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Colonial Ears: Noise, Acoustics, and Hearing Bodies in Colonial Taiwan
This project investigates the transfer of noise monitoring technologies from New York City to Taipei vis-à-vis Japanese colonial administrators in the
Cultures of Innovation in Global History
A commonly used expression, innovation is rather difficult to define. Innovation is both an act (the process of conceiving, thinking, producing and im
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Exemplum and Wundertier: Three Concepts of the Scholarly Persona
How do ways of life emerge and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we hardly ha
Between Law and Science: Unsoundness of Mind in Anglo-American Medical Jurisprudence
Who is unsound of mind? Who should be deemed sufficiently responsible to make a will, enter into a contract, or get married? Who should not? Questions
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The Evolutionary Future: A History of Humanity's Biological Destiny
Typically, we think of evolution as a theory that explains the present in light of the past. Scientific explorations into the convoluted history
From Form to Norm: The Systematization of Values in German Design
As both normed object and carrier of further norms, the two-dimensional sheet of paper was the center of a systematized corpus of norms. My project po
Good Doctors: A Story of Governing and Knowing from Medieval to Modern Europe
Physicians were not only healers and naturalists. They helped govern communities across Europe from medieval to modern times. This project is about th
Ancients and Moderns: A Cultural History of Modern Science in India (1600–2000)
India’s encounter with modern science began in 1615 when an envoy of the East India Company presented a telescope to the Mughal emperor, Jahangir. The
Geographical Knowledge and Cultural Concepts: A Preliminary Investigation of the Old Chinese Maps Collected at the MPIWG
This project will provide a new insight into the old Chinese maps collected at the MPIWG , which proves their academic value as a source for deep rese
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Diseases of Modern Life: Nineteenth-Century Perspectives
In our current "Information Age" we suffer as never before, it is claimed, from the stresses of an overload of information, and the speed of global ne