Projects
Wine, villa landscapes and cities: the impact of Roman colonialism on the central Adriatic coastal regions of Italy Ghent University
Today wine in Italy is so much a part of the country’ culture, its economy and the way of life. This
goes back to Antiquity when first Greeks and Etruscans strongly promoted the product as colonists
and traders, and later when Rome modeled the whole peninsula, and after that the Western World,
to its image and lifestyle. Under Roman dominion wine became crucially important to the global
economy. Its ...
Secularism, colonialism and the Enlightenment: European toleration and the rise of fundamentalism in South Asia Ghent University
Research hypotheses: the proposed research will build on three hypotheses that resulted from earlier research on the development of the liberal model of secularism and toleration: (1) The basic structure of this model fails to be neutral with regard to all religions, because it is conceptually dependent upon a Protestant framework, namely, the theology of Christian liberty and its U+2018two kingdomsU+2019.(2) The policy of religious ...
An Archaeology of Comparative Colonialism: material culture, institutions, and cultural change in Malta, c. AD 1530–1910 Ghent University
The project aims to produce a novel, material culture-led narrative of daily life in Malta, AD 1530-1910. Archaeological analyses of artefacts and space shall be integrated with archival evidence to produce a social interpretation, which shall be viewed through the prisms of colonial institutions and identity formation. The project culminates in a diachronic comparison of colonialism under three ruling groups.
Speculative and Creative Methodologies for Historical Counter-Narratives: Spatial Archive, Scenographic Practice and Fictioning Hasselt University
The politics of publishing; researching encounters between artists' books and intersectional feminist tools. University of Antwerp
Changing grounds. Free and unfree coffee-growing labour in the Dutch East Indies and Belgian Congo, 1870-1960. Ghent University
Today, coffee is the world’ second most valuable legal commodity and the most widely consumed
psychoactive drug. It also provides a livelihood to 20 million workers in 70 countries. Much has been
written about the history of coffee, from its discovery in Abyssinia to the ubiquity of Starbucks. The
impact of the introduction of colonial coffee production on labour relations is however a highly
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