department iii

Tree of Knowledge HaK133, painting by Hilma af Klint, courtesy of The Hilma af Klint Foundation _ Photo_Moderna Museet-Stockholm.

Direktorin Dagmar Schäfer

T +49 30 22667 151

Department III studies the history of knowledge and action considering the changing role of artifacts: texts, objects, and spaces. Our research collectively examines the processes and structures by which people grappled with the materiality of existence. Through the analysis of everyday actions, we interrogate the boundaries and intersections between the inner workings of objects and all domains of life. Together these approaches allow us to pursue inquiries into historical epistemologies of action. Our research structure has three entry points: artifacts (things), action (making), knowledge (work). 

Outreach

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Journalists in Residence

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Artists in Residence

Generating Knowledge: Event Series

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Manners of Reckoning

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Dept. III Colloquium

Veranstaltungen

Heavens in Your Hand: Astral Knowledge of Ancient and Medieval Coins

MEHR

"Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere” Working Group Meeting

MEHR

Approaching, Translating, and Engaging Cosmology

MEHR

Nachrichten & Presse

Stipendien und Stellenangebote

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Dagmar Schäfer in detektor.fm-Sendung über Ownership of Knowledge

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Thyssen-Stipendium für Qiao Yang für „The Golden Horde: Art, Material Culture, Architecture 1227–1502“

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