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

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    Science Social

    Episode 10: Times of Transience with Noa Hegesh and Keith Knapp

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    Knowledge Ownership Explored

    Into the Kn/own/

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    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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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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The MPIWG is currently advertising for several research, administration, and student assistant positions.

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Wilko Graf von Hardenberg's new book Sea Level: A History reviewed by Forbes

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RTAWD Reading Group

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MMLC Reading Group Meeting

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Discussion: Collective Life / Collectivities beyond Life

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Reconsidering the Mamluk Village: Readings on al-Dimashqī’s Filaḥa Manual

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