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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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Cartography in Sacroboscoʼs Tract “The Sphere”
The impressive opus “Tractatus de Sphaera/De Sphaera Mundi” (“On the Sphere of the World”), written by Johannes de Sacrobosco (John of Holywood) aroun
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
Disciplining the Sense of Hearing: Auditory Practices in Mid Sixteenth-Century Geneva
This PhD project investigates new modes of listening ("attentive listening"), speaking ("plain" and "sincere speech") and remembering ("word memory")
Publications, Kvíčalová, A. (2014). Sound Signatures 2014: From Hearing Tubes to Computer Hacking. Sensory Studies [Online]., Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
This Working Group explored how paper—as material, meaning, and object—functioned as an epistemic material bridging quotidian and scholarly knowl
„Dissolving Agents as Technologies of Transformation in the Global South“-Workshop, 10.–11. Juli 2018
„Dissolving Agents as Technologies of Transformation in the Global South“-Workshop, 10.–11. Juli 2018. Einreichungsfrist: 31. Januar 2018.
Workshop “Dissolving Agents as Technologies of Transformation in the Global South,” July 10–11, 2018
Workshop “Dissolving Agents as Technologies of Transformation in the Global South,” July 10–11, 2018 (deadline January 31, 2018)
Between Marvel and Machine: The Automaton in the Middle Ages
This project is part of a PhD thesis that focuses on automata imagined and made during the Western Middle Ages. Based on the works of my predecessors