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Explore cutting-edge humanities research projects hosted on our platform. Each project represents a unique contribution to Swiss cultural heritage and academic knowledge.

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Bildung in Zahlen (Education by numbers)
Annotated historical statistics on the development and use of cantonal education programmes and the vocational education and training system in Switzerland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

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Hôtel de Musique Bern
The database documents the different kinds of spectacles such as theatre plays, operas, ballets, or concerts that took place in the Hôtel de Musique in Bern between 1766 and 1905.

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A Gender Perspective on Film Character and Stardom: Studying the Production of Film Representations in the Forties (Claude Autant-Lara Collection, Swiss Film Archive)
This project studies the mechanisms of the construction of genre representations in the French cinematographic production of the 1940s.

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Société de cour, élites et finances : de l’Hôtel des princes de Savoie à l’État moderne
Ce projet étudie l’organisation de l’Hôtel de la cour de Savoie du XIIIe au XVe s., son évolution en une institution réglementée et hiérarchisée et propose une étude prosopographique de ses membres.
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Der späte Nietzsche. Digitale Edition der Druckdokumente
The digital edition project "Der späte Nietzsche" (The Late Nietzsche) publishes Friedrich Nietzsche's late estate digitally congruent to the manuscripts.

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Fagottini and tenoroons: small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries
The organological and musicological aspects of small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries were the focus of a research team in Basel from 2017–2023.
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Basler Edition der Bernoulli-Briefwechsel
Online edition of the unpublished correspondence of the Bernoulli family, managed by the Bernoulli-Euler-Zentrum at the University of Basel.
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U.D. Metzger – Handschrift eines Hinterglasmalers. Digitale Edition, Kommentar und Werkverzeichnis
Die Handschrift Ulrich Daniel Metzgers (1671–1738) dokumentiert das Leben des Glasers und Hinterglasmalers und wirft Licht auf die Lebensumstände wandernder Künstler in der Barockzeit.

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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.

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Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe
The Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (AWG) is a critical-historical edition which aims to make Webern’s entire oeuvre accessible to musical scholarship and practice in a scholarly form.

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Le campane del Canton Ticino. Studio di un patrimonio materiale e immateriale
Ricerca interdisciplinare sulle campane del Canton Ticino, come oggetti storici, artistici e musicali ma anche come mezzi di comunicazione per le comunità, tramite specifici codici tradizionali.

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The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)
Each Roman church that was affected by building work in the High Middle Ages is presented in alphabetical order, including its architecture (with associated annexes) and its liturgical furnishing