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The Multimedia Yasna (MUYA)

Start date: Oct 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2021,

...pproaches from Digital Humanities, Philology and Linguistics into four interrelated work-packages. These will involve filming and analyzing the ritual performance and teaching practices in priestly schools, the creation of a suite of electronic tools for editing Avestan texts, a database of transcribed manuscripts of the Yasna and in-depth studies of selected parts of the text by combining dataset ...
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Multilingual locals, significant geographies: a new approach to world literature (Mulosige)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2020,

“World literature is literature that circulates globally. It is mostly in English. Its main genre is the novel.” These are caricatures of how World literature as a set of discourses is shaping the field of literary studies, but in fact Non-Western literatures are positioned with reference to a single global timeline and a single map, and translations supposedly ensure that worthy texts enter the g ...
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The Hatha Yoga Project: Mapping Indian and Transnational Traditions of Physical Yoga through Philology and Ethnography (HYP)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Hatha was the name given in medieval India to a method of yoga in which physical practices predominate. Its origins are unclear, but some of its techniques can be traced to the first millennium BCE and it gradually became central to several Indian religious traditions, including, by the second half of the second millennium CE, orthodox Hinduism. Hatha yoga is also the source of much of the modern ...
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Doing Intimacy: A Multi-sited Ethnography of Modern Chinese Family Life (Intimacy)

Start date: Oct 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2020,

Families in Western countries have received a great deal of attention from social scientists but there is less information on family life in other regions of the world. Given its growing rapidly in global influence, China represents a crucial region for sociological advancement and understanding. There have been profound changes in the Chinese family over the last century as a result of industrial ...
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Beyond Boundaries: Religion, Region, Language and the State (ASIA)

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2020,

The Gupta dynasty dominated South Asia during the 4th and 5th centuries. Their period was marked by political stability and an astonishing florescence in every field of endeavor. The Gupta kingdom and its networks had an enduring impact on India and a profound reach across Central and Southeast Asia in a host of cultural, religious and socio-political spheres. Sometimes characterized as a ‘Golden ...
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Roads and the politics of thought: Ethnographic approaches to infrastructure development in South Asia (Roads)

Start date: Feb 1, 2015, End date: Jan 31, 2020,

New roads are being constructed at unprecedented rates in certain parts of the world. The proposed research will ask: Why? To what end? Who benefits? What ideas lie in the foundations of this new infrastructure? Roads are presented as solutions to poverty, ‘development’ and economic growth? Are they? In what ways? What else might roads do? As cheap oil dwindles and questions of climate change rema ...
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Transnationalism and Unofficial Law: The Case of Kurds in Turkey and Germany (TRANSNATIONALaw)

Start date: Jan 1, 2017, End date: Dec 31, 2019,

The use of multiple legal practices based on diverse normative perceptions increasingly challenges the monopoly of state law. In Europe, this issue has become especially visible in the ongoing discussions about sharia courts. However, there is only limited research about the practical implications of non-state legal orders, particularly in relation to their effects on women’s rights and gender rel ...
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Human Rights in the Post-Uprisings Middle East: Emerging Discourses and Practices inEgypt and Tunisia (HURIME)

Start date: May 1, 2017, End date: Apr 30, 2019,

The popular Arab Spring uprisings in the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region and their recent developments have proved the significant emancipatory potential of human rights and moved the human rights issue to the forefront of academic and political debates. This project deals with the human rights discourses and practices in the MENA region undergoing transition through the course of so-ca ...
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Engaged humanities in Europe: Capacity building for participatory research in linguistic-cultural heritage (ENGHUM)

Start date: Jan 1, 2016, End date: Dec 31, 2018,

The Faculty of “Artes Liberales” at the University of Warsaw aims at reaching the scientific excellence in the area of participatory action research in linguistic-cultural heritage and revitalization of endangered languages. The project will make it possible to bridge several huge gaps in current humanistic research, including its relatively limited impact on a broader society, the lack of connect ...
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The Underbelly of the Indian Boom: Adivasis and Dalits (UNDERINDIA)

Start date: Jul 1, 2013, End date: Jun 30, 2018,

In recent decades India has experienced exceptionally high economic growth rates, becoming one of the world’s fastest growing major economies. Yet, the redistribution of the fruits of economic growth – the trickle down effects of growth – have been negligible for vast swathes of India’s population, most of who live in the countryside. The demographics of the poor are starkly socially marked. Econo ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Jun 1, 2016, End date: Sep 30, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries

Start date: Feb 1, 2016, End date: May 31, 2017,

This is a project for higher education student and staff mobility between Programme Countries and Partner Countries. Please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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‘Freedom, dignity and justice’: A comprehensive approach to the understanding of youth exclusion and the prospects for youth inclusion and overall change in the South and East Mediterranean (POWER2YOUTH)

