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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.

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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.

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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.

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Canonicity, Obscenity, and the Making of Modern Chaucer (COMMode): An Investigation of the Transmission and Audiences of The Canterbury Tales from 1700 to 2020
This project will recover the untold history of how Chaucer became both an icon of literary fame and an icon of obscenity.

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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.

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Fagottini and tenoroons: small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries
The organological and musicological aspects of small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries were the focus of a research team in Basel from 2017–2023.

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Education and the European Digital Agenda: Switzerland, Germany and Sweden after 1970
This database documents the educational implications of technological change in information and communication technologies (ICT) between 1970 and 2000, focusing on political initiatives in Europe.

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« Théâtre de société » (Age of Enlightenment - Second French Empire)
Théâtre de société is defined as a theater that is mainly or totally amateur, non-profit, practiced in private homes. The project concerns the study of this form of theater.

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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.
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U.D. Metzger – Handschrift eines Hinterglasmalers. Digitale Edition, Kommentar und Werkverzeichnis
Die Handschrift Ulrich Daniel Metzgers (1671–1738) dokumentiert das Leben des Glasers und Hinterglasmalers und wirft Licht auf die Lebensumstände wandernder Künstler in der Barockzeit.

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Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Schweizer Geschichtsunterricht
Das Forschungsprojekt liefert empirische Ergebnisse auf breiter Basis zu Potentialen von globalgeschichtlichen Perspektiven im Geschichtsunterricht.

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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).

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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.