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Reading Group | Jul 26, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
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Hermeneutics of the Field: The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Agriculture
This project seeks to identify a heuristic epistemology that lies between practical knowledge and theoretical explanation in early modern European agr
German Scientists, their Observationes, and Ties to the Latin Americas in the Seventeenth Century
In the seventeenth century, the mobility of knowledge arising from contact with the Latin Americas extended beyond Iberia to German scientists. In 162
Anthropocene Curriculum
The Anthropocene as a contemporary challenge demands a new form of engagement, also for the history of science. The profession cannot stop at mere his
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Since 2012 the Department has maintained a close working relationship with the HKW in its two-year “Anthropocene Project” as well as its follow-up pro
Experiencing Nature through Old and New Epistemes around the Globe
The colonial encounter holds a central place in the global history of early modern science. Missionary explorations and military voyages sponsored by
Keeping Time With the Earth
When the second-most-destructive earthquake in Mexico City’s history struck on September 19, 2017, 32 years to the day after the most-destructive eart
Deep Time Labscapes: Exploring natural analogue studies in geology and glaciology
For human society, the Anthropocene is characterized by enormous gains in control, but also by dramatic losses of control. "Deep Time Labscapes" explo
"It Is Madness, Downright Madness": The (Im)morality of Attempts to Measure the Universe
Numeracy, by which I mean counting, calculating, and measuring, was ubiquitous in Greek and Roman antiquity, it informed the production of account ins
Animal Mobilities
This project examines how scientific knowledge production has mobilized and is mobilized by animals and animality. We inquire into how animal movement
Working Group Participants, Susanne Bauer, Yubin Shen
Reaping the Benefits of Water: The Technological Underpinnings of Political Reform in Eleventh-Century China
Much of the discussion of the Qingli 慶曆 and Xifeng 熙豐 reforms in eleventh-century China has hitherto focused on their economic and intellectual dimens