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A European Initial Training Network on the History, Archaeology, and New Genetics of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade (EUROTAST)
Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,
The principal aim of this ITN is to examine the history of the transatlantic slave trade and its legacies from a variety of different angles. The idea is to hire thirteen Early Stage Researchers (ESRs) and two Experienced Researchers (ERs) across Europe and a wide range of disciplines, including history, archaeology, sociology, heritage studies and genetics, to investigate various aspects of the s ...
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"""The Commentary on Auspicious things"". A Pali text from Northern Thailand" (MGD)
Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,
The aim of this project is to study a major work of Buddhist literature in Southeast Asia, the Mangalatthadīpanī (“Discourse on Auspicious Things”). This text is of considerable length and reaches about 30 folios in manuscript form and about 1000 pages in printed editions in vernacular scripts. Written in Pali (the canonical language of Theravada Buddhism) in Chiang Mai (present day Northern Thail ...
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Movement and Migration in Irish Prehistory (MMIP)
Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,
"The aim of this project is to achieve a better understanding of human population movements and migrations during the Mesolithic and early Neolithic periods in the Atlantic regions of northwest Europe. The investigation will especially focus on the role of such movements in bringing about social, cultural and economic changes in Ireland and Britain, including the arrival and spread of agriculture. ...
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Ernst Jünger's Intercultural Encounters (EJICEN)
Start date: Oct 1, 2012, End date: Sep 30, 2014,
"Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) is one of the most significant writers and thinkers of 20th-century Europe. This project is concerned with the extensive travel diaries that Jünger wrote after World War II and with their depictions of intercultural encounters. The project will contribute significantly to one of the key developing strands of Jünger scholarship, the exploration of his decades-long inquirie ...
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