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University of Basel Kings’ Valley Project
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).
Beyond the Text. New Funerary Compositions from the Graeco-Roman Period: Textualities and Archaeology in Thebes
Philological and archaeological project exploring the emergence and evolution of the funerary literature of the Graeco-Roman Period

Historische Lernprozesse erforschen – Research of Learning Processes in History (RicH)
Die RicH-Studie erforscht die Operationen narrativer Kompetenz und deren qualitative Unterschiede anhand eines Novizen-Experten-Vergleichs zwecks empirischer Fundierung eines Progressionsmodelles.
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania
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.

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.
Delille
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.

Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe
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.

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.

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 ?

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.

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

Aura und Effizienz. Leistungsorientierte Materialisierung und Spiritualisierung in der Literatur der 1920-30er-Jahre: Emmy Hennings, Marieluise Fleisser, Friedrich Glauser und Bruno Goetz
Das Projekt untersucht die diskursiven und praktischen Wechselwirkungen zwischen Materialisierung und Spiritualisierung in der deutschsprachigen Literatur der 1920-30er Jahre.