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Music and Transience in the Historiography of Six Dynasties China
Ephemerality and politics lie at the heart of this group project on early medieval China. We intend to analyze how elites coped with the destructive q
Dealing with Transience during the Sixteen States Period of Early Medieval China
The period of the Sixteen States (304–439) in northern China was characterized by rather short-lived regimes, mostly founded by “non-Han” rulers belon
Genealogies of Anthropogenic Change
The project aims to map the emergence of a specifically “anthropogenic” change and study its distinctive character as a new kind of change. Anthropoge
Comparing Ancient Medical Encyclopedia: The Nineveh Medical Compendium (Mesopotamia) and the Donguibogam (Korea)
Definition and Division in Medieval Latin Commentaries on Aristotle’s De animalibus
Definition is one of the most disputed elements of Aristotle’s scientific methodology. In difficult passages of the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle ask
Dror Weil
Dror Weil received his PhD from Princeton University's Department of East Asian St...
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Translatability and Innovation: Sebastian Münster’s Cosmographia (1544) in Translation between Languages, Media, and Practices
Translation is an intellectual product that is as much determined by its past in the source domain as it is shaped by its future in the target domain.
Fabrizio Baldassarri
Fabrizio Baldassarri (PhD, Philosophy and Anthropology, University of Parma; BA/MA, University o...
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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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Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
The founder of the Ming dynasty in China, Zhu Yuanzhang (1328-98), and his successors used translations and inter-cultural correspondences (or equival