5 projects
Life Histories of Theban Tombs
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Life Histories of Theban Tombs

LHTT focuses on a cluster of tombs in the Theban Necropolis (Egypt). It investigates the evolution of the hillside and explores the history of the tombs from early 2nd mill. BCE to 20th c. CE.

ArchaeobotanyArchaeologyArchaeozoology
Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s
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Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s

The SNSF PRIMA project “Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s” studies the uses of TV in industrial, medical, educational and military contexts.

Closed-Circuit TelevisionCultural TechniquesMedia History
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908
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Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908

How do photography and statecraft intersect in the making and unmaking of citizens? How and why did photography become a new media for unmaking subjects in late 19th c Ottoman empire?

Ottoman empirecitizenshipemigration
Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys
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Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys

Were early Christian churches aligned with the sun or the moon? A study across Switzerland and Northern Italy explores the links between the sky and sacred architecture.

Early Christianitysacred Christian buildingsSwitzerland
Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg
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Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg

Folk music enthusiasts gathered between 1972 and 1980 at the picturesque Lenzburg Castle. Discover the audio heritage of the legendary Lenzburg Folk Festival

FolkloreLenzburgSchweizerisches Volksliedarchiv