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Gandhi’s Printing Press: Global Trajectories of Print Culture in the Indian Ocean

During his South African years (1893-1914), Mohandas Gandhi began fashioning his world-changing ideas on satyagraha/‘passive resistance’.

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Lift Stories: The intimate publics of elevators in 20th century Johannesburg

This project thinks through the space of the lift as urban affective infrastructure in Johannesburg over the 20th century.

Bridget Kenny Bridget Kenny

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Hair: The Natural and Unnatural History of a Human Obsession

Hair is one of the most distinctive features of the human species and of individual people.

Nina Jablonski Nina Jablonski

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Lithium-ion batteries and the commercialization of science – a narrative

The project is to write an autobiographical narrative about the research and development of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries from a research curiosity to practical reality.

Michael Thackeray Michael Thackeray
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