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Kooperations-Veranstaltung | Dec 1, 2020
Die chinesische Vergangenheit (und Zukunft?) der Naturwissenschaften
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Institute's Colloquium: Environments and Ecologies of Transmission
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MoreThe Mask—Arrayed: An Interdisciplinary Project on the Materiality of a Covid-19 Icon
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“The Mask—Arrayed” explores the material, technological, and cultural aspects of the most iconic artifact of the Covid-19 crisis: the face mask. In this interdisciplinary essay project, an international group of scholars and artists unmasks the complexity of this seemingly simple object and unveils its many layers and different usages in both material and non-material terms.
Carolin Roeder
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The Mask—Arrayed: Maskenschau. Ein interdisziplinäres Projekt zur Materialität einer Covid-19-Ikone
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In „The Mask—Arrayed“ werden die materiellen, technischen und kulturellen Aspekte des ikonischsten Artefakts der Covid-19-Krise untersucht: der Gesichtsmaske. In diesem interdisziplinären Projekt demaskiert eine internationale Gruppe aus Forschenden und Kunstschaffenden die Komplexität dieses scheinbar einfachen Objekts und enthüllt in einer Reihe von Essays die vielen Schichten und unterschiedlichen Verwendungen der Maske sowohl im materieller als auch in immaterieller Hinsicht.
Carolin Roeder
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Ethnographic and Naturalist Knowledge and the “Scientific” Racialization of Indian Food and Agriculture, 16th–17th C.
This project utilizes European botanical and medical treatises, ethnographic literature including travelogues, and correspondences about Indian food a
Mapping Epidemics: Public Health, and Scientific Practice in North African Port Cities, 1750–1950
Plague, cholera, and fevers, in their ability to wreak havoc on society, have disrupted the commercial and geopolitical fabric in port cities, yet the
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Anthropogenic Markers: Historical and Material Contexts of a Twentieth-Century Transition in Earthly Matters
From 2020 to 2022, the Anthropocene Working Group (AWG) is coordinating a series of geological investigations to identify key anthropogenic signatures
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A World of the Senses: Jesuit Aristotelianism in Europe and China
The Coimbra Commentaries, published between 1592 and 1606, were intended to serve as the teaching manuals for the philosophy course structured around
Another Green Revolution? Extracting "Lessons" from History
After 1945, Western foundations and governments devoted considerable resources to promoting agricultural development in Latin America and Asia through