Start date: Mar 1, 2014, End date: Feb 28, 2017,

The 2010-2011 youth-led wave of protests in the South and East Mediterranean, could be described as the coming on the scene of a new generation united by a shared experience of marginalisation and by new ways to protest and act. Important as this phenomenon could be for the future of the SEM, it still escapes the main frames of analysis utilised by academic research. Youth studies in the SEM, whil ...
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Power and Institutions in Medieval Islam and Christendom. An integrated training in research and diffusion for comparative history (PIMIC)

Start date: Jan 1, 2013, End date: Dec 31, 2016,

"PIMIC is a cooperative effort by a team of western medievalists, Arabists and Byzantinists -eight partners from prestigious academic institutions and two private sector companies- in order to propose a four years ITN program. For this project, we will take advantage of the wide-ranging expertise and complementarities of all ITN partners, composed of some of the most relevant research in mediaeval ...
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"Financialisation, economy, society and sustainable development." (FESSUD)

Start date: Dec 1, 2011, End date: Nov 30, 2016,

"The research programme will integrate diverse levels, methods and disciplinary traditions with the aim of developing a comprehensive policy agenda for changing the role of the financial system to help achieve a future which is sustainable in environmental, social and economic terms. The programme involves an integrated and balanced consortium involving partners from 14 countries that has unsurpa ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2015, End date: Sep 30, 2016,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Euro-Med Youth Training and Networking Programme

Start date: Sep 1, 2014, End date: Aug 31, 2016,

...onstruction of research conducted by voluntarily multicultural student groups. Two International Summer Universities were organized before applying for the Erasmus + fund: - The International Summer School for Intercultural Leadership 2013, held in Istanbul, Turkey, from July 1 to July 15 2013, on "The European experience: the world wars to reconciliation and cooperation." - The University Intern ...
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Diasporic Constructions of Home and Belonging (CoHaB)

Start date: Nov 1, 2011, End date: Oct 31, 2015,

All over the world, stable concepts of home and belonging have, for a variety of reasons, become the exception rather than the rule. This has led to dramatic cultural, social and political changes and challenges. The study of diaspora and migration has therefore evolved into a burgeoning field of research with an urgent practical relevance. In a wide and sometimes confusing array of approaches it ...
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Higher education student and staff mobility project

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

This is a higher education student and staff mobility project, please consult the website of the organisation to obtain additional details.
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Toward a Situated Analysis of Musical Improvisation: A Case Study of South Indian Ritual Music (AMIIR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2013, End date: Sep 30, 2015,

The present project focuses on the analysis of musical improvisation in South Indian ritual art-music, i.e. the music of oboe/shawm and drum players of the periya mēḷam orchestra. It aims to develop innovative methods, techniques, and tools in order to analyse musical improvisation as a performative and creative process –aesthetically, emotionally and socially significant. Although it would provid ...
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Grasping the Links in the Chain: Understanding the Unintended Consequences of International Counter-Narcotics Measures for the EU (LINKSCH)

Start date: Feb 1, 2012, End date: Jan 31, 2015,

Since the end of the Cold War there has been an explosion in the international drugs market and a consequent general desire to review and reform the existing international control regime. Academic understanding of the role of the drugs market in the international economy has increased, but the cumulative impact of counter-narcotics measures in transit chain countries between source and market rema ...
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Interventions to Promote Healthy Eating Habits: Evaluation and Recommendations (EATWELL)

Start date: Apr 1, 2009, End date: Mar 31, 2013,

...itions on advertising certain foods to children, promotion of fruit and vegetable consumption, nutrition labelling, dialogue with food industry to improve food product composition and regulation of school meals and public sector canteens to ensure healthy food offerings. Rarely have these been evaluated in a systematic manner. The EATWELL project will gather benchmark data on healthy eating inte ...
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Challenges for Europe in the world of 2030 (AUGUR)

Start date: Oct 1, 2009, End date: Jan 31, 2013,

Our challenge is to capture, within a set of scenarios, the characteristics and implications of a variety of patterns that may occur in 2030 in all domains, be it political, economic, social, environmental or technological in Europe and in the world. The project wants to take stock of long term trends identified in demography, environmental changes as well as to feature some of the effects of like ...
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European Benchmark Framework for Chinese

Start date: Nov 1, 2010,

...ltilingualism in Europe as increasing importance is being attached to this policy with the recognition that (LWUTLs) need more attention. While Mandarin Chinese is being introduced into more and more schools and universities in EU countries, there is an urgent need to raise both learners' and professionals' awareness of the linguistic differences between Chinese and European languages and the dive ...
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Lingu@net World Wide

Start date: Dec 1, 2009,

Lnet EU was developed over the last 12 years with support from the EU (in 1998-2001, and 2003-2006). In 2007 it was awarded the MERLOT prize for being ‘exemplary on-line learning material for all disciplines’ (www.merlot.org) and in 2008 L’net EU was awarded the European Commission’s Gold prize in the "European Lifelong Learning Awards for quality in mobility" (http://ec.europa.eu/education/langua ...
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