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Nature’s Place at the Colonial Museum
My project explores the unnaturally dominant place of natural history knowledge and practice in Australian settler-colonial science, politics, and his
Adrian Pirtea
Adrian C. Pirtea (PhD, 2017) is a historian of late antique and medieval Western Asia, specializ...
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Serafina Cuomo
Serafina Cuomo studied Philosophy at the Università Federico II in Naples and went on to complet...
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Archaeology of the Astral: Mingling of Astrological and Cosmological Ideas between Early Historic India and Roman Egypt
During his fellowship period at the MPIWG, Dr. Gupta is working on a project in conjunction with the "Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heave
Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative Project (CDLI)
The Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative (CDLI), a cooperation with the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures of the University of Ca
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down (TAWD): Animal Cosmologies and Paths to Indigenous Sciences
The origin stories and cultural narratives of diverse peoples around the world are deeply entwined with principles that guide specific ways of knowing
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Our project collaborators historically examine the normalized imagery of the stacked turtles metaphor by inquiring into the roles of animal cosmologie
The Sociology of Occupations as a Way to Study Yuan-Ming Working Lives
Most people in premodern China spent most of their lives working. Scholarship on work in Yuan and Ming times has addressed large formations and change
Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa (4000 BCE–1700 CE)
Astral practices left their imprint on material culture in many ways: instruments were used and knowledge was inscribed on diverse mediums such as bui
Current Visting Scholars, Sunil Gupta, Previous Visiting Scholars, Ilaria Bultrighini (2021-2022), Previous Group Members, Sonja Brentjes (2017-2023, working group leader 2017-2021)
Visualizations of the Heavens Lecture Series, 2022, May 19, Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
Reading Group, After our successful lecture series, we begin in September a reading group to discuss some of the recent key works in line with the next phase of the , Links, Sep 15, 2022: "Between Greece and Babylonia, Hellenistic Intellectual History in Cross-Cultural Perspective"
The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road
This research project systematically investigates over 1500 thirteenth- to fourteenth-century Old Uyghur prints and closely compares them in terms of
Research Workshop and Conference on Visual Materials in Chinese Local Gazetteers
Research Workshop/ Conference: Visual Materials in Chinese Local Gazetteers (deadline September 15, 2020)
Jul 21, 2020