MPIWG in the Excellence Initiative: The MPIWG participated in the successful renewal application of the TOPOI Excellence Cluster of the Freie Universität and Humboldt-Universität as well as in the successful application of the Excellence Cluster Bild-Wi
New publication: Uljana Feest and Thomas Sturm, former research fellows at the MPIWG, have edited the special edition of "Erkenntnis" on "What (Good) is Historical Epistemology?"
New Call for Papers for the conference Deaf World/Hearing World: Spaces, Techniques, and Things in Culture and History at the MPIWG on December 10-11, 2012.
New preprints: Han F. Vermeulen, “Linguistik und Völkerkunde,” Alfred Gierer, “Mit Schiller gegen den ‘Egoismus der Vernunft,’” and Annette Vogt, “Die Berliner Humboldt-Universität von 1945/1946 bis 1960/1961.”
New publication: Daryn Lehoux, former postdoctoral fellow at the MPIWG, has published “What did the Romans know? An inquiry into science and worldmaking.”
New virtual exhibition “The Antikythera Mechanism,” held at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, organized in cooperation with the excellence cluster TOPOI, is online.
New publication: Viktoria Tkaczyk, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MPIWG, has published “Himmels-Falten: zur Theatralität des Fliegens in der Frühen Neuzeit.”
New publication: Dieter Hoffmann, research scholar at the MPIWG, has published “The German Physical Society and the Third Reich: physicists between autonomy and accommodation.”
New publications: Suparna Choudhury, Research Scholar at the MPIWG, has published “Critical neuroscience: a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience.” Jaume Navarro, former Visiting Scholar at the MPIWG, has published “Science an