• Research Reels: Daniela Trinks with her recent article "Bilder einer Gesellschaft"

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    Daniela Trinks: The Association between Go Experience and Sustained Attention in Young Adults

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    Event Series

    Institute's Colloquium 2026–27

    Histories of Science That Lie Beneath

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  • Research Reels: Elizabeth Hughes with her edited volume "Biomedical Visions: Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice"

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    Elizabeth Hughes: Biomedical Visions: Epistemology, Medicine, and Art Practice

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    Laboratory for Multimodal History: An Inclusive Space for Audiovisual Experimentation and Collaborative Research

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society. Since its inception, the Institute has continually expanded the boundaries of the field of the history of science—critically interrogating basic concepts, bringing multiple disciplines into dialog, and experimenting with novel research methods.

 

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Max Planck–NTU Singapore CBCW launches seven projects connecting culture and biodiversity

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Knowing an Empire receives Honorable Mention of the D. Scott Palmer Best Edited Book Prize

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Joan Judge receives the 2026 John K. Fairbank Prize

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Global China and Post-Cold War Global Temporalities

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Water and a Mamluk Basin in Use

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Multiple Lives of Quantification in the Modern World

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Energy Literacy in Extreme Climates

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