Doctors at Leiden University hospital reenact Frank Lillie’s early placental dyeing method used as a diagnostic tool for assessing placental anastomosis. Used to study a biological phenomenon in genetically female cows born from a dizygotic twin pregnancy, called freemartinism, the dyeing technique maps the exchange of blood and hormones across the placental connection that renders the female twin intersex and unable to conceive. Film still from Flush (2023). © Lucy Beech, courtesy of the artist.
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The Department also hosts externally funded working groups whose research complements existing interests and activities at the Institute. Below is a list of all externally funded working groups at the Department, past and present.
Daily Practices of Cosmological Knowledge in Late Imperial China (1368–1911)
Mengmeng Sun
Epistemologies of Craft: The Role of Material Innovation in Making Color Expertise
Annapurna Mamidipudi
