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Dome of Heaven: Buddhist Architecture along the Silk Road
Dome of Heaven challenges the Orientalist view about Asian domes as derivatives of Roman/Byzantine domes and refreshes the dominant approach that inve
“Heal Thyself": Citizens and the Construction of Knowledges of Care in Contemporary Iran
My dissertation focuses on three interwoven areas linked to knowledges of care in contemporary Iran: the notion of the healthy body and mind as identi
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Comparative Study of Mission-Oriented R&D Organizations
The debate about “Little Science” and “Big Science” put forward by Derek J. De Solla Price in 1963 was an important driver for promoting profound refo
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This project aims to explore attempts to build idealized model of mission-oriented R&D organizations, comparing several cases of national and mult
New Research Department “Knowledge Systems and Collective Life” to Explore Environment, Politics, and Society
Pressemitteilung (PDF)Neue Abteilung „Knowledge Systems and Collective Life“ zur Erforschung von Umwelt, Politik und Gesellschaft
Pressemitteilung (PDF)Chinese Ideas of Africa in an Age of Global Expansion
The study of Africa and of Afro-Asian connections was, since its appearance in Chinese academia in the 1960s, heavily influenced by foreign policy tow
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The rapidly growing field of African Studies in China thus presented itself as an ideal arena for thinking through tensions between politics, economic
Di Luo
Di Luo is Chu-Niblack Assistant Professor of Art History and Architectural Studies at Connecticu...
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Divna Valerieva Manolova
A graduate of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (BA in Philosophy) and Central European Un...
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MehrSacred Crafts: Artisans and Buddhist Monasteries in Premodern China and Japan
During the Song (960–1276) and Yuan (1271–1368) dynasties, Buddhist monasteries in southeastern China continuously increased in both scale and wealth.