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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.
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

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.
Lesen als soziale Negotiation - Rekonstruktion der Bibliothek von Sigmund Gossembrot (1417–1493)
Das Projekt erarbeitet und rekonstruiert den Bestand der Bibliothek von Sigmund Gossembrot (1417-1493)

Prendre une position épistémique dans l’interaction. Les marqueurs du savoir, du non-savoir et du doute en français
A systematic and multimodal study of French epistemic and evidential markers as emerging in various professional/institutional settings documented by “natural“ video-recorded data.

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.

MARK16
MARK16 is a SNSF PRIMA project. It reassesses the diverse endings of the Gospel of Mark through manuscript data, available on its Virtual Research Environment ISSN 2673-9836, https://mark16.sib.swiss.
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania
This project calls for a broad view of social health protection, comprising health care funding and people’s ubiquitous but less visible strife for participation in self-organized groups and networks.

Tall al-Hamidiya Online
The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.

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

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?
Delille
NIE-INE outcome for the project `Reconstruire Delille' in relation to the scholarly `reverse' edition of the reception of the third canto of Jacques Delille's L'homme des champs.

Decolonizing Socialism: Entangled Internationalism. An Intersectional Study of Cold War Projects from East Germany in Cinema and Cybernetics with Relevance for the 21st Century
It aims to apply decolonial methods and to mobilize practice-based approaches to engage in the critical analysis of case studies of art practices from socialist geographies of the Cold War period.