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Bethany Walker
Bethany Walker (PhD 1998, University of Toronto) is professor of Islamic Archaeology at the Univ...
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Petro-Melancholy. The Petroleum Age as Mirrored in Art (in German)
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Kaveh Yazdani was born in Tehran and raised in Paris and Berlin. He received his PhD degree from...
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The Evolution of Scientific Visual Language in Early Modern Science: A Machine-Learning Based Analysis
This research wishes to define and describe the evolution of visual language in early modern astronomy. This project is a part of the research group “
Congenital Anomalies in Medieval French Romance and Medicine
The appearance of unusual or non-normative physical, intellectual, and developmental traits in newborn infants perplexed premodern medical and literar
Of the Astral Divinities and Heavens in South, Central, and East Asia
This project investigates the material culture and visual imagery representing the astral divinities and heavenly knowledge as they existed in South A
Storying Turtle Shell Masks and the Lives of Spirits
This project is sited with Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down and focuses on two turtle shell masks taken from the eastern Torres Strait in the ninet
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Forgotten People in the Mongol Empire and the Ming Dynasty
In my book Khubilai Khan, published in 1988, I wrote that “Khubilai eliminated a discriminatory practice and altered the biases against occupational g
Transience in Death and Burial of Six Dynasties China
Creating, adorning, and furnishing tombs was never only used as a means of expressing filial piety and handling grief, but also as a way of coping wit