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Reading Group | Nov 16, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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![Tray and samples of the textile cabinet in the Textielmuseum in Tilburg](https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/styles/newsletter_teaser_list_square/public/2023-02/Textielmuseum-cabinet-16.jpg?itok=3C2wcoNz)
Reading Group | Dec 11, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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![Tray and samples of the textile cabinet in the Textielmuseum in Tilburg](https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/styles/newsletter_teaser_list_square/public/2023-02/Textielmuseum-cabinet-16.jpg?itok=3C2wcoNz)
Reading Group | Jun 8, 2023 | 16:30 to 18:00
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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Human/Animal Division in Nineteenth-Century Russian Medical and Ethnographic Accounts
Based upon works of medical practitioners and ethnographers, the project explores the environmental imagery of animal waste and the corresponding huma
At the Edge of Land and Ocean: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Fish Skin
This project addresses multiple issues related to contemporary sustainable fashion practices, with approaches inspired by Arctic fish skin heritage, s
An Imagined Human Body: A Study of Chinese Medical Manuscripts
The focus of this project is on how medical knowledge was produced through practice. In particular, how medical imagination grew locally and changed t
Ayako Sakurai
Ayako Sakurai obtained a PhD in history of science at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Her d...
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The Mask—Arrayed
The Mask-Arrayed explores the material, technological, and cultural aspects of the most iconic artifact of the COVID-19 crisis—the face mask. His
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Popular Ming Field Allocation Maps: Between Origins and Afterlife
This research is concerned with field allocation (fenye 分野) maps found across the popular Ming encyclopedias, beginning from the early seventeenth cen
Society, Rituals, and Ecology: An Environmental Approach to Water Laws in Classical Islamic Legal Traditions
This project explores the intricate relationship between religious regulations, societal practices, and environmental considerations in the realm of c