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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

Visualising Time-Space in East Asia: Mapping ‘Round Heavens & Square Earth’ from Ancient Rotating Devices to Late Modern Commercial Maps

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Foregrounding Fibers: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Materiality and Knowledge

MEHR

Japanese Buddhist Astral Sciences (Bonreki) of the 18th and 19th Centuries

MEHR

Nachrichten & Presse

Stellenangebote in Forschung und Digital Humanities

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Tristan Brown erhält den John K. Fairbank Prize in East Asian History für sein Buch Laws of the Land

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Mirage News zur 50-jährigen Zusammenarbeit zwischen MPG und der Chinesischen Akademie der Wissenschaften

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