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Experiencing the Global Environment
Viewing the earth from a spaceship—or looking at the pictures taken from one—the observer can visualize the wholeness of our planet as well as the int
Workshop
Author's Workshop, August 2-4, 2016
Public Workshop, Feb 4-6, 2016
The Strait in the Cold War
The movie Das Boot followed the fictional German submarine U-96 as its captain tried to sail from the Atlantic into the Mediterranean to assist in the
Data That Travel: Climates between Africa, Europe, and the Globe
"Data That Travel: Climates Between Africa and Europe" examines the conditions of climatological data collection efforts in colonial Africa and the pr
Embodying Color: How Color is Made, Mobilized, and Owned in Traditional Craft Practice in South India
Craft producers in India stand in the shadow of deep divisions: rich/poor, urban/rural, modern/traditional, Brahmin/Dalit, educated scientist/illitera
Tuning the World: Aesthetics, Acoustics, Industry, and Global Politics (1834–1939)
Now commonly adopted as the point of reference for musicians in the Western world, A 440hz only became the standard pitch during an international
The Relations between the Epistemic Virtues of Impartiality and Objectivity in French Nineteenth-Century Historiography
The starting point of this research project is the recent work on the role of epistemic virtues in science practices and the formation of scientific o
Exploring the Origins of Earth System Science
Earth System Science (ESS) underpins our contemporary collective and scientific representation of the Earth. It is grounded in the institutional work
Beauty and the Microscope: The Use, Design, and Values of Fashionable Instruments in the Enlightenment
Ian Lawson's new project investigates the fashion for microscopes, and other optical instruments, in the eighteenth century—after their initial popula
Feeding Germany: Nutrition and the German Countryside, 1871–1923
This project examines scientific eating and the science of nutrition in Germany between 1871 and 1923. It probes notions of what it meant for food to
Men, Women, and the Posthumous Papers of Seventeenth-Century Naturalists
I propose to consider the posthumous handling of the papers of seventeenth-century British naturalists and medical practitioners. As is well known fro