The purpose of this project is to perform a semantic and etymological study of the Greek verb ἀραρίσκω ‘to adapt’ and its cognates. The origin of the word, i.e. its ...read more
In the nineteenth century, public art exhibitions became the main place where artists could show and sell their work to the public. The Paris Salon is particularly well known, but ...read more
My research project investigates top-down strategies—a series of measures initiated by President Vladimir Putin and implemented by the state apparatus—in which Russia’s literary heritage was utilized both as an instrument ...read more
This research project will study how political order and historical truth were jointly constructed in the late medieval Middle East. It will look in particular at how contemporary Islamic scholars/historians ...read more
The principal aim of this research project is to compare the predominant concepts of the Ottoman and Burgundian political discourse in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Even though reciprocal ...read more
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