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Postdoctoral Fellow Edna Bonhomme Selected for VBKÖ Art Program
Postdoctoral Fellow Edna Bonhomme Selected for Austrian Association of Women Artists (VBKÖ) Program
Oct 31, 2018 Go to VBKÖ WebsiteExotic Animals and Domestic Life during America's Long Sexual Revolution
This project investigates the transnational and colonial entanglements that made the science of behavioral endocrinology possible. From the 1920s to t
Doctors of "L’Esprit nouveau": Human Energetics and the Formation of the French Avant-garde
My PhD research considers the intersection of art and architectural practice within the milieu of the French periodical L’Esprit nouveau (19
Seminar Series "The Uses of Imagination: Between Science and Art" | May 23, 2019 | 15:00 to 17:00
The Science of Character: Realism and Feminism in Fin-de-Siècle England
Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
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Purebred: Making Meat and Eugenics in the Modern United States
Contemporary industrial meat agriculture requires the intensive governance of animal reproduction through technologies such as artificial insemination
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Astrology and Archives
The history of astrology has been written about in terms of scientific, theological and occult ideas, and practices including observations and computa
Wu Yun's 吳筠 "Rhapsody on the Darkling Gibbon" and its Daoist Contexts
A Chinese “rhapsody” 賦 is a long poetic form meant to “set forth / present” 賦 all aspects of a subject. The Daoist priest Wu Yün’s 吳筠 (d. 778)’s rhaps
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
No 65
Es begann alles mit einem Mittagessen und drei Kolleginnen, die sich über historische Notizbücher unterhielten. Als Technologien der Wissensgenerierung, so stellten sie fest, waren Notizbücher gut erforscht. Wie aber verhielt es sich mit der Geschlechtsspezifik des Arbeitens mit Papier? Wessen Hände beschrifteten, falteten, hefteten, schleppten und fertigten den Werkstoff in Werkstätten, Haushalten und Laboratorien? Und wie stand die Materialität des Papiers im Zusammenhang mit Geschlechteridentitäten und geschlechtlichen Körpern?
Working with Paper: Gendered Practices in the History of Knowledge
No 65
It all began with lunch and three colleagues talking about notebooks. As paper technologies, they noted, notebooks had certainly been recognized by historians as vital instruments for knowledge making. But what about gender and paper practices, and the gendering of “paper work?” From the household to the laboratory, whose hands inscribed, carried, folded, twisted, pinned, and shuffled these materials? And how did the materiality of paper intersect with gender identities and gendered bodies?
The Global History of the Swing
This project traces the history of an object that has accompanied us since immemorial times, from pre-imperial China and from the Greek legends of Eri
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