
Memory and Youth Work: The Politics of Military Cemeteries in Germany
On the maintenance of memory and war graves


Visions of Eden: The State of Nature as Idyll
The language of environmental harmony is often used in Indigenous rights advocacy, but does it perpetuate the myth of the “noble savage”?

The Grotesque: Mischief and Wonder in Renaissance Art
the misshapen, the disproportionate, the fantastic and the delirious


Death, Technology, and the “Return to Nature”
The influence of Romantic philosophy in the funeral industry

Spiritual Principles and Laboratory Work: The Wondrous History of Alchemy
Chemical philosophers, Galenists, and mechanists war over the meaning of scientific inquiry in early modern Europe.


The Mechanical Age: Automata between social critique and the uncanny
The uneasy space between human and machine in late 18th century Europe

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