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Workshop | Jun 23-Jun 24, 2017 | 09:30 to 15:30
Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice
MoreDream Watchers. A History of Modern Dream Research
This project analyzed the rise of the scientific study of dreams in the nineteenth and twentieth century. Within a new scientific culture of objectivi
Publications, Mayer, A. (2013). Sites of the Unconscious. Hypnosis and the Emergence of the Psychoanalytic Setting. Chicago: University of Chicago Press., Funding Institutions, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung
The Virtual Laboratory: Tools for Research on the History of Experimentalization
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Das virtuelle Labor ist eine Internetplattform, die Quellen der Lebenswissenschaften und ihrer materiellen Kultur zugänglich macht.
The Virtual Laboratory: Tools for Research on the History of Experimentalization
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The Virtual Laboratory is an Internet platform where sources on the history of the life sciences and their material culture are presented and annotated.
Antoine Lafreri's Atlases: Collecting, Conserving, and Representing Geographical Knowledge
In the history of cartography, the object “atlas” has always encountered difficulty in being accepted as a genuine scientific form. Indeed, until rece
The Description of the Loca Sancta in Medieval Travel Accounts
This project explored descriptions of the lova sancta in medieval travel accounts. Since the early beginnings of Christianity, Palestine and the surro
Space, Performance, and the Body in German Architecture, 1870–1914
This project studied a moment of transition in German architectural discourse in the late nineteenth century: an architectural theory that had convent
Funding Institutions, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art
Observing and Making the Effects of Pollution Explicit
Unless exceptional events cause effects directly visible to the naked eye, air, and water pollution remain mostly imperceptible. The frequent absence
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Gramaglia, C. 2005. "River Sentinels: Finding a Mouth for the Lot River." In B. Latour & P. Weibel (eds), Making Things Public. Atm
Observer and Observed in Soviet State Design Institutes 1960s–90s
This project studied the influences and importance of artists' observational techniques on other sciences in one of the major research institutes in t
Publications, [Leave out the word art - what then? The Russian avant-garde sees society as an entire design and man as an experiment] "Tag bort ordet konst -- vad händer då? Dagens Nyheter Kultur Essay, June 18, 2004 p. 6.
Perceptual Illusions and their Role in Epistemology
It is a continuous task for the empirical sciences to distinguish reliable from unreliable observation. A concept that plays an important role here is
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Sturm, T. & Ash, M. G. (2005): „The Roles of Instruments in Psychological Research.“ History of Psychology 8, 3-35 (Thematic Issue