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Science and the Senses: A Sensory History of Scientific Knowledge in South Asia
Science and the Senses is a study of scientific practices in relation to sensory practices, lying at the intersection of modern South Asian history, h
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Workshop | Apr 11-Apr 12, 2019
Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East
Dept. III
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The Liver in Egypt: Productions of an Organ through 20th-century Public Health and Political Economy
The Liver in Egypt chronicles the fate of Egyptian bodies, and specifically their livers, through a collection of epistemological, political, and
Colloquium | Jul 9, 2019 | 14:00 to 15:30
Tuning the World: Aesthetics, Acoustics, Industry, and Global Politics (1834–1939)
MoreTheory as "A Plan" – Asking about the Effects of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox in Analytic Work
Developing an analogy between theories and plans in articulating a theory of epistemics in planning, this project has grown out of my multiyear involv
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The Information Order of the Prussian Frontier, 1772–1806
In 1793 the Prussian government conducted a survey, called the Indaganda (things which must be hunted or tracked down), of towns in the province of So
Elefanten-Elfenbein, Zoos und Artensterben im Zeitalter des Imperialismus (1870er-1940er Jahre)
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Elephant Ivory, Zoos, and Extinction in the Age of Imperialism (1870s–1940s)
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A Political Ecology of Sound Insulation
My project counts the cost paid for sound’s insulation as a reproducible matter of concern. The “political ecology” I am assembling documents the impo
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