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Beyond the Text. New Funerary Compositions from the Graeco-Roman Period: Textualities and Archaeology in Thebes project image

Beyond the Text. New Funerary Compositions from the Graeco-Roman Period: Textualities and Archaeology in Thebes

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Philological and archaeological project exploring the emergence and evolution of the funerary literature of the Graeco-Roman Period

Project 083A
Textures of Sacred Scripture project image

Textures of Sacred Scripture

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

Project 0860
Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg project image

Tonbandsammlung Folkfestival auf der Lenzburg

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Folk music enthusiasts gathered between 1972 and 1980 at the picturesque Lenzburg Castle. Discover the audio heritage of the legendary Lenzburg Folk Festival

Project 082A
The Medieval Frame of Monumental Portal Sculpture (Pedestals, Canopies, Niches) : Cultural Transfers and Agency (12th-13th Centuries) project image

The Medieval Frame of Monumental Portal Sculpture (Pedestals, Canopies, Niches) : Cultural Transfers and Agency (12th-13th Centuries)

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This project aims to valorise and better comprehend the various elements surrounding monumental statues of church portals, namely pedestals, canopies, and niches.

Project 0116
Big Data in Agriculture: The Making of Smart Farms project image

Big Data in Agriculture: The Making of Smart Farms

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This project contributes empirical evidence to the discussion of the opportunities and risks associated with smart farming.

Project 082D
L’epistolario di Ugo Foscolo: catalogo project image

L’epistolario di Ugo Foscolo: catalogo

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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.

Project 084B
Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse : autour de la collection Waldau (1920-1990) project image

Cinéma et (neuro)psychiatrie en Suisse : autour de la collection Waldau (1920-1990)

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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 ?

Project 0106
Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions project image

Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions

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

Project 0861
The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II) project image

The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)

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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

Project 084C
Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908 project image

Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908

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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?

Project 0827
Die Bilderfolgen der Basler Frühdrucke: Spätmittelalterliche Didaxe als Bild-Text-Lektüre project image

Die Bilderfolgen der Basler Frühdrucke: Spätmittelalterliche Didaxe als Bild-Text-Lektüre

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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.

Project 0803
Postkarten Russland project image

Postkarten Russland

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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.

Project 0811