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From Text to Speech: Re-Embodying Voice and Disembodying Difference
Historians of science have narrated the development of sonic technology as a process of cleaving sounds from the humans that produce them. Of course,
The Global History of the Swing
This project traces the history of an object that has accompanied us since immemorial times, from pre-imperial China and from the Greek legends of Eri
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Scandalous Subjects: Island Lives and Demographic Anxieties from Race to Development in Melanesia
This project was an ethnography of the scientific practices of counting human populations and the anxieties engendered by the futures that the numbers
PublicationsAlexandra Widmer has published Of Field Encounters and Metropolitan Debates: Research and the Making and Meaning of the Melanesian ‘Race’
Direktor Jürgen Renn in Tagesspiegel über die Rolle der Wissenschaft in der Gegenwart
Zum ArtikelAppeal for climate action by director Jürgen Renn in Tagesspiegel
Go to ArticleMedical Demography in Colonial Central Africa. Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference, 1918–45.
This project examined the role of medical doctors in the production and circulation of demographic knowledge and ideas about human variation in three
Blood Groups and the Rise of Human Genetics in the Mid-Twentieth Century
This project offered a new postwar history of human genetics, by examining how, in mid-twentieth century Britain, blood groups were made into objects
Instruments of God: Toward a Metaphysics of Music Theory
Histories of music theory in the eighteenth century are generally written as triumphant narratives of the scientific successes of experimental philoso
Race and Progress: Towards an Epistemological History of the Race Concept
The concept of race certainly constitutes one of the most problematic legacies of the Enlightenment. Most existing historiography on this concept fram