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Kaveh Yazdani
Kaveh Yazdani was born in Tehran and raised in Paris and Berlin. He received his PhD degree from...
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The Evolution of Scientific Visual Language in Early Modern Science: A Machine-Learning Based Analysis
This research wishes to define and describe the evolution of visual language in early modern astronomy. This project is a part of the research group “
Congenital Anomalies in Medieval French Romance and Medicine
The appearance of unusual or non-normative physical, intellectual, and developmental traits in newborn infants perplexed premodern medical and literar
Of the Astral Divinities and Heavens in South, Central, and East Asia
This project investigates the material culture and visual imagery representing the astral divinities and heavenly knowledge as they existed in South A
Storying Turtle Shell Masks and the Lives of Spirits
This project is sited with Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down and focuses on two turtle shell masks taken from the eastern Torres Strait in the ninet
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Forgotten People in the Mongol Empire and the Ming Dynasty
In my book Khubilai Khan, published in 1988, I wrote that “Khubilai eliminated a discriminatory practice and altered the biases against occupational g
Transience in Death and Burial of Six Dynasties China
Creating, adorning, and furnishing tombs was never only used as a means of expressing filial piety and handling grief, but also as a way of coping wit
Got Milk? Historical Molecular and Microbiomic Interventions in the Gene-Culture Coevolution of Lactase Persistence
The ability to digest the key sugar in fresh milk, lactose, owes to the activity of a special enzyme produced during infancy known as lactase. Product
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Our inquiry focuses upon how changing diagnostic tools have either reinforced or countered longstanding scientific understandings about the global dis
Investigating the Human Psyche through Motor Skills: A History of Technical Psychological Testing
Since Antiquity, it has been debated whether the hand or the mind is what makes humans intelligent. My project, situated between the history of techno
Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
This project explores visualizations of the cosmos in writing and objects in the Western Mediterranean region during Hellenistic times (ca&n