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Making Sense of the Environs: Exposure as Epistemic Action
In the wake of the nineteenth-century invention of photography, the historical semantics of "exposure" broadened to include exposing a sensitized surf
An Imagined Human Body: A Study of Chinese Medical Manuscripts
The focus of this project is on how medical knowledge was produced through practice. In particular, how medical imagination grew locally and changed t
Ayako Sakurai
Ayako Sakurai obtained a PhD in history of science at the University of Cambridge in 2007. Her d...
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The Mask—Arrayed
The Mask-Arrayed explores the material, technological, and cultural aspects of the most iconic artifact of the COVID-19 crisis—the face mask. His
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Popular Ming Field Allocation Maps: Between Origins and Afterlife
This research is concerned with field allocation (fenye 分野) maps found across the popular Ming encyclopedias, beginning from the early seventeenth cen
The “Cosmic Board” and the Visuality of Early and Medieval Chinese Cosmology
By focusing on reinterpreting the astronomical and divinatory device often known as the “cosmic board” or shi pan, this project aims to shed new light
The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
In the late twentieth century, culture was adopted as an epistemic object in the life, mind, and behavioral sciences where researchers sought quantita
Society, Rituals, and Ecology: An Environmental Approach to Water Laws in Classical Islamic Legal Traditions
This project explores the intricate relationship between religious regulations, societal practices, and environmental considerations in the realm of c
A History of "Making Things" in West Africa, 1920–1980: Creating, Meaning Making, and Experience
This project studies artisans and craftspeople in Accra and Lagos by looking at productive processes with a focus on meaning, making, and creating. Th
Epistemic Visuality of Early Modern Astral Culture and Knowledge in Europe
This project researches and digitally collects early modern images of astral culture and knowledge with a geographical focus on the Holy Roman Empire