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Fusion of two images: "Dyers scraping stenciled fabrics," figure 235, Hommel & Mercer, China at Work 1937, and "Indian indigo-dye worker," photo A. Mamidipudi, 2017.
Dept. III
Artifacts, Action, Knowledge
Director Dagmar Schäfer
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Director
Services & Administration
Researchers 2019-20
Artist in Residence (1 Sep 2019-31 Oct 2019)
Out of Place out of Time: Film Project
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2017-31 Jul 2020)
PhD
Mapping the Arab City: Alexandria, Cairo and Tunis in the Early Modern Period
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2020-30 Sep 2021)
(1) Working Group Visualization of the Heavens and Their Material Cultures, die mit weitverzweigter internationaler Kooperation eine Datenbank zu visuellen Darstellungen himmlischer und atmosphärischer Erscheinungen in Kulturen Eurasiens und Nordafrikas vom 4. Jahrtausend v.u.Z. bis 1700 u.Z. erarbeitet und Forschungsprojekte mit entsprechenden Publikationen durchführt (2) DFG Projekt zu Atlanten und Karten von 'Ali und Muhammad al-Sharafi und al-Hajj Abu l-Hasan (16.Jahrhundert).
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2019-31 Dec 2019)
Professor of Chinese History and Republic of China Chair, University of British Columbia
A Price History of Ming China
Visiting Student (16 Sep 2019-13 Dec 2019)
Do the Machines Speak? Looking for a New Way of Understanding Animals in Historical Discourse
Visiting Scholar (15 Jul 2019-14 Jul 2020)
PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Chinese Literature, National Tsing Hua University
A Comparative Study on the Knowledge Structures of Local Gazetteers
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Mediterranean Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?
Visiting Scholar (1 Jun 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, The Centre for Studies on China, Korea and Japan, CNRS-EHESS, Paris, France
Chinese Maps Collected by the MPIWG: Geo-Referencing and New Acquisitions
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Research Associate at Humboldt University, Matters of Activity: Image Space Material
Wild Silk of West Africa: Towards an Indigenous Science of Materials
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)
PhD Candidate, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
Meat, Cattle, and a Capital City: Slaughterhouses, Animals, and Meat Production in Rio de Janeiro during the Last Years of the Brazilian Empire
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)
Doctoral Student, Sydney University
Nature and Nation: Documentation and the Practice of "Natural History" at the Australian Museum, 1840–1890
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2018-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Associate Professor, Aalto University
The Uses and Abuses of Things: Reconceptualizing Technology-in-Use within the History of Technology
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-19 Aug 2021)
PhD
"Understanding the Anthropocene": The Level of the Sea
Visiting Scholar (30 Mar 2020-4 Dec 2020)
Frailties of the Green Revolution: On Transferring Agricultural Technology from Temperate to Tropical Zones
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Jun 2020-31 Aug 2021)
“The Rhythms of War and Farming in Early Modern China and Korea.”
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2018-14 Sep 2020)
PhD
Changes, Continuities, and Innovations in Music Theory and Musical Thought in Early Medieval China, 316-581 CE
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Biology for the Nation: The International Biological Program in South Korea and Taiwan during the Cold War Era, 1961-1975
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Engineering Metropolis: Contagion, Capital, and the Making of British Colonial Cairo, 1882-1922
Visiting Scholar (29 Nov 2019-28 Dec 2019)
Phd, Professor at the Department of Cultural Studies and Languages Universtiy of Stavanger, Norway
Touched Nature: A History of the Norwegian Leisure Cabin, 1850-2020
Visiting Scholar (23 Sep 2019-31 Oct 2019)
Dr., MARKK - Museum am Rothenbaum, Hamburg
Coloured Maps from East Asia from the Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg: A Study of a Chinese Scroll Map entitled Tianxia yutu
IT Developer (1 Oct 2018-30 Sep 2020)
Dr.
Sources for the Study of Chinese History
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Oct 2019-30 Nov 2019)
Chinese Local Geography before Local Gazetteers
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Apr 2019-31 May 2020)
PhD, University of Maastricht
A Song for a Blue God: Essence, Embodiment, and Equity in Colour.
