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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?
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.
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).
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.
vitrosearch: stained glass and glass art in Switzerland online
vitrosearch - Database for stained glass and glass art by the Vitrocentre Romont