63 projects
Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)
Ongoing
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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.

AfghanistanAnthropologyCultural Heritage
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908
Ongoing
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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
Postkarten Russland
Finished
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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.

postcardsRussiahistory
Premiers théâtres romands
Ongoing
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Premiers théâtres romands

The project documents theatrical practices in the French-Swiss regions between the 15ᵗʰ and 16ᵗʰ c. It is a part of the SNSF project focused on versified public communication in French (15ᵗʰ-16ᵗʰ c.)

15th-century Literature in French16th-century Literature in FrenchCultural History of Switzerland
Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions
Finished
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Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions

Anschauungsbeispiel einer generischen Edition: Korrespondenz zwischen dem Philologen G. Paris (1839-1903) und einem seiner Schüler, dem Philosophen W. Lutosławski (1863-1954).

Digital Scholarly EditionFrench Philology
Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture
Ongoing
Open Access with Restrictions

Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture

The project addresses the visual culture of the city of Rome (Vth-XIth ct.) by means of an interdisciplinary approach (art history, architecture, archaeology archaeometry, liturgy, epigraphy).

paintingmosaicvisual culture
Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys
Finished
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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
Tall al-Hamidiya Online
Ongoing
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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.

MitanniAssyriapalaces
Textures of Sacred Scripture
Finished
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Textures of Sacred Scripture

Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300

Medieval book art780–1300Materiality