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Pragmatic expletive pronouns in the dialects of southern Italy. An experimental-syntactic approach

2022

Despite their status as null subject languages, several southern Italian dialects feature expletive subject pronouns. These do not serve as a ‘dummy subject pronoun’ like typical expletives, but rather have ...read more
Facing up to the dictatorial past. Cultural memory and the responsibility for fascism in post-1990 Italian literature

2022

Memory scholars have been criticizing the state of collective memory in the West arguing that efforts made to commemorate the crimes of the twentieth century have neither reduced racism nor ...read more
Science fiction and seriousness. How concerns with seriousness proliferate through and impact on the reading, writing and discussion of the genre

2022

Since its nascency in the American pulp magazines of the 1920s, science fiction (SF) has had a particular relationship with the concept of seriousness. Characterised as juvenile in both its ...read more
Literatuurwetenschap
When the king does philosophy. The Vedantic writings of Jasvant Singh of Mārvāḍ (1626–1678)

2022

This project aims at shedding light on the intellectual profile of King Jasvant Singh of Marvar (1626–1678), in today’s Rajasthan. My hypothesis is that Jasvant Singh – a prominent political ...read more
Fertility frontiers. A global history of transnational reproduction in Belgium from cross-feminist perspective

2022

The global demise in intercountry adoption procedures is opening up newer, technologically advanced fertility frontiers, including transnational egg donation and surrogacy, through which infertile couples are building the biogenetic families ...read more
The social life of early Netherlandish painting

2022

This project aims to identify the social networks in which Early Netherlandish painting originated and circulated in c. 1400-1550. Scholars all agree that the frequent commissioning and purchase of paintings ...read more
Institutionalized resistance. Milo Rau's NTGent period

2022

"Institutionalized Resistance: Milo Rau’s NTGent Period" will explore Swiss-German director Milo Rau’s work with Nederlands Toneel Gent (NTGent), one of Belgium’s most important cultural institutions, looking at both Rau’s work as a ...read more
Theater- en podiumkunsten
Fictions of bio-messiness. Interspecies ambiguity in the experimental forms and spaces of post-1945 novels

2022

Beginning with the premise that literature offers a space for negotiating the kinds of complexity that often attend sensitive socio-cultural issues, this project explores moments of human-animal, or interspecies, ambiguity ...read more
Building on the edge of the empire. A socio-cultural approach of rural stone domestic buildings on the northwestern edge of the Roman Empire

2022

Stone domestic architecture is first encountered in north-western Gaul in the Roman period. The shift from indigenous houses in perishable materials to residences in stone is a major turning point ...read more
Archeologie
België
Comparatief
Engels
Geografisch en kaart gebaseerd
Late Oudheid
Oudheid
West-Europa
In the mind of the scribe. An integrated sociolinguistic and psycholinguistic approach to orthographic variation and change in the Greek language of the papyri

2022

This project proposes to combine for the first time historical (socio)linguistics with the insights from modern psycholinguistic research to study linguistic variation in post-Classical Greek. For this purpose the study ...read more