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MPIWG-Ausstellungen bei der Wissensstadt Berlin 2021: Ein Rückblick
MPIWG-Ausstellungen bei der Wissensstadt Berlin 2021: Ein Rückblick
Nov 12, 2021Anatomy of a Hybrid: The Entangled History of Biology and Silk in Modern Japan
This project examines how endeavors in Japan to produce and export mass quantities of raw silk generated new biological knowledge about the domesticat
Changxue Shu
Chang-Xue Shu joined the digital humanities program of Chinese Local Gazetteers in Department II...
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Understanding the Anthropocene: The Level of the Sea
The level of the sea is nowadays a trope of environmental discourse, used widely to symbolise current and future changes to the environment. These mod
Accounting for Uncertainty: Prediction and Planning in Asian History
Tackling ideas of uncertainty and not-knowing has produced a variety of ways of modeling and reasoning material and intellectual cultures in Asian cul
Workshops, Accounting for Uncertainty, Preprint No. 496, Accounting for Uncertainty, Contributors, Anna Andreeva, Universität Heidelberg
Testing Chemicals and Validating Tests: Regulatory Practices and Politics
From the 1960s to the 1980s, cancer was regarded by many scientists and government agencies as an environmental disease, one that could be controlled
Concepts as Technologies: On the Use of Concepts in Biomedical Practice
Concepts have often been described as or in analogy with technologies. Expressions such as technical term, term of art, conceptual tools, or, more rec
The City as Nature: An Intellectual History of the City in Middle-Period China, 800–1150
Imperial officials of the Song Empire (960–1279 CE) confronted a complex, monetized society. The colonization, between the ninth and eleventh centurie
Optical Cultures of Fibers and Viruses, 1916–1984
The visualization and imagination of biological structures at sub-microscopic scales is one of the defining features of modern biology. Our sense of t
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Timothy Brook
Timothy Brook is professor of Chinese history and Republic of China Chair at the University of B...
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