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Susan Zieger
Susan Zieger is Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Riverside. She ...
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True Heat
Artist filmmaker Lucy Beech joins the working group “Out of Place, Out of Time” as an artist fellow (2020–22). During this time MPIWG is supporting he
Breeding Against Extinction: Knowledges and Practices of Species Conservation in Interwar Poland
Despite numerous episodes of captive reproduction for display and acclimatization purposes, systematic breeding for species conservation became the ce
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
This project explores the history of keeping elephants in captivity in Eastern Europe with a focus on how the trajectories of colonial trades in zoo s
Annette Vogt talks to Deutschlandfunk about the forgotten pioneer of brain research Cécile Vogt
Go to Audio (German)Annette Vogt spricht mit Deutschlandfunk über die vergessene Pionierin der Hirnforschung Cécile Vogt
Zum AudiobeitragGina Surita
Gina Surita is a PhD candidate in the Program in History of Science at Princeton University. Her...
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Keith Knapp
Keith Knapp received his PhD in East Asian history from the University of California, Berkeley, ...
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The Experience of Uncertainty: Generation in European Medicine, 1500–1650
How does human life begin? How do we know when it has started? Such questions are still debated today, but they were also hotly contested in the early
A 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