Ohad Parnes
Research Scholar (Since 2014)
PhD, Honorary Associate Professor
Room 252
Ohad Parnes studied Biology and History of Science at the Tel-Aviv University, obtaining his PhD in 2001 with a dissertation on nineteenth century physiology and medicine. He worked at the Open University in Israel, at the Central European University in Budapest, at the University of Berne and has been a Research Fellow at the Center of Cultural and Literary Research (ZfL) in Berlin and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine, University College in London. His main interests are the history of the life sciences and modern medicine, focusing on evolutionary theory and epigenetics as well as the history of immunology and autoimmunity and chronic disease in the twentieth century. Ohad's current research project deals with his doctoral supervisor Yehuda Elkana's estate and the digitalization of Theodor Schwann's estate.
Projects
Theories of Knowledge in the Twentieth Century: the “Split of Scientific Rationality”
Selected Publications
Renn, Jürgen, Matteo Valleriani, and Ohad Parnes, eds. (2019). “Leonardo’s Intellectual Cosmos.” Spark: Catalysts for Insight, no. 4: 26–33.
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Parnes, Ohad (2002). “[Entries] ‘Schleiden, Matthias Jacob’; ‘Schwann, Theodor Ambrose Hubert’; ‘Richet, Charles’’.’” In Encyclopedia of life sciences. London: Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1038/npg.els.0002474.
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Parnes, Ohad (2001). “Review of: Meinel, Christoph: Instrument - Experiment : historische Studien. Berlin [u.a.]: GNT-Verlag 2000.” The British Journal for the History of Science 34 (122,3): 347–349.
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Parnes, Ohad (2001). “Chipping away at feudal vestiges in Academe.” Science 291 (5501): 23–24.
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Past Events
Institute's Colloquium
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Artful Nature in Early Modern Times. A Case Study in the Field of Widespread Topos
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Gender and Technology in Twentieth-Century China: Textile Production between Household and Factory
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The Unbearable Lightness of History. Comparing German and Vietnamese Refugees in East and West Germany
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How Did East Asians Become Yellow?
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Subterranean Economies. Material and Epistemic Culture of the Mines in Early Modern Germany (1490-1630)
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Drawing Gesture: Transmission of Bodily Technique in Manuscript and Print, Late 15th–Early 16th Century
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Technè as a Mindset: Artists' Primers in Early Modern Germany
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Creating a Knowledge Society in a Globalizing World, 1450–1800
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Conservation and Contingency: On Realms of Theory and Cultures of Practice
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Cabinetizing Art, Knowledge, and the Exotic in the Early Modern Low Countries
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How Desks Declaim and Porcelain Preaches: On the Transmission of Knowledge and the Material Arts in Early Modern Europe
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