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
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
Negation is a universal property of human language. Every language has a means to negate a sentence. However, languages vary as to how many different forms they have at their disposal to ...read more
The scope of this project revolves around a close study of the Dīrghāgama manuscript (The Collection of Long Discourses), an important collection of Buddhist sūtras detailing the discourses of the ...read more
In IV century BC, many important terms that had to do with wisdom (sophia), such as “philosophy” (philosophia), “philosopher” (philosophos), “sophistry” (sophistikê) and “sophist” (sophistês), had not yet received the definition they ...read more
When calling a place “picturesque”, do we mean “pretty”, or perhaps “predictable” or “superficial”? Over a century ago, when symbolist artists sought melancholic views to express the hidden soul of things, were such ...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
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