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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.

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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.
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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.

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Fotoarchiv Kunsthalle Basel
Kunsthalle Basel is Switzerland’s oldest active art museum displaying contemporary art.

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Portraits of Unbelonging: Photography, the Ottoman State, and the making of Armenian emigrants 1896-1908
How do photography and statecraft intersect in the making and unmaking of citizens? How and why did photography become a new media for unmaking subjects in late 19th c Ottoman empire?

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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
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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.

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

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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

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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 ?

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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.

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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.

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