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Beyond the Text. New Funerary Compositions from the Graeco-Roman Period: Textualities and Archaeology in Thebes
Philological and archaeological project exploring the emergence and evolution of the funerary literature of the Graeco-Roman Period

Textures of Sacred Scripture
Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300
Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg
Folk music enthusiasts gathered between 1972 and 1980 at the picturesque Lenzburg Castle. Discover the audio heritage of the legendary Lenzburg Folk Festival

The Medieval Frame of Monumental Portal Sculpture (Pedestals, Canopies, Niches) : Cultural Transfers and Agency (12th-13th Centuries)
This project aims to valorise and better comprehend the various elements surrounding monumental statues of church portals, namely pedestals, canopies, and niches.

Big Data in Agriculture: The Making of Smart Farms
This project contributes empirical evidence to the discussion of the opportunities and risks associated with smart farming.

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.

Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse : autour de la collection Waldau (1920-1990)
Comment les psychiatres et neurologues suisses se sont-ils emparés, au XXe siècle, du médium filmique dans leur pratique de médecins, d’enseignants et de chercheurs ?

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).

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

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?

Die Bilderfolgen der Basler Frühdrucke: Spätmittelalterliche Didaxe als Bild-Text-Lektüre
An art-scientific monograph of the richly illustrated early prints in Basel - the most important center of early letterpress printing in the territory of present-day Switzerland.

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.