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The Material Culture of Temples in North China, 1400–1900
This study of the material culture embodied in Chinese temples and their paraphernalia in the late imperial era attempted to demonstrate how the North
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
No 65
Es begann alles mit einem Mittagessen und drei Kolleginnen, die sich über historische Notizbücher unterhielten. Als Technologien der Wissensgenerierung, so stellten sie fest, waren Notizbücher gut erforscht. Wie aber verhielt es sich mit der Geschlechtsspezifik des Arbeitens mit Papier? Wessen Hände beschrifteten, falteten, hefteten, schleppten und fertigten den Werkstoff in Werkstätten, Haushalten und Laboratorien? Und wie stand die Materialität des Papiers im Zusammenhang mit Geschlechteridentitäten und geschlechtlichen Körpern?
Carla Bittel
Elaine Leong
Christine von Oertzen
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Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
No 65
It all began with lunch and three colleagues talking about notebooks. As paper technologies, they noted, notebooks had certainly been recognized by historians as vital instruments for knowledge making. But what about gender and paper practices, and the gendering of “paper work?” From the household to the laboratory, whose hands inscribed, carried, folded, twisted, pinned, and shuffled these materials? And how did the materiality of paper intersect with gender identities and gendered bodies?
Carla Bittel
Elaine Leong
Christine von Oertzen
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From Text to Speech: Re-Embodying Voice and Disembodying Difference
Historians of science have narrated the development of sonic technology as a process of cleaving sounds from the humans that produce them. Of course,
The Global History of the Swing
This project traces the history of an object that has accompanied us since immemorial times, from pre-imperial China and from the Greek legends of Eri
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Instruments of God: Toward a Metaphysics of Music Theory
Histories of music theory in the eighteenth century are generally written as triumphant narratives of the scientific successes of experimental philoso
Büchernarr und Zeichenkünstler: Warum Leonardo da Vinci kein Universalgenie war
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More“Nuclear Classroom on Wheels” as a Diplomatic Gift: The IAEA’s Mobile Radioisotope Laboratories
A myriad of material devices, both large and small, crossed continents and formed the backbones of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s technical
Contagion in the Cultural Imagination of Victorian England
Debolina’s project, “Contagion in the Cultural Imagination of Victorian England” looked at disease as a form, and argued that for disease to attain it