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Institutskolloquium | Jul 3, 2018 | 14:00 to 16:00
Pre-War Kulturwissenschaft in Cold War Berlin
MoreInstitute's Colloquium | Jul 3, 2018 | 14:00 to 16:00
Pre-War Kulturwissenschaft in Cold War Berlin
MoreAnthropocene Lectures | Sep 21, 2017 | 17:00 to 18:30
Historians and the Anthropocene: A Discipline and an Interdisciplinary Concept
MoreInto the Fascist Forest—A Real Italian Controversy
No 3
Should we see the forest first and foremost as a forest, a natural landscape that perhaps should be restored, or as a disturbing memory of Mussolini? Ought we to recreate the forest, as a preservation of the memory of the country’s history? Or should we leave it to its destiny and forget about it?
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
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Into the Fascist Forest—A Real Italian Controversy
No 3
Should we see the forest first and foremost as a forest, a natural landscape that perhaps should be restored, or as a disturbing memory of Mussolini? Ought we to recreate the forest, as a preservation of the memory of the country’s history? Or should we leave it to its destiny and forget about it?
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Marco Armiero (KTH Royal Institute of Technology)
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"Sound of a Dog Barking": History Reveals the Significance of this North Korean Insult to Trump
No 2
This may sound like a fairly standard put down, but in fact Ri’s language was carefully selected. In the Korean context, a comparison with a dog is deeply insulting, and this likely explains Kim Jong-un’s follow-up reference to Trump as a “frightened dog,” and other derisive references to his age. Such claims allow the North Korean leadership to present itself as defiant to the world community.
John P. DiMoia
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"Sound of a Dog Barking": History Reveals the Significance of this North Korean Insult to Trump
No 2
This may sound like a fairly standard put down, but in fact Ri’s language was carefully selected. In the Korean context, a comparison with a dog is deeply insulting, and this likely explains Kim Jong-un’s follow-up reference to Trump as a “frightened dog,” and other derisive references to his age. Such claims allow the North Korean leadership to present itself as defiant to the world community.
John P. DiMoia
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Early Modern Mechanics: Benedetti
The Italian Renaissance of mechanics, an age in which “artist-engineers” were transformed into “scientist-engineers” and eventually at court, “mathema
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Changing Contexts and Practices of Basic Science during the Twentieth Century
Throughout the twentieth century the social and cultural dimension of basic science changed dramatically. These changes affected the daily practices o
Enlightening Insects: Insects and the Formation of the French Enlightenment 1700–1789
Elisabeth Wallmann's research explores the complex ways in which the eighteenth-century study of nature and the development of French Enlightenment po