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The notion of things and the transformation of seventeenth-century Chinese philosophy

2020

In the Anglophone world, the Chinese character wu 物 is most often straightforwardly translated as “thing”. However, in the everyday Chinese language, wu is a highly distinctive word and concept. In Chinese, people/persons/human beings are ...read more
Regiostudies
Wijsbegeerte en filosofie
The history of the agricultural research institute of the Belgian Congo

2020

INEAC, the government-funded agricultural research institute of the Belgian Congo, employed a significant number of European researchers and African personnel for several decades, from the 1920s until the 1960s. Its ...read more
Shared interest or mutual competition? The organization of voluntary jurisdiction in the Southern Low Countries during the late middle ages (1278-1433)

2020

The status of the present-day Belgian notariat is currently being questioned by politicians, and its prominent social position in the recording and authentication of private transactions is at stake. This ...read more
15de eeuw
België
Comparatief
comparative legal history
Counties of Flanders and Hainaut
customary legal practices
Frans
Geschiedenis
High and Late Middle Ages
Kwantitatief
Latijn
Middeleeuwen
Nederlands
Pragmatic literacy
Taal- en tekstanalyse
West-Europa
From the 21st Century BC to the 21st Century AD. New Methodological Approaches for the Analysis of a Corpus of Unpublished Cuneiform Tablets

2020

This research project aims to enhance the traditional methodologies of textual analysis by leveraging the potential of digital methodologies to study 210 unpublished cuneiform tablets from the Ur III period ...read more
Archeologie
Geschiedenis
Kubandwa in the southwestern Great Lakes, 15th century – 1930s. A case-study in the historical dynamics of public healing

2020

The history of kubandwa – a complex of therapeutic associations in Great Lakes Africa – since 1500 is intimately linked to gendered social-economic innovation and configurations of (supra)lineage authority. An ...read more
Navigating the emotional journey of learning a language

2020

In this project, we explore the ways in which emotions and interpersonal interactions impact foreign language students’ learning experiences in both in-person and online English classes.

In our first exploratory case ...read more
Taalkunde
Fury. A philosophical analysis of the productive value of women's anger

2020

Following the peak of the #MeToo movement, 2018 saw a remarkable surge in popular publications on the topic of women’s anger. These publications might reflect a shift in the popular ...read more
"Ni Una Menos": Gender Violence through the Lens of the Contemporary Latin American Chronicle in Argentina and Mexico

2020

In my FWO funded research project '"Ni Una Menos": Gender violence through the lens of the contemporary Latin American chronicle' (2021-2025) supervised by prof. Ilse Logie, I study how Argentinian and ...read more
Gender
Hedendaags
Literatuurwetenschap
Spaans
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Zuid-Amerika
When Chinese Buddhism Met Psychology: Pioneers of an Alternative Intellectual History (1880-1930)

2020

Modern Western psychology was first introduced to China in the 1880s. The circulation of psychology in the late Qing dynasty intertwined with religion, educational reform, and historiography, set the stage ...read more
20e eeuw
Chinees
Chinese Buddhism
Comparatief
Engels
Geschiedenis
Interculturaliteit
Regiostudies
Religie
Science and religion
Taal- en tekstanalyse
Verre Oosten
Wijsbegeerte en filosofie
Concessive conditionals. A typological study

2020

The present study is concerned with adverbial clauses called concessive conditionals from a functional-typological perspective. Based on a convenience sample of ca. 100 language, it investigates the coding strategies used ...read more
Linguistic typology
Taalkunde