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
My PhD research project focuses on the circulation and practice of Buddhism in Turfan around the 5th century. I am interested in how Buddhism in the region was formed/re-formed by ...read more
This project aims at documenting the endangered BIYO language (Hani group of the Lolo-Burmese language family), spoken by ethnic minorities in scattered locations of Southwestern Yunnan Province of China. Nowadays, ...read more
This project will study gender relations and monsters in Oromo oral narratives, both as a way to map the gender-stereotypical discourse inherent in the narratives as well as the potentiality ...read more
Indian upland forest-dwellers – like many other indigenous communities around the globe – are under threat from resource extraction, agricultural development and de-forestation as are the material remains of their ...read more
The Apennine mountain chain in Italy is often described as a crossroads of cultures during the pre-Roman Metal Ages (ca. 3000-300 BC), but archaeologists know little about how, why and ...read more
The research project Hive Mind proposes a community- and institution-based approach to the study of early modern women and of their contributions to the arts and culture of the Low Countries. ...read more
Mahayana Buddhism has its own viewpoints on sexuality, birth, death, and religious practices. Some topics have been discussed extensively, such as “Buddhist perspectives on same-sex marriage”, “Buddhist attitudes toward the ...read more
Bodhgaya in eastern India is the site of the Mahabodhi temple and it has long been recognised as the place where the Buddha sat in meditation under the Bodhi tree ...read more
Left dislocation (LD) patterns consist of a topic and a comment which says something about the topic. The comment usually contains a resumptive element ('they' in (1), referring to 'the ...read more