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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Artifacts, Action, Knowledge
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Histories of Planning
Research Support
Research Officer
Research Officer / Wissenschaftliche Referentin in Abt. III
Publications Manager
Publications Manager
Departmental Assistant
Departmental Assistant
Leadership Group
Researchers
Postdoctoral Scholar
Turtles of Time: Extinction, Cosmology, and the Epistemic Afterlives of Giant Tortoises in the Southwest Indian Ocean
Postdoctoral Scholar
Astral Imagery in the Islamicate World from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern Period (12th- 18th Century)
Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2025 - Feb 2026)
Horseshoes in Science: The Role of Equine Veterinary Medicine in the Configuration of Scientific and Military Thought in the Andes (19th Century)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2025 - Dec 2027)
Toxic Legacies: The Material History and Heritage of Mining in Central Europe
Senior Research Scholar
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2023 - Dec 2028)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Project Coordinator
Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian
Predoctoral Fellow (Sep 2025 - Feb 2026)
Inventing Tradition: The Emergence of National Fengshui Masters and the Dynamic Interplay of Geomantic Expertise Between State and Local Society in Ming-Qing China (14-18th Century)
Senior Research Fellow (Oct 2025 - May 2026)
The Inscriptions of the Antikythera Mechanism
Postdoctoral Scholar
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2025 - Dec 2025)
Vernacular Medicine and Modes of Knowing in China: Historical and Global Contexts
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2025 - Aug 2027)
Minerals for Glass, Ceramics and Porcelain
Research Scholar
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Nov 2025 - Apr 2026)
Knowledge Integration of the Classic of Mountains: Reconstructing Ancient Geographical and Ecological Knowledge Heritage with Artificial Intelligence
Postdoctoral Scholar
Cures and Curiosities: Visualizing the Stone Disease
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jun 2020 - Feb 2026)
Epistemologies of craft: The role of material innovation in making colour expertise
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mar 2025 - Mar 2026)
New Perspectives on the Symbolism of the Eclipse Dragon (jawzahr) in the Islamic Literature
Senior Research Scholar
Postdoctoral Fellow (Oct 2025 - Sep 2026)
Exploring Object-Oriented Astronomical Multiplicities of the Japanese Archipelago
Postdoctoral Scholar
Postdoctoral Scholar
Senior Research Fellow (Jul 2025 - Jan 2026)
Purebred: Making Meat and Eugenics in the Modern United States
Senior Research Fellow (May 2022 - Dec 2025)
Transzendente Erfahrungen - Phänomene, Ideen und Urteile
Rathenau Senior Fellow
History of Mathematics and Physics (Nineteenth and Twentieth Century), History of Technology
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Mar 2025 - Dec 2027)
Industryscapes: Socio-Natural Sites of Extraction, Production, and Knowledge Making
Research Scholar
Private Menageries and the Limits of the Empire: The Case of Pilawin Park (1901–1918)
Predoctoral Scholar
The Strange as Knowledge: Collections of the Anomalous and Marvellous within Late-Imperial Leishu (1600-1900)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024 - Dec 2026)
The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road
Postdoctoral Fellow (Aug 2025 - Jul 2026)
Chinese Star Maps
Postdoctoral Scholar
The Making of Visual Knowledge: Illustrations and Painting Manuals (huapu men) in Ming and Qing Household Encyclopedias