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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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Theatrical Spoken-Word Records in Germany and France, 1950–1970: Repertoire, Production, Distribution, Use
No history of sound recording technologies will be complete without attending to the history of theater. Phonographic companies began to produce recor
Rationality of Noise: Gathering Acoustic Information during the Cold War
This project focuses on a historical moment when noise was a political concern. During its first decades, the 1950s and 1960s, Radio Free Europe (RFE)
State, Mining, and Transfer of Innovation in Early Modern Europe
In a comparative way, my project attempts to analyze particular channels and personae involved in the transfer of practical, scientific and administra
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Wefts of Innovation in Premodern China (13th–17th Century)
“Cloths are for all (衣被群生)” declared the Chinese statesman Ouyang Xiu歐陽修(1007–1071) once in a memorandum to the throne. Although Ouyang did not s
Science and the Senses: A Sensory History of Scientific Knowledge in South Asia
Science and the Senses is a study of scientific practices in relation to sensory practices, lying at the intersection of modern South Asian history, h
Colloquium | Jun 26, 2019 | 18:15 bis 19:45
Making Tape: The Regime of Spools, Razors, and Cassettes
MehrSound Effects: Technicians and the Talkies in the American Film Industry, 1925–1933
The story of the transition from silent to sound motion pictures in the United States is a tale filled with drama and conflict, but this history has l