Research projects
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Feeling the Traces of the Colonial Past
The aim of this subproject is to understand how dance can be used to mobilise feelings and emotions for a better understanding of the colonial and slavery past.
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Visualizing Gravity
The PhD project investigates the conceptualisation of gravity in visual arts, before and after Isaac Newton’s treatise of 1687.
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Hearing Conflicts (HEARCON)
This research brings together an interdisciplinary team of scholars employing creative methodologies to explore museological strategies for contending with colonial histories and “difficult knowledge.”
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The Marzuolo Archaeological Project
Using targeted excavation, spatial and scientific data analysis, 3D-modelling and material studies, this project aims to highlight the potential of Podere Marzuolo to function as a paragon of the varied nature of Roman rural settlement.
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Moving Images
Paintings with moveable parts operated at the crossroads of art, philosophy, theology, literature, and science, but have never been analysed as phenomena within these frames. This project offers a new perspective on early modern material culture.
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Violence and Affect in Female Poetic Activism in Contemporary Mexico
Contemporary Mexican cultural production is strongly influenced by violence. This project studies how the work of three Mexican female poets generates and transmits affect in order to mediate memories of violence and engage an audience.
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Shipping the World Trade Center
This book project focuses on the ruins of the World Trade Center following their removal from Ground Zero. It centers on the musealization of relics, the fetishization of WTC steel as sacred material, and the selling of the wreckage as scrap metal.
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Revisiting Gone with the Wind
There has been controversy surrounding Gone with the Wind due to its depiction of black characters. This research project examines how people in different places and in different times encountered the film and how their opinion has changed over time.
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Women managing Museums
This project researches the history of the first female administrators in European cultural heritage institutions.