In recent years several forms of collaboration between journalists, scientific experts, scientific institutions (and their PR staff) and citizen groups have become more frequent (Houston, 2010; Spangenberg & Heise, 2016). ...read more
Many early modern European works of art are not singular images but a combination of images with figurative marginalia, borders or frames. In general, art historical research addressing marginal imagery ...read more
My study revolves around the unduly neglected figure of the late-Qing and early Republican Confucian scholar Liao Ping 廖平 (1852-1932). Instead of attempting to write an intellectual biography in a traditional sense, ...read more
Via corpus-based analysis and experimental research we investigate the presence and impact of non-standard language features (old and new vernacular) in public consumer comments and company responses on social media.
Mobility, or moving from one place to another, is essentially a spatial act. In this PhD, mobility based on isotopical and elemental strontium is explored from a spatial perspective, in ...read more
In 1616, English bishop Godfrey Goodman wrote the text The Fall of Man: or the Corruption of Nature. In this text, he shows the extent of the corruption in nature, ...read more
The research project The System of Mohist Logic and Its Methodology engages with the work «Mozi» (《墨子》, mò zǐ), ascribed to the philosopher Mozi (墨子, trad. ca.470–391 BCE). The scholarship does not agree ...read more
This project focuses on the 17th-century French philosopher and scientist Pierre Gassendi (1592-1655). It will attempt to clarify some particular features of the theories on (atomic) matter and motion which ...read more