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Carola Sachse

Visiting Scholar (Jan 2023-Dec 2024)

Prof. Dr.

Carola Sachse joined the Research Program on the History of the Max Planck Society (GMPG) in 2016. She is a professor (i.R.) at the Institute for Contemporary History of the University of Vienna. She received her PhD in Communications and History (1987) and Habilitation (2001) entitled “Der Hausarbeitstag. Gerechtigkeit und Gleichberechtigung in Ost und West 1939–1994” from the Technical University Berlin.

Carola’s current research focuses on the history of science and gender in the twentieth century. Within the framework of the GMPG project, she deals with the history of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. Her general research interests include history of science in the twentieth century, gender history, and corporate and social history.

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Selected Publications

Brandt, Christina, Anna Klassen, Gregor Lax, Jürgen Renn, Carola Sachse, Martina Schlünder, Florian Schmaltz, Juliane Scholz, Alexander von Schwerin, and Thomas Turnbull (2024). “Politische und ethische Herausforderungen der Forschung.” In Die Max…

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Kraft, Alison, Jürgen Renn, Carola Sachse, and Peter Schöttler (2024). “Die MPG in der Welt.” In Die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft: Wissenschafts- und Zeitgeschichte 1945–2005, ed. J. Renn, C. Reinhardt, J. Kocka, F. Schmaltz, B. Kolboske, J. Balcar, and…

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Sachse, Carola (2023). Wie politisch darf Wissenschaft sein? Interview by Christina Beck. Max-Planck-Gesellschaft / News. https://www.mpg.de/20997750/wie-politisch-darf-wissenschaft-sein.

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Sachse, Carola (2023). Wissenschaft und Diplomatie: die Max-Planck-Gesellschaft im Feld der internationalen Politik (1945–2000). Studien zur Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft 4. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. https://hdl.handle.net/21…

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Carola Sachse interviewed on science and diplomacy and the historical role of the Max Planck Society

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Carola Sachse interviewed in Tagesspiegel on science diplomacy and the Max Planck Society

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Carola Sachse's book Wissenschaft und Diplomatie reviewed in FAZ article 

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