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I-GEOARCHive project image

I-GEOARCHive

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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.

Project 0838
Tall al-Hamidiya Online project image

Tall al-Hamidiya Online

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The Swiss excavations at Tall al-Hamidiya (NE Syria) revealed a 245-ha Late Bronze Age city. Architecture and texts make it likely that the site was Taidu, the royal residence of the Mitanni empire.

Project 085E
The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography project image

The International Olympic Committee members (1894-1972). A transnational elite prosopography

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Ce projet reconstituera les trajectoires familiales, professionnelles, sociales et politiques des 213 membres du CIO cooptés avant 1972.

Project 0114
Postkarten Russland project image

Postkarten Russland

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The project makes an extensive collection of Russian postcards public which is held by the Chair of Eastern European History at the University of Basel.

Project 0811
Textures of Sacred Scripture project image

Textures of Sacred Scripture

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Textures of Sacred Scripture. Materials and Semantics of Sacred Book Ornament in the Western Middle Ages, 780-1300

Project 0860
Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions project image

Prototyping Workflows for Digital Editions

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

Project 0861
Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Schweizer Geschichtsunterricht project image

Globalgeschichtliche Perspektiven im Schweizer Geschichtsunterricht

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Das Forschungsprojekt liefert empirische Ergebnisse auf breiter Basis zu Potentialen von globalgeschichtlichen Perspektiven im Geschichtsunterricht.

Project 084A
Religious speech embarrassed, radio debates and controversies around gender: Switzerland and France, 2006-2016 project image

Religious speech embarrassed, radio debates and controversies around gender: Switzerland and France, 2006-2016

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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.

Project 0101
Hôtel de Musique Bern project image

Hôtel de Musique Bern

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The database documents the different kinds of spectacles such as theatre plays, operas, ballets, or concerts that took place in the Hôtel de Musique in Bern between 1766 and 1905.

Project 081C
Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture project image

Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture

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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).

Project 0118
WordWeb / IDEM: A new way of representing Intertextuality in Drama of the Early Modern Period project image

WordWeb / IDEM: A new way of representing Intertextuality in Drama of the Early Modern Period

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WordWeb/IDEM offers an innovative digital database for representing intertextuality in the drama of Shakespeare’s time.

Project 0826
Bilddatenbank Bibliothek St. Moritz project image

Bilddatenbank Bibliothek St. Moritz

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Bibliothek St. Moritz Dokumentation is the local history archive of the community of St. Moritz, Switzerland.

Project 0804