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    Event Series

    Institute's Colloquium 2022–23

    Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War

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  • Photo,   On-site measuring of a sediment core at the GSSP candidate site Crawford Lake, Canada.

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    No. 81

    The Anthropocene’s Signal: What the Geology of the Present Beckons for the Future of Research

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  • Satellite view of Rotterdam

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    No. 80

    Anthropocene Formations: Process Landscapes of Petromodernity

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  • Maier Atalanta Fugiens, 1618.

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    N. 79

    A Vital Force? Exploring Agricultural Uses of Alchemy in Early Modern Europe, ca. 1550-1730

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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 administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

 

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Benjamin Johnson in WUSF Public Media on the invention of and perspectives on synthetic ammonia

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Anna Lisa Ahlers quoted in Süddeutsche Zeitung on the rise of China in the global system of science

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Matteo Valleriani in an interview with Deutschlandfunk Kultur on the benefits of AI-supported research

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Events

A Global History of the Dissertation that Shows the Transformations of the Scholar and Scholarship

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The Way We Used to Do It: Reflections on the Interpretation of Early Modern Texts

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Forensic Diplomacy and International Technical Cooperation: The Case of Mexico’s Extraordinary Mechanism for Forensic Identification

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Roundtable: The Securitization, Moralization, and Idealization of Academic Cooperation with the PRC

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