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Buzz: A Stimulating History of Sex Toys
The research project "Buzz: A Stimulating History of Sex Toys" seeks to understand why our attitudes towards sex toys have shifted over the past half
Dyeing for Permanence: Communities of Practice and the Making of Bingata
Celebrated as a traditional Okinawan craft, bingata (vermilion patterns) refers to a technique of printing colorful and intricate patterns on fabric t
After Mapping the Avant-Garde: Music, Experimentalism, Technology, Science
This dissertation project is an interdisciplinary research study on the networks of the first twenty years of the WDR’s Electronic Music Studio in Col
Crystals, Colloids, and Fibers: The Organization of (Living) Matter and the Limits of Microscopic Vision, 1882–1938
What does it mean for living matter to be “organized”? For much of the nineteenth century it was assumed that the complexity of vital phenomena corres
Collecting Artifacts in the Age of Empire
European identity is inextricable from Europe’s views about other peoples. During the early modern period, overseas artifacts entered princely and sch
Appareil du sens—Concepts of the Human Senses in Scientific Observations
This project examined the conceptualization of the human senses in observational practices from 1750 to 1830. Starting with a discussion on the task o
Publications, “Haut und Zirkel. Ein Entstehungsherd: Ernst Heinrich Webers Untersuchungen ‘Ueber den Tastsinn’,“ in: Michael Hagner (ed.), Ansichten der Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 2001, pp. 191–223., Funding Institutions, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
Enhancing the Human: Sensory Enhancement and the Materiality of the Senses, 1910–1970
This project concerned a history of perception through the eyes of soldiers, factory workers, and office clerks: the ways in which human perception wa
Publications, “The Neuromance of Cerebral History,” in: S. Choudhury and J. Slaby (eds.), Critical Neuroscience, Blackwell (2011).
A China-Centered Perspective on the Travels of Rice, Tea, and Cotton through Early Modern Eurasia
During the colonial period, Westerners deliberately planned the introduction of valuable Asian crops such as rice, tea, or cotton to territories under
The Industrial Organism
During the long nineteenth century, biologists and geologists developed a teleological theory of evolution according to which organic entities exhibit
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External/Cooperation Event | Nov 9, 2020 | 17:00 to 18:00
Online Event: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award Ceremony 2020 (in German)
MPIWG Director Dagmar Schäfer is presented with the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Award.
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