The proposed project deals with the imagery of Brahma in Chinese Buddhism. As one of the Buddhist deities, Brahma appears in a wealth of artwork in different regions of Asia. ...read more
This project maps the mental representation of pluricentricity in the Dutch language area by empirically studying perceptions of and attitudes towards national grammatical and lexical variation. It will address the ...read more
Although research in the last thirty years has offered more and more insight on the first archaic human presence in Eurasia, the research on the Lower Paleolithic in Belgium seems ...read more
The project will investigate the phenomenon of transnationalism in the late 1960s and 1970s by focusing on the cultural exchange between Argentina and Belgium and the subsequent cross-border activities of ...read more
The resurgence of identity politics in India has deeply polarised public discourse between a fundamental clash of cultures and a liberal, pluralistic view of society. Behind the present deadlock is ...read more
This project focuses on an interdisciplinary, ethnographic study of organic pesticide production (pyrethrum) in Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. Pyrethrum is a pesticide component derived from the chrysanthemum plant species. The yellow ...read more
In this ongoing publication project, I am dealing with the authors of colloquial poetry that arose in the course of the Egyptian revolution in 2011. It has evolved on the ...read more
The OriKunda project (PI Rozenn Guérois) aims at revising the history of the Chikunda people and language from the origins to the present day, through historical linguistics, anthropological linguistics, ...read more
In this project we seek to study human/non-human interaction in the case of Oromo fables told during oral performance, focusing in particular on the interactions between different creatures, entities and forces, how ...read more