In this project I investigate whether the human sciences can establish objectiveknowledge. Currently both within the disciplines of the human sciences and withinphilosophical debates the category of objectivity has been ...read more
Since 1999 a Syro-Belgian excavation team led by Prof. Joachim Bretschneider has been exploring the past of Tell Tweini (Ancient Gibala) on the coast of Syria. After eleven years of ...read more
As previous studies have shown, in order to overcome the language barriers and enable the communication between general practitioners and migrant patients, the employment of professional community interpreters in the ...read more
Our dissertation focuses on a two-part literary corpus. The first group contains four novels dedicated to the wars of the collapse of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. Created either by French ...read more
An important feature of literary modernism is its emphasis on ‘the now,’ its insistence on the present and the immediacy of experience. Modernist writers rejected the nineteenth-century fascination with the past ...read more
This project explores the ways in which American experimental poets struggled to create poetry that countered the Cold War ideology, and examines how the method of collecting-archiving was used in their efforts. ...read more
This research project examines a series of ‘Spanish’ epic poems written in the wake of the battle of Lepanto (1571). It explores the representation of the cultural Other in these ...read more
On his account of ‘human complexity’ and ‘relativity of ethical judgments’ Wilde writes in The Soul of Man, “[p]ersonality is a very mysterious thing. A man cannot always be estimated ...read more