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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.

Bernoulli-Euler Online (BEOL)
The project Bernoulli-Euler Online (BEOL) focuses on the mathematics influenced by the Bernoulli dynasty and Leonhard Euler and presents these materials to the public and researchers.

Côté chaire, côté rue, La Réforme à Genève (1517-1617)
The database is the result of the transposition of a virtual exhibition realized in the context of the 500th anniversary of the Lutheran Reformation (1517).

Healing Arts. Representations and Practices of Medical Knowledge in Art and Literature (9th-12th centuries)
The project explores the entangled histories of botany, art and health. It considers plant images in early medieval herbals as modes of knowledge that articulate and negotiate medical practices.

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.

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.

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.

I-GEOARCHive
I-GEOARCHive provides geoarchaeological data and images (profile photos, thin section scans, microscope photos, layer descriptions, mortar and ceramic samples, etc.) from various archaeological sites.

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.)

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.

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.

cache
cache is a hybrid publication tool for research groups in the humanities.

Le scénario chez Alain Tanner : discours et pratiques. Une approche génétique du récit filmique et des représentations de genre
Ce projet étudie, dans une perspective narratologique/genre studies, la genèse des scénarios des films d’Alain Tanner, ainsi que les discours sur cette question tenus par le cinéaste.