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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
Canonicity, Obscenity, and the Making of Modern Chaucer (COMMode): An Investigation of the Transmission and Audiences of The Canterbury Tales from 1700 to 2020 project image

Canonicity, Obscenity, and the Making of Modern Chaucer (COMMode): An Investigation of the Transmission and Audiences of The Canterbury Tales from 1700 to 2020

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This project will recover the untold history of how Chaucer became both an icon of literary fame and an icon of obscenity.

Project 083B
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
Historische-Kritische Gottfried Keller Ausgabe (HKKA) project image

Historische-Kritische Gottfried Keller Ausgabe (HKKA)

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Gottfried Keller (1819-1890) gehört zu den grossen Autoren des Realismus. Die eHKKA ediert Kellers Gesamtwerk: Seine Romane, Novellen, Gedichte, Tagebücher und Briefe.

Project 083C
Bildung in Zahlen (Education by numbers) project image

Bildung in Zahlen (Education by numbers)

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Annotated historical statistics on the development and use of cantonal education programmes and the vocational education and training system in Switzerland in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Project 0828
« Théâtre de société » (Age of Enlightenment - Second French Empire) project image

« Théâtre de société » (Age of Enlightenment - Second French Empire)

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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.

Project 0103
Le scénario chez Alain Tanner : discours et pratiques. Une approche génétique du récit filmique et des représentations de genre project image

Le scénario chez Alain Tanner : discours et pratiques. Une approche génétique du récit filmique et des représentations de genre

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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.

Project 0102
A Gender Perspective on Film Character and Stardom: Studying the Production of Film Representations in the Forties (Claude Autant-Lara Collection, Swiss Film Archive) project image

A Gender Perspective on Film Character and Stardom: Studying the Production of Film Representations in the Forties (Claude Autant-Lara Collection, Swiss Film Archive)

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This project studies the mechanisms of the construction of genre representations in the French cinematographic production of the 1940s.

Project 0107
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
cache project image

cache

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

Project 082B
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
Religious speech embarrassed, radio debates and controversies around gender: Switzerland and France, 2006-2016 project image

Religious speech embarrassed, radio debates and controversies around gender: Switzerland and France, 2006-2016

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Ce projet étudie les mobilisations religieuses sur des questions de genre et de sexualités et comment elles transforment les règles d’interlocution des espaces publics sécularisés et la parole des acteurs religieux.

Project 0101