School of History, Religions and Philosophies

A multi-year and interdisciplinary project where diverse scholars and practitioners, from AI engineers to Sci-fiction novelists, from philosophers to Sinologists aim to discuss Chinese perspectives on AI in a global dialogue and explore its implications for humanity and its future.

A multi-year and interdisciplinary project that explores patterns of religious diversity in Sichuan from the 1800 to today, and relocates Sichuan from the periphery to the centre of the study of Chinese religions.

This project produced state-of-the art editions of the core ritual texts of the Zoroastrian religion and an interactive film of a performance of the ritual.

Dr Yousef Moradi created a catalogue of bullae he excavated at Taxt-e Sulaymān in Iran.

This project develops a technology for annotating textual structure within IIIF.

This project will analyse and publish newly discovered bullae and the seal impression they bear from one of the most important fire temples of Sasanian Iran.

The project challenges the exclusion in the dominant understanding of philosophical traditions and of philosophical knowledge as essentially textual, exploring the non-textuality of philosophical knowledge in African places with a specific focus on oral and symbolic forms of knowledge.

The project is an interdisciplinary and public engagement project that brings together academics, healthcare workers and persons with disabilities in three different African countries to collectively and creatively understand and challenge deeply rooted philosophies and beliefs about disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa and their impact on access to healthcare for persons with disabilities.

Avestan Ritual in India (AVINDIA) is a 5-year project will film the performance of a Visperad ceremony in India and will seek to detect, describe, visualise and analyse how the ritual is structured as systematically organised activity, and to reconstruct its genesis and historical trajectory.

This project proposes to lay the foundation for commercialising an annotation tool developed in Hintze’s MUYA-IIIF Proof of Concept project, using the vehicle of a new digital repository for previously unpublished sources held at the Royal Asiatic Society in London.