• Indian board game Pretwa. Source: Sandra Prengel, 2024.

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    No. 88

    Stories of Celestial Bodies: Transmitting, Translocating, and Transcreating Astral Knowledge across Asia

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  • Image 1: “Pure BASF Indigo Powder” label for the Chinese market, circa 1903; Image 2: Container for “Japanese Refined Camphor,” possibly 1910–1940; Image 3: A fertilizer advertisement by the largest agrochemical company in Palestine

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    No. 87

    From Natural to Synthetic? Rethinking Narratives of Chemical “Replacement” in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

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    Institute's Colloquium 2024-25: History of Science in Public

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    Knowledge Ownership Explored

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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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WiWiKo-China: New Directions from the MPIWG and DAAD in scientific cooperation with China

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Schmidt-Madsen on how "Snakes & Ladders" served as a cosmic roadmap of fate and storytelling on 5G4D

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Jacob Schmidt-Madsen interviewed by The Channel on games and their societal and ideological implications

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The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership

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Framing AI Risks: The Co-Production of Knowledge, Norms and Politics in China, the EU, and the US

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Indigenization and Preferential Treatments in Chinese Academia

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Diagrammatic Knowledge: Past Forms, Future Tools

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