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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.

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.

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

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).

vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online
vitrosearch - Database for stained glass and glass art by the Vitrocentre Romont

Alice in DaSCHland
Alice in DaSCHland whisks you away on a whimsical digital journey where data and metadata spark fantastical adventures - showcase project from DaSCH!

Gustave Roud, Complete works
This database is the accompaniment of the critical edition of Gustave Roud’s work. It hosts the digital facsimiles of Gustave Roud’s archive, which includes manuscripts and printed materials.

Mit Stilus, Volumen und Spiegel. Untersuchungen zur Verbreitung von Lesen und Schreiben bei Frauen aus dem römischen Reich anhand von Funden aus dem Grabkontext.
By analyzing burial finds linked to the deceased, the dissertation «Mit Stilus, Volumen und Spiegel» traces female literacy in the Latin West of the Roman Empire.

Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions
Anschauungsbeispiel einer generischen Edition: Korrespondenz zwischen dem Philologen G. Paris (1839-1903) und einem seiner Schüler, dem Philosophen W. Lutosławski (1863-1954).

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.

Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)
With its approximately 500,000 photo objects from across the world, the photo archive of the CAS fosters new approaches to the study and consumption of photographs.

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.

Premiers théâtres romands
The project documents theatrical practices in the French-Swiss regions between the 15ᵗʰ and 16ᵗʰ c. It is a part of the SNSF project focused on versified public communication in French (15ᵗʰ-16ᵗʰ c.)