Search for European Projects

11 European Projects Found

Searched on 125080 European Projects

 FINISHED 

A War of Words: What Ancient Manchurian History Does to Korea and China Today (WarOfWords)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2018,

The past is not past. Ancient history can influence the present day, affecting diplomatic and economic ties between states, and galvanizing public discourse and cultural expression. Since 2003, South Korea and China have been embroiled in a territorial dispute - over ancient states that ceased to exist as such over a millennium ago, in then Manchuria. Both sides have invested hundreds of millions ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

An empire of 2000 cities: urban networks and economic integration in the Roman empire (EMPIREOF2000CITIES)

Start date: Jun 1, 2013, End date: May 31, 2018,

"The central aims of this project are to establish the shapes of the various urban hierarchies existing in the provinces of the Roman empire and (especially) to use the quantitative properties of these hierarchies to shed new light on levels of economic integration. Should we conceptualize the urban system of the Roman world as a collection of cellular ‘modules’ which were only loosely connected b ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

RETHINKING CHINA’S COLLAPSE: LAND, DEVELOPMENT AND INSTITUTIONAL CREDIBILITY (RECOLAND)

Start date: Jun 1, 2012, End date: May 31, 2018,

"Although China has appeared as a globalizing force in every sense, many observers feel that its development might come to a grinding halt or even collapse, because of its lack of political reforms, rising inequality, and rampant corruption. Contradictorily, since the start of the reforms China has exhibited relatively high socio-economic and political stability.The proposed ERC project seeks to g ...
Read Project

 2

 FINISHED 

Elevated Minds. The Sublime in the Public Arts in 17th-century Paris and Amsterdam (EM)

Start date: Feb 1, 2013, End date: Jan 31, 2018,

By focussing on how the sublime was used in Amsterdam and Paris in grands travaux and in the theatre and spectacle as part of a strategy to persuade the population of the regime’s legitimacy, this program aims to reconstruct an unknown part of the history of the sublime, and lay the foundation for a study of its role in the visual arts and the theatre of early modern Europe. The hypothesis of this ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

AESTHETICS OF DECOLONISATION: ARTISTS, MODERNISMS AND NATION-STATES IN INDIA, WEST AND EAST PAKISTAN, 1947-71 (AoD)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

AESTHETICS OF DECOLONISATION will study artists, ideologies, and cultural imaginaries across the split political contexts of India and Pakistan. It will cover the climactic decades of decolonisation, from the exit of British rule and the partition of India and Pakistan in 1947 to a second partition and the War of Liberation in 1971 that splintered East Pakistan from West, forming the current Bangl ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

China and the Historical Sociology of Empire (Chinese Empire)

Start date: Apr 1, 2012, End date: Mar 31, 2017,

This project revisits a major question in world history: how can we explain the continuity of the Chinese Empire. Moving beyond the comparison of early world empires (China and Rome) to explain the different courses Chinese and European history have taken, this project aims to assess the importance of political communication in the maintenance of empire in the last millennium. The core questions a ...
Read Project

 2

 FINISHED 

Centering the Margins: Identifications and Belonging in Lebanon and Syria: 1943-1958 (Centering the Margin)

Start date: Sep 1, 2012, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

My research will bring out the multiplicity and fluidity of identifications across national and city-vs.-town boundaries in Lebanon and Syria from 1943-1958. Notably, it is precisely within and amongst the interactions of the inhabitants of the towns of Zahle (Lebanon) and Qamishle (Syria) with those of Beirut and Damascus where new identifications were constructed. These identifications have been ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

IRELAND AND ITALY’S MIGRATION EXPERIENCES SINCE 1945 COMPARED (IIMIGRATI)

Start date: Jan 1, 2014, End date: Dec 31, 2015,

Ireland and Italy saw significant proportions of their populations emigrate after 1945 before becoming host to substantial immigrant populations in more recent times. Despite the post-war exodus of millions of Irish and Italians, the literature has consistently failed to quantify the effect this had on Irish and Italian society and on the people who left. Not enough attention has been devoted to e ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

By the Rivers of Babylon: New Perspectives on Second Temple Judaism from Cuneiform Texts (BABYLON)

Start date: Sep 1, 2009, End date: Aug 31, 2015,

This project has the potential to radically change current understanding of cultic and social transformation in the post-exilic temple community of Jerusalem (c. 6th-4th centuries BCE), an important formative phase of ancient Judaism. “BABYLON” draws on recent, ground-breaking advances in the study of cuneiform texts to illuminate the Babylonian environment of the Judean exile, the socio-historica ...
Read Project

 3

 FINISHED 

The formation of Islam: The view from below (FOI)

Start date: Mar 1, 2009, End date: Feb 28, 2015,

My project is to write a history of the formation of Islam using the vastly important but largely neglected papyri from Egypt. Until the introduction of paper in the 10th C., papyrus was the Mediterranean world’s primary writing material. Thousands of papyrus documents survive, preserving a minutely detailed transcription of daily life, as well as the only contemporary records of Islam’s rise and ...
Read Project

 1

 FINISHED 

Migration and Citizenship in Western Europe: A History (MiCitHisen)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Aug 3, 2013,

The proposed project provides a historical analysis of the impact of human mobility on the institution of citizenship and the definition of citizenry in the countries that historically played a major role in founding the European Union. A useful cross-fertilization between history and the social sciences characterizes this innovative study of citizenship and nationhood in Western Europe, which com ...
Read Project

 1