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Western Scholars’ Study on the Science and Technology of Silk in China
The parts of Qin Ding Shou shi tong kao 欽定授時通考 (Ortai et al. 1742) and Tian gong kai wu 天工開物 (Song YingXing 1637) dealing with sericult
Death’s Paperwork: Gender, Authority, and Memory in Early Modern Science
I propose to consider the posthumous handling of the papers of seventeenth-century British naturalists and medical practitioners. When a naturalist di
Papering Over the Gendered Body: Clelia Mosher, the Posture Sciences, and the Schematograph
One of Dr. Clelia Duel Mosher’s professional life goals was to fix the American slouch, making all the “uneven shoulders and hips, the drooping heads,
Padded Sounds: The Latent Aurality of Anechoic Chambers
What sonic models propagate in anechoic setups? What spatial ontologies and sonic materialities are fostered in echoless surroundings? How do environm
Sound Modernities? Histories of Architecture, Design, and Space
During the twentieth century, modern architectural acoustics, in tandem with sound technologies such as the radio and telecommunication networks, gave
Event, Sound Modernities Workshop
Planning for Persistent Environmental Contamination: Public Health, Indigenous Traditional Knowledge, and Technoscience in Canada
The Canadian oil industry operates predominantly on First Nations treaty lands using in situ methods of bitumen extraction to feed an insatiable globa
The History of Algorithmic Sound Production
The act of composing a musical piece has been linked to notions of inspiration, self-expression, and ingenuity since at least the Romantic period. In
Pascual Jordan: Science and Politics in Three Germanies
Ryan Dahn's research focused on German physicist Pascual Jordan’s (1902–1980) role as a scientist, public intellectual, and political actor in three r
Circumscribing Knowledge: Paper Trials and Men of Learning in Eighteenth-Century Europe
Paper trials were a European-wide phenomenon in the eighteenth century. Born of the experimental culture that informed the “new sciences,” paper trial
Survey Blanks, Economized Reproduction, and the Gendered Work of Population
In the mid-1950s, the University of Michigan’s Survey Research Center sent out a team of female interviewers to speak to 2,713 women selected to be re