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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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Photo Archive of the Cultural Anthropology Switzerland (CAS)
With its approximately 500,000 photo objects from across the world, the photo archive of the CAS fosters new approaches to the study and consumption of photographs.
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Contribution à une histoire de la culture cinématographique en Suisse : étude des activités de la Cinémathèque suisse entre 1951 et 1981
Ce projet étudie les activités de la Cinémathèque suisse de 1951 à 1981 et analyse la manière dont elle s'est construit une légitimité nationale et internationale en l'absence de salle de projection.

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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.

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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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The Churches of Rome in the Middle Ages, 1050-1300. Liturgical Furnishing and Architecture (Corpus Cosmatorum II)
Each Roman church that was affected by building work in the High Middle Ages is presented in alphabetical order, including its architecture (with associated annexes) and its liturgical furnishing

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I-GEOARCHive
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.
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Vitae Sanctae Wiboradae — Lebensbeschreibungen der heiligen Wiborada von St. Gallen, herausgegeben, übersetzt und mit einer Einleitung und Anmerkungen versehen von Walter Berschin
Edition und Übersetzung der beiden von den St. Galler Mönchen Ekkehart I. und Herimannus verfassten Viten Wiboradas von St. Gallen († 926) durch Walter Berschin.
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U.D. Metzger – Handschrift eines Hinterglasmalers. Digitale Edition, Kommentar und Werkverzeichnis
Die Handschrift Ulrich Daniel Metzgers (1671–1738) dokumentiert das Leben des Glasers und Hinterglasmalers und wirft Licht auf die Lebensumstände wandernder Künstler in der Barockzeit.

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Fagottini and tenoroons: small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries
The organological and musicological aspects of small-sized bassoons from the 18th and 19th centuries were the focus of a research team in Basel from 2017–2023.

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Rome in the Early Middle Ages: Arts and Culture
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).

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Bildung in Zahlen (Education by numbers)
Annotated historical statistics on the development and use of cantonal education programmes and the vocational education and training system in Switzerland in the 19th and 20th centuries.
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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.