Funded projects

The project explores how persecuted Jews’ encounters with racialised African societies impacted their own understandings of and responses to racism.

This project will chart how engaging in slave-trading and colonialism affected Scandinavian national identities and conceptions of race.

Selena Daly will substantially complete her book which details the global history of Italian emigration from the perspective of the emigrant, from Marco Polo to today.

This project investigates the history of astronomy, calendar computation, and related sciences (astrology, cosmology, chronology) in the Near East from the third to eighth centuries CE.

This project offers the first philosophical account of spontaneous freedom, which is the freedom of acting in ways that are unplanned, unscripted, unalienated, and (typically) pleasurable.

'Connecting Disciplines using Large Language Models: Mapping Social (In)fertility in Modern Households' will produce hypotheses on the local contextual factors of reproduction and (in)fertility.

Museum of Dreamworlds is producing a cohesive, interdisciplinary and comparative study of the encounter between classical antiquity and silent cinema.