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Refugee Housing
No 45
In one of her ongoing projects, historian Emily Brownell investigates the history of refugee housing.
Brownian Motion and Microphysical Reality c. 1900
In the years around 1900 scientific research became increasingly concerned with sub-microscopic entities, including atoms, molecules, ions, bacteria,
Aging Research in Nineteenth-century Biology
Humans have learned from experience that time is a factor that reveals change. In combination with the conception that an individual’s life is limited
Funding Institutions, The Max Planck International Research Network on Aging (MaxNetAging)
A Cultural History of Breathing
Familiar breathing—right under our noses—has at times followed and at times constituted the ever-changing boundary between what is considered “natural
Fighting Uncertainty and Promising Safety—Practices of Evidence for Technical Safety in 20th Century Engineering
Since the beginning of industrialization the safety of technological systems, the reliability of artifacts, and the avoidance of engineering accidents
Medical Practice in 12th Century China as reflected in Medical Case Records
In my project I study the clinical encounter between a physician and a patient during the Song dynasty (960-1279). That medicine is unlike other scien
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Anthropocene Lectures | Sep 21, 2017 | 17:00 to 18:30
Historians and the Anthropocene: A Discipline and an Interdisciplinary Concept
MoreCollectivities and Individuals: Freud and Spencer
In the newly emerging discipline of psychology in the middle of the nineteenth century, individuals occupied center stage. Yet two seminal figures, He