SHIP is an ”Internationalisation in the Humanities project” aimed at a comparative history of health and disease in European port cities, 1850-1950. Port cities in the past acted as ‘gateways ...read more
This project studies the modernist poetry anthology in relation to the modernist magazine to shed new light on the formation of a modernist tradition. It examines a corpus of serially ...read more
A striking feature of Ptolemaic rule in Egypt (305–30 BC) is the apparent extent of state controland intervention in industry and trade. A multitude of state-imposed rules and regulations can ...read more
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
This project investigates how modern Chinese Islamic thinkers accommodated the novel category of "religion" and renegotiated the position of Islam in twentieth-century and contemporary China by studying the complex relations ...read more
The practice of divination in Buddhism traces its roots to India. However, the mutual engagements between medieval Chinese Buddhism and the practice of divination were deeper than the case in ...read more
This joint research project deals with the negotiation of colonial hygiene by “expert” actors in (transnational) networks with a focus on the Belgian context between the first Leopoldian expeditions in ...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