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Lecture | Jun 20, 2018 | 14:00 bis 18:00
Of Lexical Shells and Textual Monstrosities: Tales of Translation in Late Imperial China
MehrEnlightenment and Imperial Decline: Cultures of Naturalism in the Ottoman Empire, 1650–1750
This project explores the entangled history of naturalism and cosmopolitanism in Ottoman Istanbul. I investigate the interface between artisanal and s
Publications
Küçük, B. H. (2015). The Compass and the Astrolabe: Religion and Early Modern Ottoman Empiricism. In A. Somel, & S. Kenan (Eds.
Empire of Ice: Science, Nature, and the Commerce of Cold
This project investigates imperial articulations of cold as a basic condition of the natural world. Taking the British Empire at its global maximum, “
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Underwater Music: Max Neuhaus and the Electronic Circuit as Post-Musical Score
My research project examines the electronic circuit as a technological, artistic, and social medium that interconnects disparate histories of postwar
Knowledge in Transit
We often think about knowledge being made in specific places, and then passed on to others, so that the making and communicating of knowledge are sepa
Islam through American Eyes: The Life and Culture of Clifford Geertz
In the twentieth century, Western anthropologists studied the social practices of Arab and Muslim communities to an unprecedented extent. In the proce
A Silent Revolution: Infrastructuring Singapore as a Logistics City (1850s–1930s)
Port facilities, stockyards, loading docks, railroad tracks, power grids—functional infrastructures form basic units of both modern cities and logisti
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Herodotus Among the Moderns
Over the centuries, Herodotus’ readers have cast him as “the father of history” and “the father of lies,” as a Greek patriot and a barbarian lover, as
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