• Swirls of Colours

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    Institute's Colloquium 2024-25: History of Science in Public

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    Science Social

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

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  • pink and blue logo of the Into the Kn/Own podcast

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    Knowledge Ownership Explored

    Into the Kn/own/

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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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    No. 85

    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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Berlin’s History of Knowledge course list (KVV) for winter semester 2024/25 has been published online

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Roberto Lalli and Jaume Navarro in Nature article reflecting on science and peace

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Lorraine Daston honored with the 2024 Balzan Prize for History of Modern and Contemporary Science

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Events

Fabricated Natures: Stories from the Bio-Material Archive

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Practicing Learning from Heaven as a Form of Life: The Case of Liu Ning 劉凝

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Cosmology in a Living World: Knowledge Regarding Environment and Life in Late Imperial China

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At Arm’s Lengths: Octopus Consciousness as a Scientific and Legal Artifact

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