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Adaptation strategies and bio-economic regulations in fragile environment: the role of the "desert kites" – GLOBALKITES
The project covers a large geographical area which the focal point extends to about 600 km from north to south and 300 km from west to east. This area in particular, where the kites are the most numerous, covers southern Syria, eastern Jordan and northern Saudi Arabia. Alongside to this Middle-Easte
Millet crop cultivation in the Pre and Protohistorical Caucasus : Origin and development – ORIMIL
Our ORIMIL project proposes to study the origin of millet cultivation and its development in the Caucasus between the Neolithic and Iron Age, in relation to the economic and social organization of the respective societies. The southern Caucasus region includes Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan. The qu
Cultural Tranfers between China and Europe (17th and 18th Centuries): Exchanges, the Aesthetics of Chinoiserie and Identity-Building – CATHAYA
This project analyses the sociocultural politics of artistic and material Sino-European exchanges in the 17th and 18th centuries and will particularly focus on the various strategies of individual and national representations that accompanied the adoption, imitation, integration or rejection of Chi
John VI Kantakouzenos (ca 1295-1383) : Byzantium between Islam and the West – JEANVI
The project JEANVI is to publish a full annotated French translation of John VI Kantakouzenos’ Histories, a fundamental source for understanding the history of Eastern Europe in the fourteenth century. Secondly, a new thematic biography of John VI Kantakouzenos (1295/96-1388) written by a young gene