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Frederike van Uildriks (1854–1919). New Woman, Universal Savant and Popular Scientist in the Netherlands
This project focused on Frederike van Uildriks as the author of an enormous and varied output of books and articles, literary reviews, comments, and f
Betwixt the Somatic and the Mnemonic: Mapping Identities in the Global South, c. 1950–1980s
My project explores the scientific attempts to map identities in India and South Africa in the period between 1950 and the 1980s. Such efforts include
Domesticating Air—The Material History of Breathing Safely
This project, conducted with Marie-Thebaud Sorger (CNRS-Paris), seven scholars from Paris, London, Oxford, Berlin, Naples, and Santander, examines the
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Coevolutionary Approaches to the Anthropocene
How can knowledge of long-term human-environmental interactions be developed and transformed so that it is relevant to the environmental problems of t
A Global History of Human Teeth
Much has been written on the history of dentistry but not as much has been written on the history of the human teeth. The first aim of this project wi
Emeritus Hans-Jörg Rheinberger über das Wesen und die Rolle der Wissenschaft in der Gesellschaft
Zur MediathekEmeritus Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on the nature and role of science in society
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I study the history and contemporary development of a Danish collection of 9,479 psychiatric brains collected without consent between 1945 and 1982. T
Performing Brains on Screen
Performing Brains on Screen, a book under contract with the series “Film Culture in Transition” of Amsterdam University Press, deals with film enactme
An "Elusive" Phenomenon: The "Normal" Female Sex Drive
Beginning in the 1880s, inspired in particular by feminists’ challenges to the state regulation of prostitution, female sexuality became the subject o