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Martial Culture in Late Medieval Towns
The multifaceted martial culture of the late Medieval European town is sketched by this research project describing the ownership, handling, symbolism, use, and materiality of medieval weapons, and their cultural impact on urban society.

I-GEOARCHive
I-GEOARCHive provides geoarchaeological data and images (profile photos, thin section scans, microscope photos, layer descriptions, mortar and ceramic samples, etc.) from various archaeological sites.

Annotating Media of Bruno Manser
Bruno Manser has left a variety of media in which he documented the nomadic life of the Penan. The project shows and annotates these documents.

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).

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).

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.

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.

DaSCH – Swiss National Data and Service Center for the Humanities
This project contains material about DaSCH and events organised by DaSCH. All documents are made available in the original language of the presentations.

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

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.

Life Histories of Theban Tombs
LHTT focuses on a cluster of tombs in the Theban Necropolis (Egypt). It investigates the evolution of the hillside and explores the history of the tombs from early 2nd mill. BCE to 20th c. CE.
Religious speech embarrassed, radio debates and controversies around gender: Switzerland and France, 2006-2016
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.