The project aims to reconstruct the impact that the dissemination of vernacular translations of Plato had in Italy between 1540 and 1840. Focusing the inquiry on paratexts (prefaces, dedications, letters, ...read more
This project analyzes the interactions between religion and cultural heritage in twentieth century Japan as a venue to investigate the legacy of imperialism in the construction of modern ideas and ...read more
This project aims at analyzing for the first time (im)purity language and discourses in Syriac sources written in the 4th-9th c., to highlight the specificities of Syriac Christianity vis-à-vis other ancient strands. ...read more
This research project concerns the formation of Buddhist deity-invoking ritual practices in medieval China, focusing primarily on 7th–10th-century manuscripts and cave murals that have been discovered in the region of ...read more
We live in a world that seems to have largely lost faith in politics and in the dialectic of history . While experienced differently depending on geographical location and socio-political ...read more
Video games have a reputation of being overly violent, sexist, and stereotyping. These connotations are the result of dominant hegemonic practices in the game industry, and while they are certainly ...read more
Marveling is a universal human response to something greater than ourselves. Throughout history, narrative literature has been a prime vehicle for marveling since descriptions of the extraordinary can induce the ...read more
The project investigates anaphora resolution—that is, the discourse strategies used to refer to previously mentioned entities through anaphoric devices such as pronouns—in Belgian-Dutch speakers acquiring Italian as a second language ...read more
My research project aims to trace the social histories of the Bhagavad Gītā from the centuries just prior to colonialism in North India to the 18th and the 19th centuries. ...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