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Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (but It’s All Interconnected)
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Science Social Special: There Is No One History of Science (but It’s All Interconnected)
MoreThe Social Side of a Scientific Breakthrough: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst, and the Discovery of Ammonia Synthesis 1830–1930
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Soziale Aspekte eines wissenschaftlichen Durchbruchs: Fritz Haber, Walther Nernst und die Entdeckung der Ammoniaksynthese 1830–1930
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At the Edge of Land and Ocean: Arctic Indigenous Peoples and Fish Skin
This project addresses multiple issues related to contemporary sustainable fashion practices, with approaches inspired by Arctic fish skin heritage, s
Lost People on the Ming Frontiers: Captivity and Labor Acquisition in Early Modern China
My project contributes a distinct community of labor to “Ability and Authority”: one that was created through cross-border captivity. This project wil
Reflections on the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
“Reflex” is an early physiological term that was initially used to separate involuntary, mechanical movements from those driven by will. During the fi
Thinking in Many Tongues
This working group and reading seminar, running over two years in 2016–17, brought together around a dozen historians and philologists with diverse ki
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Reading Seminar, 5 October 2016 Etymology , Participants, Wolfgang Behr
Lorraine Daston featured in an article in Tagesspiegel on the 100 most important academics in Berlin
Go To Article (German, Paywall)Reconstructing Rigor: An Inquiry into the Nature of Rigor and its Meta-Methodological Consequences for the Social Sciences
In the aftermath of the “replication crisis,” throughout the “science wars,” and in wider discussions on the rules of research and the responsibility