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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.

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?

Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture
The project addresses the visual culture of the city of Rome (Vth-XIth ct.) by means of an interdisciplinary approach (art history, architecture, archaeology archaeometry, liturgy, epigraphy).

Textures of Sacred Scripture
Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300
Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns
The multifaceted martial culture of the late Medieval European town is sketched by this research project describing the ownership, handling, symbolism, use, and materiality of medieval weapons, and their cultural impact on urban society.
GLAUBENMACHENLASSEN
GLAUBENMACHENLASSEN is a visual anthropological and film ethnographic dissertation exploring identity in a cinematographic laboratory. Research period: 2009-2022.
The Electronic Catalogue of the Samaria Ivory Artifacts and Related Material
"Samaria Ivories" provides access to a catalogue with color photographs of the entire assemblage of ivory carvings and related material that once decorated luxurious furniture of the Israelite elite.

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.

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 ?

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.

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

Fotoarchiv Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is Switzerland’s oldest active art museum displaying contemporary art.