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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
Workshop | Apr 11-Apr 12, 2019
Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East
Dept. III
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The Liver in Egypt: Productions of an Organ through 20th-century Public Health and Political Economy
The Liver in Egypt chronicles the fate of Egyptian bodies, and specifically their livers, through a collection of epistemological, political, and
Colloquium | Jul 9, 2019 | 14:00 to 15:30
Tuning the World: Aesthetics, Acoustics, Industry, and Global Politics (1834–1939)
MoreTheory as "A Plan" – Asking about the Effects of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox in Analytic Work
Developing an analogy between theories and plans in articulating a theory of epistemics in planning, this project has grown out of my multiyear involv
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The Information Order of the Prussian Frontier, 1772–1806
In 1793 the Prussian government conducted a survey, called the Indaganda (things which must be hunted or tracked down), of towns in the province of So
Elefanten-Elfenbein, Zoos und Artensterben im Zeitalter des Imperialismus (1870er-1940er Jahre)
No 63
Elefanten gehören zu den Tieren, die im Zoo, im Zirkus und in Naturschutzgebieten weltweit am häufigsten zur Schau gestellt werden. Die wild lebenden Elefantenpopulationen in Afrika und Asien sind jedoch vom Aussterben bedroht, was zum Teil auf den weltweiten Bedarf an Elfenbein zurückzuführen ist. In ihrem Forschungsprojekt verfolgt die Postdoktorandin Marianna Szczygielska die historischen Wege des kolonialen Handels mit Elefanten und Elfenbein mit dem Schwerpunkt Osteuropa als Region ohne Überseegebiete. Ihre Forschung zeigt, wie über die direkten Mittel der kolonialen Dominanz hinaus mit den Körpern von Elefanten als Stellvertretern der imperialen Macht die materiellen Verknüpfungen zwischen Arten, Ethnien und transnationalen Warennetzwerken gestaltet wurden. Zur Schau gestellte exotische Tiere und ihre Körperteile, die in den Weltwirtschaften als Rohstoffe zirkulieren, tragen Bedeutungen, die mit dem Kolonialismus und der imperialen Macht in Zusammenhang stehen. Dieses Projekt untersucht das komplexe Tierverständnis an der Schnittstelle zwischen naturkundlicher Erfassung, wissenschaftlicher Erkenntnisgewinnung und öffentlicher Bildung.
Marianna Szczygielska
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Elephant Ivory, Zoos, and Extinction in the Age of Imperialism (1870s–1940s)
No 63
Elephants are some of the most widely displayed animals in zoos, circuses, and wildlife sanctuaries across the world. Their wild populations in Africa and Asia, however, are at risk of extinction, due in part to a global demand for ivory. In her research project, Postdoctoral Fellow Marianna Szczygielska traces the historical trajectories of colonial trades in elephants and ivory, focusing on Eastern Europe as a region without overseas territories. Her research shows how elephant bodies, as proxies of imperial power, shape the material links between species, race, and transnational commodity networks reaching beyond the direct means of colonial dominance. Exotic animals on display and their bodily parts, circulating in global economies as raw materials, carry meanings connected to colonialism and imperial power. This project explores complex understandings of animals at the interface between natural history collecting, scientific knowledge production, and popular education.
Marianna Szczygielska
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A Political Ecology of Sound Insulation
My project counts the cost paid for sound’s insulation as a reproducible matter of concern. The “political ecology” I am assembling documents the impo
The Material Culture of Temples in North China, 1400–1900
This study of the material culture embodied in Chinese temples and their paraphernalia in the late imperial era attempted to demonstrate how the North