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Language and Governance in Qing Inner Asia
Establishing and promulgating standard languages were essential features of state-building in nation states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
The Strange as Knowledge: Collecting the Anomalous and Marvelous within Late Imperial China
In this project, I am interested in how the strange was conceived as an ontological, epistemological, and moral category within Chinese encyclopedias
Agriculture in the Mamluk Period before and after the Mongol Invasion
My research focuses on agricultural knowledge and methods from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in Bilād al-Shām and Egypt to be found in agric
Matteo Valleriani in an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur on the benefits of AI-supported research
Go to Podcast (in German)Matteo Valleriani im Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur über die Vorteile von KI-gestützter Forschung
Zum PodcastLaurence Douny
Laurence Douny is an Anthropologist and Africanist. In 2007, she earned her PhD from University ...
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Irina Podgorny
Irina Podgorny is a permanent research fellow at the Argentine National Council of Science (CONI...
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The Nail of the Great Beast: A Story of Substitution, Trade, and Animal Medical Substances
This project examines the path of the uña de la gran bestia or great beast’s nail, a remedy that appeared in the therapeutics on both sides of the Atl
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Science as Prophecy: Measuring Past and Future Climates
"Climate" defies easy definition. It is a malleable concept, one that historians have increasingly recognized is mediated by diverse cultural practice
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