Call for papers for a special issues of the Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas on “Erasmian Science. The Influence on Early-Modern science of Erasmus of Rotterdam and his Legacy.”
Article by Jürgen Renn, director at the MPIWG, in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (Nov 21st) on the future development of the internet into an “epistemic web.”
The MPIWG has digitized two documentation folders by eyewitness Gerhard Simonsohn on the situation of scientists and the fate of prosecuted researchers 1933-1945. They are published at ECHO.
“Der Tagesspiegel” reports on a paneldiscussion with Jürgen Renn, director at the MPIWG, and Hermann Parzinger, President of the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, on “Kulturschätze für alle.”
Stefanie Klamm (doctoral fellow at the MPIWG between 2006 and 2011) and Nils Güttler, doctoral fellow at the MPIWG between 2008 and 2011, have jointly received this year's “Förderpreis” of the DGGMNT.
New Call for Applications for the Sound Studies Winter School “Sound Signatures” in Amsterdam that is co-organized by the MPIWG (deadline Oct. 1, 2013).
Yulia Frumer, postdoctoral fellow at the MPIWG, received the "Honorable Mention" by the DHST at the 24th International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine for her dissertation.
Fabian Krämer, former predoctoral scholar at the MPIWG, has received the DHST Young Scholar's Prize at the 24th International Congress for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine for his Dissertation.
Viktoria Tkaczyk, Dilthey Fellowship Research Group Leader at the MPIWG, has become a member of the "Junge Akademie" of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences (BBAW).
Dagmar Schäfer, professor for Chinese Studies at the University of Manchester, will be the new director of Department III at the MPIWG from August 1, 2013.
