IMPRS
Research Group

International Max Planck Research School "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities"

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Academic Coordinator, IMPRS

Sophie Schwarzmaier

The International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities” (IMPRS-KIR) opened at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in September 2022. The graduate school is a joint project of the MPIWG with Berlin’s Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität, and Technische Universität as part of the Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge.

 

About the IMPRS

The IMPRS website presents the School's research agenda, the doctoral projects, and its curriculum. The site also presents our latest news and details of those involved in the graduate school, including our doctoral students, Teaching Faculty, and the IMPRS Office team.

 

Applications

The latest Call for Applications for doctoral positions closed on January 15, 2026. There will be no further application rounds for the time being.

News & Press

Exhibition stand and several MPIWG scholars at this year's ESHS/HSS Joint Meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland 

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Retrospective: "Revisiting nineteenth-century photographic practices" workshop with Maximilian Zeitler

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Berlin’s History of Knowledge course list (KVV) for summer semester 2026 has been published online

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Events

Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge between Late Antiquity and Early Islam

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Research Directions in Premodern Agricultural and Food Knowledge

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Water and a Mamluk Basin in Use

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Doctoral Students of the IMPRS