This project offers a re-interpretation of hagiography as an instrument for translocal community building and networking in the Long Tenth Century (c. 880–1030). In the traditional view, the genre's dominance in this ...read more
Bésɨro and Bolivian Guaraní are two communities in Bolivia that share a history of forced migrations and, to this day, face linguistic and cultural erasure. However, they adopted opposite survival ...read more
This research project concerns the formation of Buddhist initiation ritual practices in medieval China, focusing primarily on images on murals and in manuscripts that have been discovered in the region ...read more
In the history of ancient Chinese thought, bide 比德 initially existed as a universal mode of thinking with anthropological significance, referring to the association of certain human behaviors or concepts with the characteristics ...read more
The aim of the NEMIC project is to generate region-specific insights into cultural variation among the first farming communities in what is now Belgium. This will be achieved through a ...read more
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
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