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The Role of Animals in Bohai and Jurchen Societies: on the Base of Studies of the Archaeological Materials from Medieval Sites in the Russian Far East
The goals of this research project are the consideration, analysis and interpretation of the archaeological materials for an understanding of the role
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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Artifice Embodied: Perfecting Renaissance Nature and the Invention of Race
In the sixteenth century, Europeans set out to control nature by “taking charge of race,” in the words of heretic philosopher Tommaso Campanella. The
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Animal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports
Animals disturb airports in multiple ways while also being an integral part of their modus operandi. Airports create their own ecosystems that are emb
Man-Like Apes: Chimps, Gorillas, Orangutans, and European Explorers
This project traces and analyzes British and European early attempts to make sense of great apes. Monkeys and apes, claims Donna Haraway in Primate Vi
Ecologizing Borderlands, Racializing Border People: The International Biological Program (IBP) in South Korea, 1963–1975
Vanishing nature and people became central concerns for biologists after World War II. In this context, American and European biologists established t
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The Silkworm Project
Vivian's project as Artist in Residence was an artist book of her bio machine art series "The Silkworm Project," working closely with Lisa Onaga and t
German Expatriate Practitioners of Natural History in 19th-century East Asia
In the nineteenth century, the Asia Pacific experienced extensive and systematic cataloging of their fauna and flora. The aim of my visit is to co-org
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While the workshop limits its geographical scope to Asia Pacific, it raises historiographical issues relevant to the broader historical community. Fir
The Energetics of the “Muscle Machine”: From Isolated Muscle to Proteins, Fibers, and Filaments
My project examines the role that research on the mechanism of muscle contraction played in scientists’ efforts to understand biological energy transf
Optical Cultures of Fibers and Viruses, 1916–1984
The visualization and imagination of biological structures at sub-microscopic scales is one of the defining features of modern biology. Our sense of t
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