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Blood Groups and the Rise of Human Genetics in the Mid-Twentieth Century
This project offered a new postwar history of human genetics, by examining how, in mid-twentieth century Britain, blood groups were made into objects
Art, Optics, and Practical Mathematics. Networks of Art and Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlands
Art historians have paid much attention to the use of perspective in seventeenth century Netherlandish painting. Their geometrical knowledge and the p
Funding Institutions, Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO)
Color and Aesthetics in Eighteenth-century Mineralogy
According to followers of René Haüy (1743–1822), minerals were classified according to basic crystallized shapes, and for mineralogical geologists the
German Expatriate Practitioners of Natural History in 19th-century East Asia
In the nineteenth century, the Asia Pacific experienced extensive and systematic cataloging of their fauna and flora. The aim of my visit is to co-org
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While the workshop limits its geographical scope to Asia Pacific, it raises historiographical issues relevant to the broader historical community. Fir
Art, Natural Science, Local History and the New World in Counter–Reformation Antwerp: The Collection of the Portuguese Merchant-Banker Emmanuel Ximenez
This project investigated one of the most splendid collections in early seventeenth-century Antwerp, that of the Portuguese merchant-banker Emmanuel X
Publications, Dupré, Sven: Trading luxury glass, picturing collections and consuming objects of knowledge in early seventeenth-century Antwerp”, Intellectual History Review, vol. 20, 2010, 53-78., Related Links, Reading the Inventory
Artists’ Collections in the Early Modern Netherlands
While Early Modern Netherlandish painters were often avid collectors, systematic research on artists' collecting is missing. Which networks did they u
Publications, Dupré, Sven & Lüthy, Christoph (eds.): Silent Messengers: The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, Berlin, LIT Verlag, 2011., Funding Institutions, Research Foundation—Flanders (FWO)
Crafting a Natural History of Art in Early Modern Antwerp
This project examined the relationship between craft, curiosity, and the pursuit of natural knowledge in Antwerp during the second half of the sevente
Transforming Human-Camel Relations in the Context of Social and Ecological Dynamics in Somaliland
In Somaliland, the camel is superlative in every respect: it is culturally iconic, socio-economically essential, and the country exhibits the highest
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Cabinetizing Art and Knowledge in Early Modern Northern Europe
In recent years, a vast amount of scholarship has been devoted to early modern collections and particularly to the so-called "cabinet of curiosity," d
Die Ökologisierung der demilitarisierten Zone Koreas: Felder, Tiere und Wissenschaft während des Kalten Krieges
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Nach dem Waffenstillstand des Koreakrieges wurde 1953 die demilitarisierte Zone Koreas (DMZ) geschaffen, eine 250 Kilometer lange und vier Kilometer breite Pufferzone. Als eine der weltweit bekanntesten Militärlandschaften ist dieses Gebiet auch ein Ort, an dem die Verteidigung zufällig mit dem Umweltschutz zusammengefallen ist.
Jaehwan Hyun
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