This project proposal seeks to bridge significant gaps in the understanding of Migration or Integration Language Tests (MILTs) by scrutinizing their rationale, construction, operationalization, and impact within the contexts of migration and ...read more
Chiquitano/Bésɨro and Guarayo 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 strategies: ...read more
Historic feminists have become lightning rods for heated contemporary debates around questions of gender-identity, intersectionality, and consent. Figures from the Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) of the 1960s and 1970s are ...read more
By analyzing coin production and leveraging a key discovery that enables tracking die engravers across multiple reigns, it will provide insights into issues of succession, co-rule, and conflict. In turn, ...read more
This FWO senior research 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 ...read more
By the end of the ninth century CE, vernacular languages had definitively replaced Latin in everyday oral interactions throughout the Carolingian world. However, Latin remained by and large dominant in ...read more
This dissertation investigates the significance, characteristics, evolution, and hermeneutics of the doctrine of “non-self” (Skt. anātman; Ch. wuwo 無我) in Ming-dynasty Buddhism, with a focus on the deeply influential monk ...read more
This interdisciplinary research examines the design and dressing of fashion dolls as forms of queer aesthetic labor, enabling new aesthetic possibilities to envision gendered bodies in contemporary fashion. This research seeks to answer how the interaction between the doll, maker, and dresser ...read more
The Anyue Buddhist 安岳 sites can be mainly dated between the Tang (618–907) and the Ming (1368–1644) dynasties and consist of locations of great importance when studying Buddhism in the Sichuan ...read more
The doctoral research consists of an empirical and normative analysis of two specific forms of science communication practices regarding evolving and uncertain scientific topics. The first one is a public ...read more