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Thinking in Many Tongues
This working group and reading seminar, running over two years in 2016–17, brought together around a dozen historians and philologists with diverse ki
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Reading Seminar, 5 October 2016 Etymology , Participants, Wolfgang Behr
Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action
In the wake of the nineteenth-century invention of photography, the historical semantics of "exposure" broadened to include exposing a sensitized surf
Lorraine Daston featured in an article in Tagesspiegel on the 100 most important academics in Berlin
Go To Article (German, Paywall)The American Chimpanzee: Creating a Scientific Resource, 1915–1995
Prial’s project traces the history of chimpanzees as laboratory animals in the United States during the twentieth century, considering how parts of th
The Evolution of Social Sciences in China since the late 1970s
Social sciences arguably only emerged in the People’s Republic of China in the late 1970s when the Chinese economic reform began. This research projec
Reconstructing Rigor: An Inquiry into the Nature of Rigor and its Meta-Methodological Consequences for the Social Sciences
In the aftermath of the “replication crisis,” throughout the “science wars,” and in wider discussions on the rules of research and the responsibility
An Imagined Human Body: A Study of Chinese Medical Manuscripts
The focus of this project is on how medical knowledge was produced through practice. In particular, how medical imagination grew locally and changed t
The Mask—Arrayed
The Mask-Arrayed explores the material, technological, and cultural aspects of the most iconic artifact of the COVID-19 crisis—the face mask. His
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Popular Ming Field Allocation Maps: Between Origins and Afterlife
This research is concerned with field allocation (fenye 分野) maps found across the popular Ming encyclopedias, beginning from the early seventeenth cen
How Fenye Entered Local Gazetteers
More than ten thousand local gazetteers have been preserved in China and most of them include special chapters on fenye (field allocation). Fenye, whi