Projecten

This comparative project, which examines French, English, Dutch and German texts, aims to trace the historical development of the cause célèbre, i.e. a historical-literary tradition which compiled the most remarkable legal cases and crime stories of the recent ...read more

Historiography begins with narrations of the ancient Greek historians Herodotos and Thucydides on the Persian and Peloponnesian Wars, and subsequent historians tend to share their preoccupation with great actors of ...read more

The history of the Kongo area has been more thoroughly studied than that of any other region in Central Africa. We have unequalled insights in the area’s history of the last ...read more

Sean Bex's PhD project explores the intersections of cultural memory and human rights through the lens of the oeuvre of the American author Dave Eggers. At the core of this ...read more