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University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project project image

University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project

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Assessment of tombs in the Kings’ Valley used for burials of royal family and entourage (ca. 1350 BCE), looted (ca. 1000 BCE), and reused for burials of members of priestly families (ca. 800–700 BCE).

Project 0805
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
Historische Lernprozesse erforschen – Research of Learning Processes in History (RicH) project image

Historische Lernprozesse erforschen – Research of Learning Processes in History (RicH)

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Die RicH-Studie erforscht die Operationen narrativer Kompetenz und deren qualitative Unterschiede anhand eines Novizen-Experten-Vergleichs zwecks empirischer Fundierung eines Progressionsmodelles.

Project 084E
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania project image

Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania

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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.

Project 083D
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MARK16

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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.

Project 0844
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Delille

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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.

Project 081B
Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe project image

Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe

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The Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (AWG) is a critical-historical edition which aims to make Webern’s entire oeuvre accessible to musical scholarship and practice in a scholarly form.

Project 0806
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
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
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
Aura und Effizienz. Leistungsorientierte Materialisierung und Spiritualisierung in der Literatur der 1920-30er-Jahre: Emmy Hennings, Marieluise Fleisser, Friedrich Glauser und Bruno Goetz project image

Aura und Effizienz. Leistungsorientierte Materialisierung und Spiritualisierung in der Literatur der 1920-30er-Jahre: Emmy Hennings, Marieluise Fleisser, Friedrich Glauser und Bruno Goetz

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Das Projekt untersucht die diskursiven und praktischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Materialisierung und Spiritualisierung in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der 1920-30er Jahre.

Project 0846