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Research Insights

Our Research Insights interview series offers short videos and podcasts by Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) scholars discussing their research topics, books, and theories.

Research Insights Videos

Digital Science Speaker Series - Meet Dr Maria Avxentevskaya and Dr Ben Johnson

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Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia

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A New Approach to Understanding Knowledge and Ownership

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How Can the History of Earth Sciences Help to Explain Contemporary Distrust Towards Science in General?

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What Can the History of Schizophrenia Teach Us about “Revolutionary” Breakthroughs in Science and Medicine?

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"Repenser l'évolution de la connaissance pour l'Anthropocène"

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How Can Sound Help Us to Better Understand Early and Medieval China?

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What Can Artisanal Production Teach Us about Knowledge and Ownership?

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How Does the Homogenization of Scientific Knowledge Occur?

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Alles bewegt! Wissen unterwegs - Canzler & Kalmbach reden über Mobilität

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Jed Buchwald: Isaac Newton and the Philosophy of Science

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Die Expedition #fürdasWissen - Expedition for Knowledge

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Leonardo: Virtual Tour with Sabine Hoffmann (with English Subtitles)

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Leonardo: Virtual Tour with Serge von Arx

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Behind the Scenes: Black Holes | The Edge of All We Know

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Women in Science: Shirley Ann Jackson

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Diplomacy in the Time of Cholera

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About the Berliner Antike-Kolleg

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Interview: Local Gazetteers Research Tools

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How Does Local Knowledge Influence Broader Concepts and Structures of Information?

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Covid and Historical Epistemology

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Anthropocene River Campus: The Human Delta

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How Does China Remove Air Pollution from Cities for Prestigious International Events?

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History of Science ON CALL: Anna Elsner

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History of Science ON CALL: Katja Krause (in German)

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History of Science ON CALL: Lara Keuck

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History of Science ON CALL: Lara Keuck (in German)

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History of Science ON CALL: Mathias Grote (in German)

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History of Science ON CALL: Vivian Shaw

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History of Science ON CALL: Iwo Amelung (in German)

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History of Science ON CALL: Lyle Fearnley

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History of Science ON CALL: Clare Griffin (in Russian)

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History of Science ON CALL: Clare Griffin

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History of Science ON CALL: Sabina Leonelli (in Italian)

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History of Science ON CALL: Sabina Leonelli

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Executive Director Dagmar Schäfer Awarded Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize 2020

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Mississippi. An Anthropocene River Short Film

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Executive Director Dagmar Schäfer on Mobility and Humanities

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Experience in the Premodern Sciences of Soul & Body ca. 800–1650

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History of Science in Prehistory and Early History

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Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Eine Revolution der Geisteswissenschaften

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The Crafting of the 10,000 Things. Shifting Frameworks of Knowledge and Technology in Imperial China

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Heisenberg and the Search for a Final Theory: An Interview

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Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa

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Are We Experiencing a "Sixth Extinction" and Does It Matter?

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Training Children, Imagining Industrial Adulthoods

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Praktisches und wissenschaftliches Wissen

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Kultivierung von Lotus und der Betrieb der „Palastmaschine“

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Der andere Galilei

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Research Insights Podcasts

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Science Social 10: Times of Transience

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Science Social 09: How Alchemy Helped Feed Early Modern Europe

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Science Social 08: Léon Rosenfeld and the Quest for Unification

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Into the Kn/own/

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Kann man Wissen enteignen, Dagmar Schäfer?

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Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (but It’s All Interconnected)

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Surroundings

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IsisCB on Pandemics: Fundamental Concepts in Understanding Pandemic Diseases

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Rules with Lorraine Daston

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The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

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Access to Asian Cultural Heritage and Enabling New Ways to Connect and Study Them

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Has Humanity Ushered in a New Geological Era?

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Lorraine Daston on Renaissance Science

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Anthropocene: A New Era? (in German)

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History, Morality and the Pandemic

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Venezia: città dell’antropocene

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How We Got our Grid and How We Get a Better One

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Science Social 07: Leonardo's Intellectual Cosmos

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New Books in Science, Technology, and Society: Objectivity

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Leonardos Bücherliste

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Science Social 06: Grasping the Invisible

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Science Social 05: The Discovery of Black Holes

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SWR2 Wissen: Nikola Tesla and the Dawn of the Electrical Age (in German)

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Fixing the Grid: Our Relationship With Electricity

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Science Social 04: "The 'How' of 'How-To?'"

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Leaders in Cleantech - Gretchen Bakke, Author

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SRB Podcast: Zoos and Animals in Eastern Europe and Russia

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Science Social 03: "LoGaRT: History 4.0"

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Science Social 02: "The Mask—Arrayed"

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Science Social 01: "China on the Rise in Science"

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Plastic Waste in the Ocean: Researchers Sounded Alarm Back in 1972 (in German)

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The Discovery of Plastic Pollution

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Bridging the Gaps-Podcast: Jürgen Renn on "The Evolution of Knowledge"

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Governing the Airpocalypse—Insights from China’s "War on Smog"

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Ought vs. Is: Reclaiming nature as a moral guide

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Decolonization in Action Episode 5: Economics, Expertise, and Revolution in Postcolonial Sudan

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Decolonization in Action Episode 4: Colonial Medicalization and Homosexuality in the Philippines

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Büchernarr und Zeichenkünstler: Warum Leonardo da Vinci kein Universalgenie war

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Decolonization in Action Episode 3: Leftism in Action: A History of Leftist People of Color

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Decolonization in Action Episode 2: A Topography of Decoloniality

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Decolonization in Action Episode 1, Part 2: Decolonizing Berlin

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Decolonization in Action Episode 1, Part 1: Decolonizing Berlin

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Forestry and Scientific Ecology

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Engineers and the Making of the Francoist Regime

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Rice and History of Science

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What do Historians want from "Materiality"? Reflections on Theory and the Humanities since the 1970s

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