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    Institute's Colloquium 2023–24

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    Let’s Talk about Gender!

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  • Photograph of Tilli Tansey, Lesley Rees, Howard Morris, and John Hughes at the Witness Seminar “Endogenous Opiates” held by the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group

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    Commoning Biomedicine: An Open Source Network for Oral Histories Online

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

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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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Anna Lisa Ahlers quoted in article in Nature on China's view to increase its influence in global science

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Plants from Pyramids: Biogeography, Climate, and How to Write Cultural History

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Natural Science (Chemical-Technological and Mineralogical-Gemological) Knowledge in Georgian and Eastern Manuscripts Preserved in the Depositories of Georgia

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Natural Science Knowledge (Chemical-Technological and Mineralogical-Gemological) in Georgian and Eastern Manuscripts

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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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