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The Strange as Knowledge: Collecting the Anomalous and Marvelous within Late Imperial China
In this project, I am interested in how the strange was conceived as an ontological, epistemological, and moral category within Chinese encyclopedias
COST STSM Summer Fellowship: China's Engagement in European Research, Innovation, and Higher Education
This project seeks to shed light on China’s engagement in European research, innovation, and higher education, a critical endeavor in view of how Chin
Agriculture in the Mamluk Period before and after the Mongol Invasion
My research focuses on agricultural knowledge and methods from the thirteenth to the fifteenth century in Bilād al-Shām and Egypt to be found in agric
Subjectivity and Diagnosis in Greek and Roman Medicine
What role, if any, did empathy play in the epistemology of healing within Greco-Roman rational medicine? This is the ultimate question of my project,
Anna Lisa Ahlers quoted in Süddeutsche Zeitung on the rise of China in the global system of science
Go to Article (German, Paywall)Anna Lisa Ahlers in der Süddeutschen Zeitung über den Aufstieg Chinas im globalen Wissenschaftssystem
Zum Artikel (deutsch, Paywall)Astronomy of the Early Modern Era
This research area studies turning points in the history of modern astronomy in Copernicus and Kepler.
Decoding the Pantheon Columns
The goal of this study has been to reconstruct the design principles underlying the construction of the Pantheon’s portico columns as well as to demon
Mastering the Soil and Measuring Flow in Early Modern Istanbul
Drawing on court records, repair registers, as well as archaeological and visual evidence, this project examines the nature of the premodern occupatio
Popular Science Representations of Artificial Intelligence Research: Investigating the Values of Doing Science in China
China’s communist government has always understood its rule to be scientifically enlightened. Even though the ideal society that China’s eli
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Against this backdrop, this project uses the sociology of knowledge approach to discourse to look at the breadth of science popularization materials p