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Polytheism and Botany in Ancient Greece. Names, cults, narratives
Ancient Greek cities honored their gods by attributing them botanical names and epithets. Plants served as the foci of cultic activities and as means of anchoring the presence of a god in a territory.
Securitizing City-Building: the effects of frontier capital markets on urban development in the global South
Since the turn of the new millennium, alternative financial centers have begun to emerge across the global South, and they are today outlining a new role for domestic stock exchanges in city-building.
Cooperative and Transcultural Participatory Action Research
The scientific program "Cooperative and Transcultural Participatory Action Research" aims to qualify self-organized research in France and in Europe, by emerging organizations, structured as associati
Human nouns in Medieval French : linguistic classifications and social diversity
The aim of the project "Human nouns in Medieval French" aka HumaNs-MF would be to conduct a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the human nouns lexical network in a representative corpus of Medieval
Confidence and Reasoning: Cognitive Roots and Societal Implications
Deliberative thinking – our ability to reason in an analytic, effortful way – is associated with a range of positive outcomes, from improved logic to more accurate beliefs about science and politics (
At the extremes of mental imagery vividness: a cognitive, neural and evolutionary investigation
Close your eyes, and imagine yourself swimming in the sea.. In most people, the mental image of swimming in the sea is vivid with a high degree of detail. Mental imagery is referred to as the sim
Protohistoric Metrologies Through European Sources
The ProMeThEuS project aims to study the measurement practices in Europe during the Bronze and Iron Ages (c. 2200/-50 BC) based on archaeological and literary sources. During this period, practices
China’s Great Brain Gain: A Data-Rich History of American-Educated Chinese (mid-19th to mid-20th Century)
“China’s Great Brain Gain” is a response to the inadequate representations of the Chinese experience with globalization. Its central object of analysis is the systematic reexamination of the role that
FEMALE BODIES, FEMALE SENSATIONS A History of Female Corporeity and Sense-Perception in Medieval Science
Women’s studies, Body studies, and Sensory studies are three popular trends in current cross-disciplinary research. The project “FEMALE BODIES, FEMALE SENSATIONS” is situated at the intersection of th
Shared perception and the sense of reality
When we perceive the world, we experience a host of perceptual contents. We see shapes, colours, and movement, experience textures through touch, and hear the timbre and frequency of sounds. But there
