Author: Leibniz-Fellows
In the last part of her contribution, Mina Khanlarzadeh turns to the vernacular infrastructures through which grief travels sideways into regional mother tongues and vernacular repertoires, where belonging is rebuilt under pressure.
Exploring Russia’s Response to Finland’s NATO Membership
Olena Podvorna analyses the Russian official strategic narrative towards Finland's NATO membership.
Beyond the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration: Navigating the Past at the Polar Museum
Mohammad Abu Al Hasan reflects on Antarctic legacies in the museum landscape.
The fascination of old collections: Histology in the Museum of Zoology, Cambridge
In her contribution, Lucie Helfmann takes us to the histological collection of the Museum of Zoology, University of Cambridge, and shows us what more can be found there, beyond dusty slides.
The Dawn of animal life: quantifying the origination animal mobility
In this contribution, Emily Mitchell considers how animals first started to move.
Between Sacredness and Bulldozers: The Struggle over Sulaiman-Too’s Cemeteries
Aksana Ismailbekova writes about the competing claims on Sulaiman-Too, the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyrgyzstan, and how memory and development clash in this context.
Between Sacredness and Bulldozers: The Struggle over Sulaiman-Too’s Cemeteries
Aksana Ismailbekova writes about the competing claims on Sulaiman-Too, the only UNESCO World Heritage Site in Kyrgyzstan, and how memory and development clash in this context.
On Peformances and Playing Cards
After attending Brecht's 'The Threepenny Opera' in Berlin, James Harriman-Smith reflects on what performance is today and what it used to be.
Fragmented Memories: The Struggle for the Anti-colonial Past in Modern-Day Angola
João Fusco Ribeiro writes about the contested memory of the anti-colonial liberation struggle in Angola.
Extinct but not forgotten: how museum collections help study the evolution of Hawaiian honeycreepers
In diesem Beitrag von Grigory Evtukh über Hawaiianische Kleidervögel lernen wir, wie naturkundliche Museumssammlungen etwas zum Schutz der Biodiversität beitragen können.
The Politics of Teaching Conflict: Memory and Education in Kenya
Auf Grundlage von Interviews mit kenianischen Pädagog:innen untersucht Meredith Whye die Rolle der Schulbildung in Kenia für einen stabilen Frieden.
Scientific Instruments in the Greek Enlightenment
In diesem Beitrag skizziert Artemis Yagou die Verwendung wissenschaftlicher Instrumente und die damit verbundenen neuen Praktiken und Mentalitäten in Griechenland um die Wende zum 19. Jahrhundert.
The Rise and Fall of a National Story
In this blog entry, Yasamin Alkhansa traces the shift in hegemonic values in Iranian school textbooks from various decades using a lesson that has been modified several times by the Iranian Ministry of Education.
“In God’s name I enter”
Amelia Hutchinson (University of Cambridge) on Managing the Body and the Environment in Early Modern Mining
A Tea Bowl from Chu
Danijela Lugarić Vukas (University of Zagreb) on Oxana Timofeeva’s Book “How to Love a Homeland” and the Role of Autofictionality in the Age of War
Modelling historical spatial data
Wieslawa Duży (Polish Academy of Sciences) on her research project and developing historical geoinformation