This project aims to produce a ‘counter-history’ of biology in which the focal point is vitalism in its successive incarnations and definitions. Vitalism has classically been taken to be the ...read more
All subjects ‘of whatever state or quality’ should ‘live together peacefully as friends’: the Edict of Nantes (1598) not only establishes religious tolerance, it calls for friendship among non-peers. Correspondences ...read more
In this project, we will use non-deterministic semantics to study various modal notions. We will be particularly interested in logics that have a coherent provability reading, such as informal provability, ...read more
This project examines the diverse representations of early Judaism across the German-speaking lands of the 19th century. In view of the rising nation-state, it illuminates the importance of the ancient past ...read more
The phenomenon of lobbyists attempting to influence the decisions of government is nothing new. While official, regulated lobbying is a modern institution, informal lobbying is much older. In Roman Antiquity, ...read more
Arabic was catapulted onto the world stage by the Arab-Islamic conquests of the 7th century CE. Within a few centuries, it was the international medium of science and communication. ‘Classical ...read more
What makes an online review impolite? And how do we emotionally respond to online (im)politeness? In this postdoc project, we investigate people’s reactions to different degrees of (im)politeness in reviews and ...read more
There is still a widespread view that Rome’s expanding economic influence over the Mediterranean in the Late Republic (ca. 200-50 BC) triggered a dramatic change in Italy’s wine industry. This ...read more
Contemporary dance in the Eastern European periphery is still at the very onset of the process of institutionalization and its particular working modes and (kin)aesthetics are largely understudied and until ...read more
Previous studies have argued that remote interpreting raises new issues with respect to the management of understanding and the organization of turn-taking in spoken interpreter-mediated interactions. However, little is known about how remote ...read more