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.
Dept. III
Artifacts, Action, Knowledge
Director
Director (Since Apr 2013)
Histories of Planning
Research Support
Research Officer (Feb 2022 - Dec 2027)
Research Officer / Wissenschaftliche Referentin in Abt. III
Publications Manager
Publications Manager
Departmental Assistant
Departmental Assistant
Leadership Group
Research Scholar (Sep 2022–Aug 2025)
Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
Research Scholar (2018–2024)
Reaping the Benefits of Water - The Political Epistemologies of Water in Imperial China.
Researchers
Postdoctoral Fellow (Mar 2025 - Aug 2025)
Darkening the Heavens: Premodern Cosmologies and Modern Questions
Senior Research Scholar (Since Jan 2014)
Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2022 - Aug 2025)
Postdoctoral Fellow Abt. III - working group "Proteins and Fibers": "Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber"
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Feb 2023 - Dec 2028)
The Origin Story at the End of the Universe: On the Problems of Modern Physical Cosmology
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Jan 2024 - Apr 2025)
Field Allocation Maps in the Popular Ming Dynasty Encyclopedia and their Afterlife
Visiting Predoctoral Fellow (Dec 2024 - May 2025)
Predoctoral Scholar (May 2021 - Apr 2025)
Premodern Agricultural Knowledge in New Persian
Postdoctoral Scholar (Nov 2024 - Sep 2027)
Postdoctoral Scholar (Sep 2024 - Aug 2027)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Jun 2020 - Feb 2026)
Epistemologies of craft: The role of material innovation in making colour expertise
Research Scholar (Sep 2022 - Aug 2025)
Representations of Celestial Maps in the Hellenistic World
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Mar 2025 - Mar 2026)
New Perspectives on the Symbolism of the Eclipse Dragon (jawzahr) in the Islamic Literature
Senior Research Scholar (Since Sep 2017)
Postdoctoral Scholar (Jul 2024 - Jun 2027)
Postdoctoral Scholar (Jan 2025 - Sep 2027)
Senior Research Fellow (May 2022 - Dec 2025)
Transzendente Erfahrungen - Phänomene, Ideen und Urteile
Rathenau Senior Fellow (Feb 2019 - Dec 2025)
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
Postdoctoral Fellow (May 2025 - Jul 2025)
Cosmology at Work: Illustrations of the Seasons in Late Imperial China
Predoctoral Scholar (Jan 2023 - Dec 2025)
The Strange as Knowledge: Collections of the Anomalous and Marvellous within Late-Imperial Leishu (1600-1900)
Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow (Sep 2024 - Jun 2025)
Visiting Senior Research Fellow (Sep 2024 - Dec 2026)
The Prints and Printing Culture of the Old Uyghurs on the Northern Silk Road