This research project considers thirteenth-century burghership within specific social tensions which characterized this century. Flemish urban societies in the thirteenth century were subjected to profound transition in economic, political, social ...read more
“Why does the caste system continue to dominate Indian society, in spite of centuries of moral critique and decades of reservation politics?” This is one of the most frequently asked ...read more
This PhD research project consists of two parts: (a) an examination of Samala's collection of stories 'Sudabahomteri' in its cultural setting and (b) an English translation of this collection of stories from ...read more
This project studies the mainstream Russian émigré newsmagazine, Illiustrirovannaia Rossiia (1924-1939), as a test case for the widely accepted idea that interwar Russian émigré culture first and foremost aspired to ...read more
In this project I will address epistemological questions about the aims, the functioning and the results of truth commissions. These questions will be related to themes such as their different ...read more
Reflection on the familiar and the foreign constitutes an important element of Nooteboom’s work. His novels are characterized by references to other literary works, frequently in other languages and by ...read more
Three different varieties of Greek used to be spoken in Cappadocia (Turkish Kapadokya) until the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s: Cappadocian, Pharasiot and Lycaonian Greek. From ...read more
According to Dawkins (1916), the vowel system of Cappadocian consisted of eight vowels. In addition to the Greek vowels [a,e,i,o,u], it included the Turkish vowels [y, œ, ɯ]. These appeared ...read more