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The Science of Children
What are the parallels between conceptual development in children and knowledge formation in the sciences? How have ideas of such paral
Human/Animal Division in Nineteenth-Century Russian Medical and Ethnographic Accounts
Based upon works of medical practitioners and ethnographers, the project explores the environmental imagery of animal waste and the corresponding huma
Modeled Modernity: A Critical History of Computing in the People's Republic of China
At the MPIWG, Bo An is working on his dissertation, an interdisciplinary history of computation and modeling in the People's Republic of China ov
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A central working hypothesis—widely held but rarely investigated—is that modern computing has significantly changed Chinese governance, society, and c
Terence Kleven
Terry Kleven is a Visiting Scholar from Central College, Iowa, USA, where he teaches in the Depa...
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Bo An
Bo An is a PhD Candidate in East Asian and Media Studies at Yale University. His research intere...
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Thinking in Many Tongues
This working group and reading seminar, running over two years in 2016–17, brought together around a dozen historians and philologists with diverse ki
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Reading Seminar, 5 October 2016 Etymology , Participants, Wolfgang Behr
The Evolution of Culture: Laboratories and Legislatures in Illiberal Hungary
In the late twentieth century, culture was adopted as an epistemic object in the life, mind, and behavioral sciences where researchers sought quantita
Re-Thinking East Asian Medicines
This project finds new ways of thinking historically about East Asian medicines as living traditions to address a number of enduring questio
“Heal Thyself": Citizens and the Construction of Knowledges of Care in Contemporary Iran
My dissertation focuses on three interwoven areas linked to knowledges of care in contemporary Iran: the notion of the healthy body and mind as identi
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Philosophy and Medicine in Late Antique Alexandria
The key figure in the transmission of Greek philosophical and medical knowledge to the Syriac and hence to the Arabic-speaking world in the fifth–seve