This project will analyse the last revival of Manichaeism in the Eastern Mediterranean and the imperial persecution that seems to produce its disappearance from the region in the 6th century. ...read more
Central Africa’s Congo-Ubangi watershed spans multiple ecozones in the northern margins of the rainforest. It is a major hotbed of linguistic, cultural and human genetic diversity with deep occupation history. ...read more
My PhD-project combines a corpus and historical-comparative linguistic approach to the conjoint/disjoint alternation in West Highland Bantu, a group of closely related languages from the Great Lakes region of Eastern ...read more
This research project addresses the inadequately studied phonetic and phonological features of the "entre Congo-Ubangi" sector of Africa's Macro-Sudan Belt, in northwestern Democratic Republic of Congo. The "entre Congo-Ubangi", rich ...read more
Crisis communication research has resulted in a set of evidence-based guidelines that describe how an organization should communicate with the public during a crisis. As such, organizations are recommended to ...read more
This research explores the core question of anthropology since its very outset: what does it mean to be human? It investigates how intellectuals in Arab countries have addressed the common ...read more
VIOLENCE WORK is a groundbreaking study of everyday violence in Belgian Central Africa—Burundi, Congo, and Rwanda (19th-20th C). Though colonial violence has been studied widely, few have explored how everyday ...read more
This project analyzes the interactions between religion and cultural heritage in twentieth century Japan as a venue to investigate the legacy of imperialism in the construction of modern ideas and ...read more
The political economies of the states of Southeast Europe after the Second World War were shaped by the doctrine of development. In the long term and from a global perspective, ...read more
Women translators often face a dual invisibility, marginalised both as translators and as women. The lack of academic attention for their valuable contributions and their underestimated influence on translated literature ...read more