This projects aims to establish a comparison between the public dance practices of the Restoration Monarchies of Prussia, Austria, the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, France and Great Britain between ...read more
This project focuses on how the cultural imagination of the loop is increasingly shaping fictional narratives in literature, film, TV series, and video games, through works that center on or ...read more
This project aims to provide an integrated account of in situ indirect questions in Hexagonal French (e.g. J’sais même pas j’suis sensé réviser quoi ‘I don’t even know I’m supposed ...read more
This project examines historical and contemporary patterns of human and non-human mobilizations that emerge when specific archival collections gain attention—earning archival value—from official institutions, professional archivists, critical scholars, and researchers. ...read more
This research projects aims to understand the causal mechanisms which facilitated the resilience and survival of a large pre-Modern imperial state in Europe and the Mediterranean World by focusing on ...read more
The proposed project aims to investigate the new generation of moral education textbooks in Japan (in use since 2018) and their intended effects against the backdrop of a larger political ...read more
Current scholarship pays little attention to late Etruscan social structures (post-400 BCE), when Etruscans are assumed to have increasingly modelled themselves on Rome. Existing scholarship often argues that pre-400 BCE, ...read more
Professional actresses were among the few women to build wide literary networks and play an active cultural role in early modern Italy. Yet moralists commonly labelled them as ‘weavers of ...read more
The impact of hunter-gatherers on the environment has been a controversial topic since at least the 1960’s. In Northwestern-Europe it is generally assumed that humans only started influencing their environment ...read more
This project studies the overlooked history of peer review in the humanities between 1950 and today. In this period, peer review, i.e., the institutionalized evaluations of research and researchers by ...read more