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Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania
This project calls for a broad view of social health protection, comprising health care funding and people’s ubiquitous but less visible strife for participation in self-organized groups and networks.
Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)
With its approximately 500,000 photo objects from across the world, the photo archive of the CAS fosters new approaches to the study and consumption of photographs.
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?
Postkarten Russland
The project makes an extensive collection of Russian postcards public which is held by the Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Basel.
Street art in Belfast and Bogota: Murals, graffiti and posters
PhD project about the interactions between visual and political representations of women in contexts of peace processes, focussing on murals in the cities of Belfast and Bogotá
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.
Tall al-Hamidiya Online
The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.
Textures of Sacred Scripture
Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300
The Art of Reason in the Middle Ages. Visualizing reason and rational thought (11th-15th centuries)
The Art of Reason explores how medieval visual culture shaped and represented ideas of reason, revealing images as active forces in medieval intellectual history.