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A Historical and Critical Neuroscience of Music
Over the past twenty years neuroscience huge strides have been made in our understanding of how the brain reacts to music, and representations of musi
Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation
This research focuses on practices and texts related to hand mnemonics in fate prediction methods in contemporary China and Taiwan (with a current foc
Engineering Growth: Infrastructures of Planning in Japanese Overseas Development
My project examines the history of Japan's overseas development system in Asia from its origins in Japan's colonial rule over much of Asia before 1945
Acoustic Knowledge, Sound Technologies, and Music in Early Twentieth-Century India
This project investigates the transformation and co-production of soundscapes, technologies, and sound epistemologies on the Indian subcontinent. In t
Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire
European identity is inextricable from Europe’s views about other peoples. During the early modern period, overseas artifacts entered princely and sch
Betwixt and Between: Sound in the Humanities and Sciences
The broad domain of acoustics that emerged in academic life throughout the modern era is usually categorized as part of the natural sciences. Yet the
Events, Betwixt and Between: Sound in the Humanities and Sciences, February 2018, More, Vossius Center for History of Humanities and Sciences
Appareil du sens—Concepts of the Human Senses in Scientific Observations
This project examined the conceptualization of the human senses in observational practices from 1750 to 1830. Starting with a discussion on the task o
Publications, “Haut und Zirkel. Ein Entstehungsherd: Ernst Heinrich Webers Untersuchungen ‘Ueber den Tastsinn’,“ in: Michael Hagner (ed.), Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2001, pp. 191–223., Funding Institutions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Cosmic Ice Theory—Science, Fiction and the Public, 1894–1945
At the end of the nineteenth century, Werner Siemens proclaimed the beginning of the scientific age in Germany. At the same time, academic scholars, p
Publications, “Kosmische Ent-Fremdung. Zur Geschichte der Welteislehre und ihrer epistemischen Dinge,” in: Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 1 (2006).
A History of Scientific Methods and Expertise in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
In nineteenth-century society, the sciences gained in importance. Technology and industry, nutrition, public health, and the law are only a few exampl
Publications, Shifting and Rearranging. Physical Methods and the Transformation of Modern Chemistry. Sagamore Beach, Mass.: Science History Publications, 2006
Experimenting with Life’s Potential: The Bio-Politics of Nutrition
Robyn Smith's project worked with the claim that the social sciences can use the data of the life sciences to inform and nuance our understanding of "
Funding Institutions, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada