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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.

Drawings of gods: A Multicultural and Interdisciplinary Approach of Children’s Representations of Supernatural Agents
Fondé sur plusieurs centaines de dessins dans diverses régions du monde, ce projet étudie l’évolution de la représentation de Dieu ou d’autres êtres surnaturels chez des enfants et des adolescents.

Symbolism of light in Early Christian sacred buildings in the Swiss Alpine valleys
Were early Christian churches aligned with the sun or the moon? A study across Switzerland and Northern Italy explores the links between the sky and sacred architecture.
Le campane del Canton Ticino. Studio di un patrimonio materiale e immateriale
Ricerca interdisciplinare sulle campane del Canton Ticino, come oggetti storici, artistici e musicali ma anche come mezzi di comunicazione per le comunità, tramite specifici codici tradizionali.

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.
WordWeb / IDEM: A new way of representing Intertextuality in Drama of the Early Modern Period
WordWeb/IDEM offers an innovative digital database for representing intertextuality in the drama of Shakespeare’s time.

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.

Fotoarchiv Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is Switzerland’s oldest active art museum displaying contemporary art.
The Electronic Catalogue of the Samaria Ivory Artifacts and Related Material
"Samaria Ivories" provides access to a catalogue with color photographs of the entire assemblage of ivory carvings and related material that once decorated luxurious furniture of the Israelite elite.

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.

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.

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