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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
Prepositional Bodies
Focusing on Manchu-language discussions about anatomy and materia medica in a number of textual genres, the project looks critically at efforts to use
The Laws of Habit
Victorian Britons and their American contemporaries were obsessed with habit. The term served as a catch-all category for a host of anxieties—from man
A Historical and Critical Neuroscience of Music
Over the past twenty years neuroscience huge strides have been made in our understanding of how the brain reacts to music, and representations of musi
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
Promoting Techniques in Confucian Statecraft: Pak Chega’s “Technology Policy” in Late Eighteenth-Century Korea
Upon returning from his tributary mission to Beijing in 1788, a member of the Korean literati named Pak Chega (1750–1805) drafted a travelogue titled
Synchronizing Sounded Communities: Acoustical Practices in the Minute’s Silence and Early Radio Theory
My project is a contribution to the history of listening techniques. It compares practices of listening in the minute’s silence, as they were programm
Sound and the Legal Imagination
Law is permeated by sound. From auditory forensics to court reporting, oral testimony, or the hearsay doctrine, there is hardly an area of law that do
Harmonies at Work: Musical Instruments and the Transfer of Knowledge in Early Acoustics
This project concerns the role of musical instruments and artisanal knowledge in early acoustics. It is through instruments and objects that sound, ot