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Methods Intensive Workshop | Oct 25-Oct 26, 2018
Oral History and the History of Scientific Practice: A Difficult Dialogue?
MoreKnowing the Unobservable: Analogies and Analogical Reasoning in Premodern Islamic Theology
No 73
Premodern Islamic theologians frequently employed analogies and analogical reasoning in their works—making comparisons between one thing and another for the purpose of explanation, clarification, or analysis.
Hannah Erlwein
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Das Unbeobachtbare kennen: Analogien und Analogieschluss in der islamischen Theologie der Vormoderne
No 73
Islamische Theologen der Vormoderne verwendeten in ihren Werken häufig Analogien und Analogieschlüsse: zum Zwecke der Erklärung, Klarstellung oder Analyse stellten sie Vergleiche zwischen einer Sache und einer anderen an.
Hannah Erlwein
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Jeffrey Kotyk
Jeffrey Kotyk (PhD, Leiden University, 2017) is a Robert H.N. Ho Family Foundation Postdoctoral ...
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Baselining Pollution: Producing “Natural Soil” for Environmental Regulation in Chile
The project "Baselining Pollution: Producing 'Natural Soil' for Environmental Regulation in Chile" examines the practical construction and usage of ba
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Mixing historiographical and ethnographic approaches, and taking inspiration from science and technology studies, this project explores how there is n
The Mask—Arrayed: An Interdisciplinary Project on the Materiality of a Covid-19 Icon
No 70
“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
No 70
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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New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Objectivity
MoreNew Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Objectivity
MoreSanctorius Sanctorius: The Beginning of Self-Quantification
No 56
In her project Predoctoral Fellow Teresa Hollerbach considers the work of the physician Sanctorius Sanctorius (1561–1636), who developed instruments to measure and quantify physiological change. The project examines Sanctorius’ work as part of the emergence and establishment of quantification methods in the iatromechanical sciences.
Teresa Hollerbach
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