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Buddhism, Japan, culture and society, modernization

ancient Greek democracy, Roman politics, the history of democracy and constitutionalism

Cultural and social history of German Jewry

Medieval Studies, Old Norse literature, Viking and medieval Scandinavia, cultural memory, media theory

performativity, East Asian languages and cultures, classical poetry, diary literature, cultural context, anthology of vernacular poetry, Man'yôshû, poetry and poetics

continued life of Islamic philosophy

Latin America, anthropology, cultural heritage, gender, archaeology, sexuality, museums, ethics, Central America, feminism

medieval Italian literature, history of science, history of philosophy, Mediterranean studies, digital humanities

English Renaissance literature 1500-1660

art, architecture, literature, afterlife of antiquity, middle ages & Renaissance / early modern age, Giotto, Donatello, Mantegna, Botticelli, Raphael, 19th/20th cent. historiography, Aby Warburg, total solar eclipses, theology, creativity and interdisciplinarity

political theory, history of political thought, jurisprudence

Old English, poetry

European legal history, comparative law, medieval jurisprudence, customary law

Medieval Iberia, transcultural text, transtermporal text, translinguistic text

medieval history

Spanish literature: poetry, poetic theory, narrative and culture, history of the book, Cervantes, Don Quixote, Celestina, Everyday Life, Medieval and Early Modern Spanish literature. Modern Spain.

Sanskrit literature

Renaissance Europe, early modern Europe, Atlantic History, History of Books and Reading, colonialism, history of science and technology

medieval French literature, Rare Books and Manuscripts, critical theory, French literature, medieval Occitan literature

climate change, early modern, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Indian Ocean, art history, environment, globalization, ecology, Eco Art History, global art history

East Asian languages and cultures, medieval Chinese Buddhism, Chan Buddhism, Japanese Buddhism, Zen Buddhism, Tantric Buddhism, Buddhist art, ritual studies, Buddhist philosophy, methodological issues in the study of religion

Chinese history (Tang, Song, Liao dynasties), global middle ages, sino-steppe relations, aristocracies, meritocracy, elites, political culture, death ritual, premodern cities, premodern empires, imperialism, ethnicity, nationalism, national identity, social networks, frontiers, boundaries and borderlands, digital methodologies