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  • Aramaic in Lebanese Place Names: A Linguistic and Socio-Cultural Analysis

    Research project

    Place has meaning. Place names have meaning not only in the linguistic or etymological sense, but also have socio-cultural significance. Place has a geographical dimension (physical or imaginary).

  • Beyond Trauma: Memories of the Future and the Futures of Memory

    Research project

    This long-term, multidisciplinary research project explors the relationship between memory and futurity by uniting scholars from memory studies, literary studies, intellectual history, postcolonial, and ecocritical fields.

  • Comics Region East Asia: Traditions, Translations and Transculturations

    Research project

    Focusing on media regionality, this comics-studies project investigates aesthetic, cultural, and industrial commonalities across differences between Sinophone, Korean, and Japanese graphic narratives (manga, manhwa, manhua, lianhuanhua).

  • Communicating Female Voicelessness: A Feminist-Narratological Study of Pak Wansô's Short Stories

    Research project

    Doctoral Thesis, Monograph: Communicating Female Voicelessness: A Feminist-Narratological Study of Pak Wansô's Short Stories from the 1970s

  • Contextualizing Fan Noli: Dispersal, Diaspora, Nation and the Historic Roots of Modernity

    Research project

    Contribution to The Many Roads in Modernity: The Transformation of South-East Europe and the Ottoman Heritage from 1870 to the Twenty-first Century (University of Copenhagen, Denmark).

  • Death in Contemporary Iraqi Novels

    Research project

    This project aims to study the representations of death in a selection of contemporary Iraqi novels, and in relation to different thematic contexts and problematics.

  • Human Rights and Democratic Consolidation in South Korea

    Research project

    The study investigates whether South Korea has respected human rights since the revision of the Constitution in 1987 that introduced direct presidential elections and how respect has changed throughout time.

  • Invitations to Playful Reading: Graphic Fiction from Early Modern to Contemporary Japan

    Research project

    Japanese early modern picturebooks, kusazōshi (late 18th/early 19th cent.) and modern graphic narratives, manga (late 20th/early 21st cent.) are brought into dialogue with respect to their participatory, performative, and media-ecological potential.

  • Lost in Transition: Obscuring the Arab Caliph and its Consequences after Lausanne

    Research project

    The Lausanne Project: The Project takes its name from the longest-lasting of the post-First World War peace settlements: the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne.

  • National art and global movements

    Research project

    A comparative, art-historical study of Sweden and Poland that reconceptualizes “national art” as a relational, dialogical process—shaped by Japonisme, transculturation, and the circulation of cultural objects in the age of nationalism.

  • Of forests and humans – Hong Kong contemporary short fiction

    Research project

    This publication project included the translation of short stories by six Hong Kong women writers. Each short story is accompanied by a ‘close reading’ which offers an interpretation of the text.

  • Prisonscape: Literary Reconfigurations of the Real and Imagined Worlds of the Chinese Prison

    Research project

    Doctoral thesis, monograph: Prisonscape: Literary Reconfigurations of the Real and Imagined Worlds of the Chinese Prison

  • Staging Violence, Singing Hope

    Research project

    Doctoral thesis, monograph: "Staging Violence, Singing Hope: Trauma, Memory, and Affect in Three Musical and Dance Performances by North Korean Migrants in South Korea".

  • The Quran and Ibn Hisham’s Sira: A Contrastive Lexical-Semantic Analysis

    Research project

    The Quran emerged in a given context, socio-political but also linguistic. It emerged in its immediate Arabian and Arabic context, but also in a wider geographical, social, political and linguistic context.

  • The Rise of the South Korean Defense Industry and Arms Exports

    Research project

    South Korea has in recent years become one of the world´s largest exporters of defense materiel. In order to explain how, the study aims to answer three interrelated questions: