Modern Western psychology was first introduced to China in the 1880s. The circulation of psychology in the late Qing dynasty intertwined with religion, educational reform, and historiography, set the stage ...read more
The new political situation after 2013 has been a serious backlash for many Egyptian artists, especially those who supported the 2011 uprising or have addressed the event through their artistic ...read more
This project concerns the practice of excluding women or men from religious sites and religious practices in Japan, and the complex interconnections among religion, traditions, and cultural heritage in the ...read more
In "The Infinity of Lists", Umberto Eco contrasts two modes of artistic representation. One is bound to a definite aesthetic form. It conveys a comprehensive idea, closed on itself. The ...read more
The project "Remember Africa?” uses different types of contemporary memorial projects and narratives of individual Jains in the UK to address the experience of twice-migration and its impact upon religious ...read more
In West Tanzania, kiasili (‘natural’ or ‘original’ in Kiswahili) foods and healing practices have emerged in reaction to new foodways and the diseases they are felt to cause. New foods, ...read more
On the one hand, the past decade has witnessed a massively growing interest in Chinese LGBTQ studies from queer feminists, artists as well as scholars. While on the other hand, ...read more
The research project aims to scrutinize the interwar Russian émigré historical novel, i.e. the phenomenon itself, how it relates to émigré culture, and its relation to other (older and contemporary) ...read more
Jainism is one of the main philosophical-religious traditions of India, with a strongly recognisable identity since the teaching of the spiritual leader Mahāvīra (599-527 BCE). Today, there are six millions ...read more