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Methods Intensive Workshop | Oct 25-Oct 26, 2018
Oral History and the History of Scientific Practice: A Difficult Dialogue?
MoreEnacting East Africa
My research studies the ambiguities and tensions that emerge as sovereign states integrate economically and politically with their neighbors. In parti
From Tin to Pewter: Craft and Statecraft in Qing China: 1700–1844
This project looks at the epistemic culture of craft and statecraft from 1700 to 1844 by following the trajectory of tin as an ore from the mines to i
Meat, Cattle and a Capital City: Slaughterhouses, Animals and Meat Production in Rio de Janeiro at the End of the Brazilian Empire
If non-human animals have been central to humans, the meat provided by non-human animals has been crucial not only to feed humans through history, but
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Executive Director Dagmar Schäfer on Mobility and Humanities
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MPIWG-Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer über Mobilität und Geisteswissenschaften
MoreVisual and Material Cultures of Astrology and Astronomy in China and Inner Asia, ca. 10th to 14th Centuries
Medieval Eurasia witnessed widespread circulation of knowledge and beliefs about the visible heavens, the character and consequences of which are in m
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The Mask—Arrayed: An Interdisciplinary Project on the Materiality of a Covid-19 Icon
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“The Mask—Arrayed” explores the material, technological, and cultural aspects of the most iconic artifact of the Covid-19 crisis: the face mask. In this interdisciplinary essay project, an international group of scholars and artists unmasks the complexity of this seemingly simple object and unveils its many layers and different usages in both material and non-material terms.