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Ecologizing the Korean Demilitarized Zone: Fields, Animals, and Science during the Cold War
No 68
The Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), a 250-kilometer long and four-kilometer wide buffer zone, was created after the armistice of the Korean War in 1953. One of the most globally recognized militarized landscapes, it is also a site where the incidental convergence of defense activity and environmental protection has taken place.
Jaehwan Hyun
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Bericht über Dagmar Schäfers Vortrag am Institut für Geistes-und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Peking
Newsletter - Universität Peking, Institut für Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften (IHSS) Webseite (Beitrag auf Chinesisch, Seite 52–56)Report on lecture by Dagmar Schäfer at the Peking University Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
Newsletter—Peking University Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (IHSS) Website (Article in Chinese, pages 52–56)“One of Geometry’s Nicest Applications”: Crafting the Georg-Tiefer Stollen (1771–1799)
In the second half of the eighteenth century, mine surveying in German ore mines was gaining steam. Methods were improving, due to both the found
"Chinesisch ist eigentlich sehr einfach"
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MoreA Scholarly Way of Life in the Making, 1470–1630
How do ways of life emerge, and how are they transformed? Ways of life are essential to any historical description of a given society, yet we have har
Archival Impulses in German Radio: Collecting, Ordering and Reusing Sound (1930–1960)
In 1930, journalist Hans Tasiemka reported the pioneering introduction of sound recording and archiving at the Berlin Funk-Stunde station, on the init
Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
Worlds of Nuclear Age Knowledge and Expertise
This project followed concepts, practices, and experts as they traveled across the boundaries drawn by national security and secrecy in the Cold War.
Scientific Agriculture and Knowledge Exchange In the Global South: Mexican Wheat Seeds in India, 1961–1991
This research project examined how scientific ideas about new wheat strains were interpreted, reshaped, and consumed by locals in two different countr