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![Tray and samples of the textile cabinet in the Textielmuseum in Tilburg](https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/styles/newsletter_teaser_list_square/public/2023-02/Textielmuseum-cabinet-16.jpg?itok=3C2wcoNz)
Reading Group | Jul 26, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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The Use and Reuse of Paper in the Humanities
Paper is probably the most central working material of the humanities across history: Scholars have read from and written on paper, thought with paper
Science as Prophecy: Measuring Past and Future Climates
"Climate" defies easy definition. It is a malleable concept, one that historians have increasingly recognized is mediated by diverse cultural practice
Deep Time Labscapes: Exploring natural analogue studies in geology and glaciology
For human society, the Anthropocene is characterized by enormous gains in control, but also by dramatic losses of control. "Deep Time Labscapes" explo
Interpreting Eclipses in Byzantium: Knowledge Transfer from India to the Eastern Mediterranean (1000–1500)
The aim of this project is to identify and analyze visual representations and descriptions of eclipses and/or the lunar nodes from the Eastern Mediter
"It Is Madness, Downright Madness": The (Im)morality of Attempts to Measure the Universe
Numeracy, by which I mean counting, calculating, and measuring, was ubiquitous in Greek and Roman antiquity, it informed the production of account ins
Animal Mobilities
This project examines how scientific knowledge production has mobilized and is mobilized by animals and animality. We inquire into how animal movement
Working Group Participants, Susanne Bauer, Yubin Shen
![Tray and samples of the textile cabinet in the Textielmuseum in Tilburg](https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/styles/newsletter_teaser_list_square/public/2023-02/Textielmuseum-cabinet-16.jpg?itok=3C2wcoNz)
Reading Group | Sep 13, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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![Tray and samples of the textile cabinet in the Textielmuseum in Tilburg](https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/styles/newsletter_teaser_list_square/public/2023-02/Textielmuseum-cabinet-16.jpg?itok=3C2wcoNz)
Reading Group | Oct 10, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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![Tray and samples of the textile cabinet in the Textielmuseum in Tilburg](https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/sites/default/files/styles/newsletter_teaser_list_square/public/2023-02/Textielmuseum-cabinet-16.jpg?itok=3C2wcoNz)
Reading Group | Nov 16, 2023 | 16:00 to 17:30
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Dept. III
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