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Healing Arts. Representations and Practices of Medical Knowledge in Art and Literature (9th-12th centuries)
The project explores the entangled histories of botany, art and health. It considers plant images in early medieval herbals as modes of knowledge that articulate and negotiate medical practices.
Delille
NIE-INE outcome for the project `Reconstruire Delille' in relation to the scholarly `reverse' edition of the reception of the third canto of Jacques Delille's L'homme des champs.

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.

Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s
The SNSF PRIMA project “Operative TV: Audiovisual Closed-Circuits from the Military to the Classroom, 1930s-1990s” studies the uses of TV in industrial, medical, educational and military contexts.

Big Data in Agriculture: The Making of Smart Farms
This project contributes empirical evidence to the discussion of the opportunities and risks associated with smart farming.