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The Word in the World

The last century devoted considerable critical attention to questions of how language relates to the world and reached pessimistic views in both direc
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Ein Pilz, die Erde und das Kapital

Eine Rezension des Buches von Anne Lowenhaupt Tsing – Der Pilz am Ende der Welt: Über das Leben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus?

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Ein Pilz, die Erde und das Kapital

A review on the book by Anne Lowenhaupt Tsing—Der Pilz am Ende der Welt: Über das Leben in den Ruinen des Kapitalismus?

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Teresa Hollerbach (2018)

The weighing chair of Sanctorius Sanctorius : a replica

Hollerbach, T. (2018). The weighing chair of Sanctorius Sanctorius: a replica. NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Wissenschaften, Technik und Medizin, 26(2), 121-149. doi:10.1007/s00048-018-0193-z.

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Mit Fakten gegen das Bauchgefühl

Lorraine Daston, Direktorin am MPIWG, wird der Dan-David-Preis verliehen.

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Mit Fakten gegen das Bauchgefühl

Lorraine Daston, Director at the MPIWG, is awarded the Dan David Prize

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Thomas Turnbull (2018)

Simulating the global environment : the British Government’s response to 'The Limits to Growth'

Turnbull, T. (2018). Simulating the global environment: the British Government’s response to 'The Limits to Growth'. In J. Agar, & J. Ward (Eds.), Histories of technology, the environment and modern Britain (pp. 271-299). London: UCL Press.

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The Religious Polemics of the Muslims of Late Medieval Christian Iberia: Identity and Religious Authority in Mudejar Islam

Commonly portrayed as communities in cultural and religious decay, Mònica Colominas convincingly proves that the discourses against the Christians and the Jews in Mudejar treatises provided authoritative frameworks of Islamic normativity which helped to legitimize the residence of their communities in the Christian territories.
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Making Useful Knowledge: British Naturalists in Colonial India, 1784–1820

This project explores the natural knowledge-making strategies of British colonial savants in early modern India including the noted oriental
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Workshop | Jun 25-Jun 26, 2018  |  10:00 to 16:50

The Safavid Multi-Text-Manuscript 1984.463 (Harvard University, Sackler Museum)—its Content and Context

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