This project examines intra- and inter-speaker variation in Arabic during interpreter-mediated encounters in Brussels, where linguistic diversity poses significant communication challenges. The study focuses on the cross-dialectal accommodation strategies employed ...read more
This study will analyze how hunger and famine are thematised in Borana folktales in the context of wider practices of storytelling. Situated at the intersections of oral literature and oral ...read more
This study will explores folksongs as pivotal tools for social communication and development. It highlights their role in Indigenous Knowledge Systems, conflict resolution, gender equality, education, and interethnic ...read more
The Wei, Jin, and Northern and Southern Dynasties period (220-584 CE) was a politically turbulent time. The interaction and blending of new cultural elements, especially the widespread influence of the Buddhism ...read more
Fuel was an essential element for both domestic activities (e.g. cooking and heating, artisanal and (proto-)industrial production) and cremation rituals. Fuel use in the Low Counties has been studied for ...read more
This PhD project pursues a comprehensive study of Anyue (Sichuan) stone carvings related to Esoteric Buddhism during the Tang and Song dynasties, using a mixed methodology of iconographic analysis and tracing Esoteric Buddhist ...read more
This research proposal aims to investigate the diversification of the reconstructed stage of Proto-West Germanic as it appears in the South Germanic, Frisian, and Pre-Old English runic corpora. To this ...read more
This project examines the representation of child-figures in contemporary (2017-ongoing) American speculative eco-comics, framing them as “com-post children”—a child who learns to become with their environment and aspires to be a ...read more
The aim of this project is to attain a comprehensive understanding of the role that the historiography of philosophy played in German neo-Kantianism’s reconceptualization of the boundaries and identity of ...read more