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Lotte Schüssler
Lotte Schüßler is a media and theatre scholar who obtained her PhD in media s...
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Transience: Politics and Practices of Time in the Chinese Period of Division (4th–7th centuries)
This working group explores how Chinese elites in the Period of Division coped with the ephemerality that marked their time. We ask how changes in soc
The Human Scaffold: How Not to Design Your Way out of a Climate Crisis
Humanity has precipitated a planetary crisis of resource consumption—a crisis of stuff. So ingrained is our stuff-centric view, we can barely imagine
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Artifact and Tonality: Musical Instrument Makers as Invisible Technicians in Twentieth-Century South India
In India, musical instrument making has so far not been explored from the perspective of history of science and technology. From the historical docume
Collecting Ears: Marin Mersenne and the Study of Music in Early Modern Europe
This project focuses on the changing role of experience, techniques of observation, and the use of material instruments in seventeenth-century acousti
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In my PhD project, I argue that a particular shift in musical and acoustical techniques of observations took place in the early modern perio
Sound, Time, and the Apocalypse in the Chinese Period of Division
In this project, I will be exploring the complex ways in which time came to be understood, interpreted, and debated in China during the period of late
Music and Transience in the Historiography of Six Dynasties China
Ephemerality and politics lie at the heart of this group project on early medieval China. We intend to analyze how elites coped with the destructive q
Between Worlds: Music, Sound, and Interspecies Communication
“The anthropological machine of humanism is an ironic apparatus that verifies the absence of a nature proper to Homo, holding him suspended between a
Changes and Continuities in Concepts of Sound in Early Medieval China, (4–6 Century CE.)
Between China’s third century BCE and third century CE, scholar-officials thought of sound as a cosmic phenomenon to be measured, calcu
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Colonial Ears: Noise, Acoustics, and Hearing Bodies in Colonial Taiwan
This project investigates the transfer of noise monitoring technologies from New York City to Taipei vis-à-vis Japanese colonial administrators in the