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The World Needs Supergrids, But There's a Problem
MoreAnimal Fibers, Commerce, and the Rise of New Analytical Techniques
In the first decades of the twentieth century, fiber materials from plants and animals were intensively studied with new analytical techniques, includ
Forgotten People in the Mongol Empire and the Ming Dynasty
In my book Khubilai Khan, published in 1988, I wrote that “Khubilai eliminated a discriminatory practice and altered the biases against occupational g
Transience: Politics and Practices of Time in the Chinese Period of Division (4th–7th centuries)
This working group explores how Chinese elites in the Period of Division coped with the ephemerality that marked their time. We ask how changes in soc
Were We Ever at Peace? The Irreversible Entanglement of Science, Politics and Regimes of Knowledge Control
MoreInvestigating the Human Psyche through Motor Skills: A History of Technical Psychological Testing
Since Antiquity, it has been debated whether the hand or the mind is what makes humans intelligent. My project, situated between the history of techno
Through the Socio-epistemic Networks Lens: Argentinian and Polish Discourses on Petroleum, 1880–1910
Migrants have long been presented as interlocutors of transnational communication of knowledge, but in what ways can we measure and begin to understan
Tina Asmussen
Tina Asmussen gained her doctorate in Early Modern History from the University of Lucerne with a...
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Christina Dörfling
Christina Dörfling is a doctoral candidate at the Department of Musicology, Music Theory, Compos...
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Georgi Georgiev
Georgi Georgiev is a doctoral candidate in comparative history at the Central European Universit...
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