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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.

Prendre une position épistémique dans l’interaction. Les marqueurs du savoir, du non-savoir et du doute en français project image
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Prendre une position épistémique dans l’interaction. Les marqueurs du savoir, du non-savoir et du doute en français

A systematic and multimodal study of French epistemic and evidential markers as emerging in various professional/institutional settings documented by “natural“ video-recorded data.
Canon of solar eclipses from 2501 BCE to 1000 CE project image
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Canon of solar eclipses from 2501 BCE to 1000 CE

When did the Sun darken in antiquity? Discover calculated solar eclipses and their traces in ancient historical sources.
vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online project image
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vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online

vitrosearch - Database for stained glass and glass art by the Vitrocentre Romont
Hieroglyphic Palaeography of the Ptolemaic Temple at Deir el-Medina project image
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Hieroglyphic Palaeography of the Ptolemaic Temple at Deir el-Medina

An online palaeography of hieroglyphs from the Ptolemaic temple of Deir el-Medina
Fotoarchiv Kunsthalle Basel project image
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Fotoarchiv Kunsthalle Basel

Kunsthalle Basel is Switzerland’s oldest active art museum displaying contemporary art.
Decolonizing Socialism: Entangled Internationalism. An Intersectional Study of Cold War Projects from East Germany in Cinema and Cybernetics with Relevance for the 21st Century project image
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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.
The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography project image
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The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography

Ce projet reconstituera les trajectoires familiales, professionnelles, sociales et politiques des 213 membres du CIO cooptés avant 1972.
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
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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.
Participation in Social Health Protection: An Anthropological Case Study in Tanzania project image
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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.
WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language project image
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WoPoss: A world of possibilities. Modal pathways over an extra-long period of time: the diachrony of modality in the Latin language

The WoPoss project aims at reconstructing the evolution of modal meanings in Latin from the prehistory of the language up to the 7th century CE, through a linguistically annotated, diachronic corpus.
Alice in DaSCHland project image
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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!
Société de cour, élites et finances : de l’Hôtel des princes de Savoie à l’État moderne project image
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Société de cour, élites et finances : de l’Hôtel des princes de Savoie à l’État moderne

Ce projet étudie l’organisation de l’Hôtel de la cour de Savoie du XIIIe au XVe s., son évolution en une institution réglementée et hiérarchisée et propose une étude prosopographique de ses membres.