This project approaches exclusionary practices in current academic historiographies of post-1970 feminisms in Belgium as a mirror for power dynamics in that past itself. The remembrance of this past as straight ...read more
This project investigates views on the internal body in premodern Japan. In particular, the theory of the five viscera, or gozôron will be of interest. Several handwritten sources from the ...read more
Migration is one of the defining phenomena of the 21st century. At the same time, however, migration itself is being redefined by a wide range of cultural, social, and technological ...read more
This project intends to investigate the contentious relation between German idealism and life sciences. It pays, on the one hand, major philosophical attention to how German idealistic philosophy takes up the concepts ...read more
The Deng Jue Si 等覺寺 (Deng Jue Temple) is the most important temple in the Menghua area (Yunnan Province) in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644). It was first built in the ...read more
This research strives to overcome scientific knowledge gaps related to Sun Yat-sen’s life, as well as the gaps surrounding the concepts that are crucial in understanding his persona: Leninism, Christianity, ...read more
Until now, the study of travel writing has mostly focused on the visual ‘gazes’ on foreign people and places. Challenging the longstanding neglect of non-visual sensations, this project ...read more
This research aims to illuminate and explain two seemingly contradictory types of ‘period room’ in private bourgeois homes in Belgium during the second half of the 19th century – ...read more
This project uses the critical philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche to develop a comprehensive understanding of the meaning and function of the nihilism(s) confronting us in today’s ecological crises. Despite increased ...read more
This research investigates a music composition model that includes creating the musical instruments for which the score is written. In this method a musical instrument is considered, first and foremost, a ...read more