34 projects
Jacob Bernoulli's Scientific Notebook (Meditationes)
Finished
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Jacob Bernoulli's Scientific Notebook (Meditationes)

First complete digital edition of Jacob Bernoulli's 367-page scientific notebook (begun ca. 1676), a key source for the history of mathematics around 1700.

BernoulliMeditationesMathematics
Life Histories of Theban Tombs
Ongoing
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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
Locus Ludi database: The Kottabos in the Greek World
Finished
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Locus Ludi database: The Kottabos in the Greek World

This database aims to provide a benchmark by compilating all representations of kottabos in the Greek world, including descriptions, images and links to other reference databases.

DionysosGameGreek vases
L’epistolario di Ugo Foscolo: catalogo
Ongoing
Open Access with Restrictions

L’epistolario di Ugo Foscolo: catalogo

The catalogue of the Foscolo epistolary contains the data, metadata and images relating to the letters, documents, witnesses, holding institutions and editions of the letters.

LettersUgo Foscolo
Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns
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Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns

The multifaceted martial culture of the late Medieval European town is sketched by this research project describing the ownership, handling, symbolism, use, and materiality of medieval weapons, and their cultural impact on urban society.

Martial CultureMedieval HistoryUrban History
Musiklexikon der Schweiz
Ongoing
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Musiklexikon der Schweiz

Das MLS stellt fundierte Information über die AkteurInnen, Institutionen, Orte, Objekte und Phänomene zur Verfügung, die für die Musikgeschichte Schweiz über alle Sparten und Stile relevant sind.

GeschichteMusikMusikwissenschaft
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
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania
Finished
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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.

EthnologyParticipationSocial health protection
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