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Direktor Jürgen Renn im Interview mit Deutschlandfunk Kultur zum Anthropozän
Director Jürgen Renn interviewed on the Anthropocene in Deutschlandfunk Kultur
Read ArticleAnimal Lounges: Launching Nature into the History of Airports
Animals disturb airports in multiple ways while also being an integral part of their modus operandi. Airports create their own ecosystems that are emb
Experimentalization of Gardening in Nineteenth-Century Germany. Peter Joseph Lenné and the “Gärtner-Lehranstalt” at Wildpark/Potsdam
The promotion of agriculture, the improvement of natural resources, and the cultivation of the land in early nineteenth century Prussia were closely c
Publications, "The Garden as a Laboratory. Nineteenth-Century Scientific Gardening,” in: The Shape of Experiment, Preprint 318, Berlin: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, 2006, pp. 165-174., Funding Institutions, Volkswagenstiftung
A History of the “Typical”: Scientific Research in Prisoner-of-War-Camps from 1915 to 1918
During the First World War, the politically allied governments of Germany and Austria encouraged scientific commissions to conduct extensive research
Moral Progress
In several recent articles, I have been attempting to articulate a coherent account of concepts of progress. These articles build towards a book, curr
Man-Like Apes: Chimps, Gorillas, Orangutans, and European Explorers
This project traces and analyzes British and European early attempts to make sense of great apes. Monkeys and apes, claims Donna Haraway in Primate Vi
A New History of Medieval Science: Knowledge and Its Objects in Latin Europe and the Islamicate World, 750–1650
The goal of this project is to continue work on a book on the history of medieval Arabic and Latin science, co-authored with Ahmed Ragab of the Depart
Evolution in Times of Revolution: Darwinism, Nature, and Ideology in the Soviet Union
This project examines the conflicted history of Darwinism in Soviet Russia and the political implications of the theory of evolution for Bolshevik the
Workshop | Dec 7, 2018 | 09:30 to 18:00
Transnational Conceptions of Nature and Ecology
Dept. III
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