Although wallpaper defines the living environment of so many people, this type of wall finish is often criticised. During the interwar period, when ‘the art of living’ became an important ...read more
Indian dances have since long inspired women around the world, not only increasing the international success of staged performances, but also inspiring large numbers of Euro-American women to learn and/or ...read more
In the beginning history was “political history”. The insight that the subjects of governmental rule, ordinary people, could act politically themselves is relatively new however. Acting on this insight, historians ...read more
This network funding will increase opportunities for scholarly engagement in a number of ways. Postdoctoral fellows will be employed to increase the offerings of courses related to Buddhism, and eminent ...read more
In 1529, the Order of the Knights of St John accepted the offer of a Mediterranean base from Charles V and relocated to the islands of the Maltese archipelago. During ...read more
The aim of my research is to bridge the gap between research into so-called translation universals (explicitation, implicitation, interference and shining-through) in the domain of corpus translation studies and, on ...read more
This research project investigates the influence of political and literary romanticism on the literary works of early 20th century Chinese authors, in particular of Lu Xun.read more
This project is an investigation into the development of Chinese Buddhism during the Republican Era (1911-1949), an era in which European modernization entered the Chinese philosophical world.read more
This project aims to investigate the development of non-canonical case marking of subjects/subject-likes, throughout the history of the Germanic languages, contributing with data from Germanic vernaculars. Lexical semantic verb classes ...read more
This project studies the logic of constructing cosmopolitan subjectivity in a selection of plays written by immigrant artists and plays written about migration since 2000. Specifically, it focuses on plays ...read more