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Reading Group | May 9-May 10, 2017 | 10:00 to 17:00
Thinking in Many Tongues: Ethnographies of Languages
MoreBiological Diversity and Cultural Pluralism: The Changing Valuation of Complexity in Nature and Culture in Germany and the United States
This project investigated the changing valuation of complexity in nature and culture in Germany and the United States throughout the twentieth century
Scholarly Voyages (Humboldt-Projekt)
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Das Humboldt-Projekt macht Quellen über wissenschaftliche Reisen zu den kanarischen Inseln im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert zugänglich in (Englisch und Spanisch).
Scholarly Voyages (Humboldt Project)
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Scholarly voyages to the Canary Islands in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
A Matter of Time: Transforming Timekeeping in Nineteenth-century Japan
The use of clocks for timekeeping seems to be a straightforward and almost intuitive routine. Yet glancing at mechanical clocks designed in a culture
Publications, Frumer, Y. (2014). Translating Time: Habits of Western-Style Timekeeping in Late Edo Japan. Technology and Culture 55(4), 785-820.
Cold War Rationality
A loose conglomerate of game theory, nuclear strategy, operations research, Bayesian decision theory, systems analysis, rational choice theory, and ex
All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food and Fuel Production, 1929–89
"All Against All: Scientific Prophecies of Food & Fuel Production, 1929–1989" presents a series of case studies in the methods by which social (ec
Communicating Subjective Vision
Carmine Grimaldi's research focused on the physiology of vision in the early nineteenth century, and in particular the investigation of subjective vis
Commentaries on Mathematical Texts in a Comparative Perspective
Commentaries from many cultures and scholarly fields have been edited and studied increasingly over the past years, from a variety of perspectives, ab
Working Group Participants, Karine Chemla, SPHERE, Université Paris VII CNRS, Workshops 2017, Commentaries Workshop, August 1–15, 2017