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    Episode 10: Times of Transience with Noa Hegesh and Keith Knapp

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    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes administered by the Max Planck Society. It is dedicated to the study of the history of science and aims to understand scientific thinking and practice as historical phenomena. Researchers pursue a historical epistemology in their studies of how new categories of thought, proof, and experience have emerged.

 

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Members of Research Group “China in the Global System of Science” featured in Science Business

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Janina Wellmann's book Biological Motion: A History of Life reviewed in FAZ

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Region, Practice, and Genre: Putting Knowledge to Use in the History of Science in South Asia. "Regionality of Knowledge"

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Lecture: "Feministische Kämpfe um Mieten, Heim- und Hausarbeit"

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Laboratory for Oral History and Experimental Media Series: Animated Archive

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Region, Practice, and Genre: Putting Knowledge to Use in the History of Science in South Asia. "Practical Knowledge and Knowledgeable Practice"

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