Drawing on Bruno Latour’s political ...read more
The proposed project aims to investigate the new generation of moral education textbooks in Japan (in use since 2018) and their intended effects against the backdrop of a larger political ...read more
Friendship remains a surprisingly understudied topic, particularly in non-Western contexts, even less so concerning the Middle East and North African (MENA) region. Furthermore, when investigated, there has been little attention ...read more
Current scholarship pays little attention to late Etruscan social structures (post-400 BCE), when Etruscans are assumed to have increasingly modelled themselves on Rome. Existing scholarship often argues that pre-400 BCE, ...read more
My research project aims to trace the social histories of the Bhagavad Gītā from the centuries just prior to colonialism in North India to the 18th and the 19th centuries. ...read more
This ENLIGHT workshop, coordinated by Dr. Miglena Dikova-Milanova (Ghent University), brought together scholars from Ghent University, the University of Tartu, and the University of Göttingen. Building on a prior lecture ...read more
The AI Navigators project aims to boost AI literacy among teachers from North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Serbia, and Belgium. The initiative seeks to cultivate an innovative, AI-friendly environment, shaping future ...read more
This project challenges traditional narratives of a unilateral flow of expert meteorological knowledge to a passive public in 19th-century Belgium. The research consists of four goals. First, it interrogates how ...read more
Disaster distortion occurs when catastrophic events dominate fictional representations of climate change. This distortion overshadows the slower, systemic forms of environmental violence that disproportionately affect vulnerable populations and makes it more ...read more