Visiting Scholar (1 Sep 2019-31 May 2020)
PhD, Associate Professor, Program in Science, Technology, and Society MIT, USA
African Chemistry: Science with an African Totem
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2017-31 Jul 2017)
PhD, Associate Professor of History, Arizona State University
Infrastructures of Planning in Japanese Overseas Development
Visiting Scholar (1 Oct 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Research Professor of History and Philosophy of Science
The Global History of the Swing
Senior Research Scholar (1 Sep 2015-28 Feb 2023)
PhD
Barren Structures: The Problem of Sterility in the Age of Plenty
Predoctoral Fellow (15 Sep 2017-14 Nov 2020)
MA, Doctoral Student, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin
Insects as Knowledge Goods and Global Commodities: Hans Sauter's Formosa Collections
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2020-31 Jul 2020)
Investigating the Creation of an Interdisciplinary Research Field Through Bibliographic Data The Case of Agricultural Meteorology in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Visiting Scholar (1 Jan 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Research Fellow, Argentine National Council of Science (CONICET)
The Elk, the Tapir, their Hooves, and the Falling Sickness: A Story of Substitution, Trade, and Animal Medical Substances
Visiting Scholar (4 Oct 2019-29 Nov 2019)
PhD
Empires of Knowledge: Colonial Patent Systems in the Atlantic World during the Industrial Age
Visiting Scholar (24 Aug 2020-30 Jun 2021)
Communication in Early Modern Eurasia: Translation, Memory, and Power
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
A Transnational History of Mountaineering
Artist in Residence (1 Sep 2019-30 Jun 2020)
Informing Ethical Engineering—Mobilizing Histories of Science toward Ethical Material Choices
Visiting Scholar (6 Feb 2020-6 Mar 2020)
German Expatriate Practitioners of Natural History
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2020-30 Jun 2020)
Dr. Julia Sanchez-Dorado
Judgments of Similarity and Idealizations in Geodetical Practices
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (23 Mar 2020-31 Jul 2020)
The Transformation of Human-Camel Relations in Somaliland
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Jan 2020)
PhD Candidate, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta
A History of Electrification in India: 1890s–1980s
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2017-31 Dec 2019)
PhD
Public Health, Modern Agriculture, and Wars Against Insect Enemies: Pest Control and the Making of Applied Entomology in Modern China, 1915-1960
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2019-31 Aug 2020)
PhD
Early Histories of Plants from the Americas in the Early Modern Ottoman World
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (15 Nov 2018-15 May 2020)
PhD
Different Culture, Different Climate? Seeking Cultural Cifferences in the Climate Knowledge and Ideas
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Sep 2018-31 Aug 2021)
Engendering Wildlife and Whiteness: Elephants, Ivory, and Zoos (1870s–1940s)
Postdoctoral Fellow (9 Sep 2019-8 Sep 2020)
PhD
DFG-Project: Mediterranean and Nautical Cartography in Arabic and Ottoman Turkish: Islands or Gateways of Knowledge in the Sea of Transcultural and Translinguistic Translation Processes?
Visiting Scholar (14 Jun 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, University Professorial Fellow, Charles Darwin University
Theory as "A Plan"—Asking about the Effects of Zeno’s Dichotomy Paradox in Analytic Work
Postdoctoral Fellow (1 Nov 2018-31 Aug 2020)
PhD candidate, Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context", Heidelberg University
Reaping the Benefits of Water—The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China
Predoctoral Fellow (1 Mar 2020-31 Aug 2021)
Computer-aided Approaches to Study of the Japanese Buddhist World Maps of the 14th to 19th Century
Visiting Scholar (21 Mar 2019-31 Dec 2019)
PhD, Professor, Department of History, Research Institute for Pre-modern Chinese History Zhejiang University, Hangzhou
The Chang of Chinese Traditional General Maps: A Study on Two General Maps of the Late Qing Empire
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (1 Aug 2019-30 Apr 2020)
MA, Doctoral Student, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Patronage, Politics and Astral Sciences in the Mongol Empire (1206-1368)
Research Scholar (15 Mar 2018-12 Apr 2020)
PhD
Empire, Nature and Pharmacology in the Ottoman World, 1400-1800