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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
Architecture and Empire in the Reign of Yongle
My project for the Local Gazetteers workshop (August 2016) is to collect information on and map using GIS the sources of the nan-wood timbers used for
Forging Technology for Metals Processing in the Pre-Qin Period
In early Ancient China, natural copper and aerosiderite were made into different kinds of articles by forging techniques, such as copper tomahawk
Translating Medicine in the Premodern World
In recent years, translation (broadly defined) has emerged as a central research strand. Explorations of the epistemic process and impact of knowledge
Dyeing for Permanence: Communities of Practice and the Making of Bingata
Celebrated as a traditional Okinawan craft, bingata (vermilion patterns) refers to a technique of printing colorful and intricate patterns on fabric t
After Mapping the Avant-Garde: Music, Experimentalism, Technology, Science
This dissertation project is an interdisciplinary research study on the networks of the first twenty years of the WDR’s Electronic Music Studio in Col
Hand Mnemonics and Counting Skills: Reducing Uncertainty through Fate Computation
This research focuses on practices and texts related to hand mnemonics in fate prediction methods in contemporary China and Taiwan (with a current foc
Engineering Growth: Infrastructures of Planning in Japanese Overseas Development
My project examines the history of Japan's overseas development system in Asia from its origins in Japan's colonial rule over much of Asia before 1945
Acoustic Knowledge, Sound Technologies, and Music in Early Twentieth-Century India
This project investigates the transformation and co-production of soundscapes, technologies, and sound epistemologies on the Indian subcontinent. In t
Bringing Nature into the Court. The Vatican and Reales Sitios as "Places of Science" (1555–1605)
Elisa Andretta's project was a comparative study of the papal court alongside that of Spain in the second half of the sixteenth century, understood as