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Metaphor & Metaphysic: Henri Bergson & the Language of Epistemology in Fin-de-Siècle France
This project is an inquiry into passages between the material and the immaterial, the literal and the figurative, in the development of epistemologica
A Cultural History of Heredity
This project centered on the scientific and technological practices in which knowledge of heredity was materially entrenched and in which it unfolded
Related digital sources, vlp.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de, Funding Institutions, Government of Liechtenstein
The Scientific and Cultural Phenomenon of European Bison in the 19th–early 20th Century
My research project is focused on European bison, Bison bonasus (a species that was once widespread almost throughout Europe) and the Bialowieza Fores
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Using this expedition as a case, I am going to analyse the re-formulation of the research question in the process of studying European bison: how were
Genealogy and Human Heredity in Germany, Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
All knowledge about human heredity is based on genealogy, but only in the nineteenth century did genealogy become the key method for the study of here
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger in der Neuen Zürcher Zeitung über Zufall und wissenschaftliches Wissen
Zum ArtikelHans-Jörg Rheinberger in Neue Zürcher Zeitung on serendipity and scientific knowledge
Go to ArticleGardening, Fancying, and Heredity
This project investigated the relationship between geneticists in early twentieth-century Europe, animal fanciers (who bred animals to prescribed stan
Funding Institutions, Liechtenstein Funds for the History of Science
Poetry Bound: On the Notational, the Parenthetical, the Composed
While at the MPIWG, I will be working on two essays in an unfolding project on Anglophone poetics: the first, on “the notational” as a mode of poetic
Europe’s Green Revolution: The Rise and Fall of Peasant-Friendly Plant Breeding in Central Europe, 1890–1945
Since the 1940s various programs for agricultural development in the "third world" have been funded by Western governments and foundations. Commonly r
Publications, “Politische-Okonomie der Pflanzenzucht in Deutschland, ca. 1870-1933“ [Political Economy of Plant-Breeding in Germany, ca 1870-1933], in: Susanne Heim (ed.), Autarkie und Ostexpansion: Pflanzenzucht und Agrarforschung im Nationalsozialismus, Göttingen: Wallstein, 2002, pp. 14-33., Funding Institutions, Leverhulme Trust
Exotic Animals and Domestic Life during America's Long Sexual Revolution
This project investigates the transnational and colonial entanglements that made the science of behavioral endocrinology possible. From the 1920s to t