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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
The Bare Necessities: Histories of Provisioning from the Second World War to the Present
The Bare Necessities: Histories of Provisioning from the Second World War to the Present (Deadline 25. Februar 2018)
Jan 8, 2018The Bare Necessities: Histories of Provisioning from the Second World War to the Present
The Bare Necessities: Histories of Provisioning from the Second World War to the Present (deadline February 28, 2018)
Jan 8, 2018Contesting the "Laws of Life": Sexual Science and Sexual Politics in the Early Twentieth Century
At the turn of the twentieth century, sex, its regulation, and its role in underwriting social order, were politicized as never before. Across Europe,
Historicizing the Applied Humanities
The term “applied humanities” first appeared in the 1950s, when cybernetics and then the postwar reform of school and university education prompted th
Personal webpage, Anke te Heesen, Chair for the History of Science
Citizen Science of the Human Mind: At-Home Baby Observers in Gilded Age America
This book project illustrates how members of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae (ACA), most prominent among them Milicent Shinn, a graduate of the
Publications
Christine von Oertzen, Science in the Cradle: Milicent Shinn and Her Home-Based Network of Baby Observers, 1890-1910, in: Centaurus 52, Read
13. Studientag für Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Blockseminar „13. Studientag für Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte“ (Deadline 25. Februar 2018)
Jan 12, 201813th Scholars’ Forum for Literature and the History of Science
Block Seminar “13th Scholars’ Forum for Literature and the History of Science” (deadline February 25, 2018)
Jan 12, 2018At the Front Door? Women Scientists at the Humboldt University, 1946–1961
The project investigates the conditions faced by female academics at the University of Berlin from its reopening in 1946 until 1961. It asks whether t