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Experts of Memory: Chanting as a Method and Verification of Learning in Tang Dynasty China
My project focuses on chanting texts for monastic ordination examinations as a method to plan, prove, and evaluate Buddhist knowledge. During the Tang
Ancients and Moderns: A Cultural History of Modern Science in India (1600–2000)
India’s encounter with modern science began in 1615 when an envoy of the East India Company presented a telescope to the Mughal emperor, Jahangir. The
Disciplining the Sense of Hearing: Auditory Practices in Mid Sixteenth-Century Geneva
This PhD project investigates new modes of listening ("attentive listening"), speaking ("plain" and "sincere speech") and remembering ("word memory")
Publications, Kvíčalová, A. (2014). Sound Signatures 2014: From Hearing Tubes to Computer Hacking. Sensory Studies [Online]., Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
Jürgen Renn und Jochen Büttner mit Beitrag in „Das Wissen der Antike“, einer neuen Spezialausgabe von Spektrum.
Jürgen Renn und Jochen Büttner mit Beitrag in „Das Wissen der Antike“, einer neuen Spezialausgabe von Spektrum
Dec 19, 2017 Spektrum der WissenschaftJürgen Renn and Jochen Büttner in Spektrum Special Issue, “Das Wissen der Antike.”
Jürgen Renn and Jochen Büttner contribute to “Das Wissen der Antike,” the most recent Spektrum special issue
Dec 19, 2017 Spektrum der WissenschaftMax-Planck-Gesellschaft präsentiert die Convivencia-Projekte des MPIWG und weiterer Max-Planck-Institute
Zum ArtikelArticle by Max Planck Society explores MPIWG Convivencia project with other Max Planck Institutes
Read ArticlePerforming Brains on Screen
Performing Brains on Screen, a book under contract with the series “Film Culture in Transition” of Amsterdam University Press, deals with film enactme
Uncertainty of the Mind: Institutionalizing and Individualizing Psychology, early 20th-Century China
In the late nineteenth century, when Western knowledge was systematically introduced to China, the majority of disciplines were already well-defined i
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When the Qing and Republican governments installed psychology as a pedagogical part of middle school curricula and adopted it as a legitimate field in
Reimagining Sinographic Archives
This project explores the processes through which specific modes of knowledge-making constituted “China” as an object of study for early modern Europe