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Circulating Filth: Oeconomic Chemistry and Recycling, 1700–1830
My research focuses on the history of oeconomic chemistry and recycling in Western Europe, 1700–1830. The term "oeconomy" loosely referred to the prin
Sau-yi Fong
Sau-yi Fong is a PhD candidate in Chinese History at Columbia University. Her dissertation proje...
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Baselining Pollution: Producing “Natural Soil” for Environmental Regulation in Chile
The project "Baselining Pollution: Producing 'Natural Soil' for Environmental Regulation in Chile" examines the practical construction and usage of ba
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Mixing historiographical and ethnographic approaches, and taking inspiration from science and technology studies, this project explores how there is n
Fish, People, Place: The Maritime Landscapes of French Colonialism in the North Atlantic
Marine animals have driven European engagement with northeastern North American coastlines since the earliest years of the sixteenth century. This pro
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Tangut Astrology in Texts, Images, and Material Culture
How and why did astrological knowledge, techniques, beliefs, and forms of representation circulate throughout premodern Eurasia? How were such things
Visual and Material Cultures of Astrology and Astronomy in China and Inner Asia, ca. 10th to 14th Centuries
Medieval Eurasia witnessed widespread circulation of knowledge and beliefs about the visible heavens, the character and consequences of which are in m
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The Chinese Past (and Future?) of Natural Sciences (in German)
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Kooperations-Veranstaltung | Dez 1, 2020
Die chinesische Vergangenheit (und Zukunft?) der Naturwissenschaften
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Gottfried Leibniz’s Networks: Science at the Confluence of Practice and Sociability
My doctoral dissertation analyses the various networks in which the seventeenth-century polymath Gottfried Leibniz was involved and that he himself se