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The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge

In the summer of 1971, an eleven-year-old boy in Gothenburg, Sweden, wrote a letter to the pioneering environmentalist Hans Palmstierna. The boy had recently read a report on the environment in a youth magazine and was shocked. “Is our little Tellus really in such bad shape?,” he asked, adding that it was terrible that there … Continue reading The Environmental Turn in Postwar Sweden: A New History of Knowledge

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German Medieval Studies and the Arab World: Overcoming Disciplinary and Epistemic Boundaries within the Humanities

By Jenny Rahel Oesterle (History, University of Regensburg, Germany). I am a medievalist, specialized in the history of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Middle East. I have worked and received training at several universities throughout my career and am currently teaching at the University of Regensburg.

Online event: Aby Warburg und die US-Amerikanische Anthropologie

27th October 2021, 19:00 (CEST)


An online lecture (hosted by MARKK, Museum am Rothenbaum – Kulturen und Künste der Welt) by our Bilderfahrzeuge Research Associate Matthew Vollgraff as part of the events surrounding the exhibition “Aby Warburg. Bilderatlas Mnemosyne. Das Original” at Sammlung Falckenberg / Deichtorhallen Hamburg.

More information and link to Zoom on the
MARKK website.

Podiumsdiskussion: “Transnationales wissenschaftliches Arbeiten im Zeichen des Klimaschutzes”

Transnationales wissenschaftliches Arbeiten gehört nicht nur für die Institute der Max Weber Stiftung und für das Centre Marc Bloch zum Alltag. Recherchen im Ausland und grenzüberschreitender wissenschaftlicher Austausch sind insgesamt aus deutschen Forschungseinrichtungen und akademischen Karrieren nicht mehr wegzudenken.

Outside Looking in: On Teaching Art History from the ‘Margins’

By Hala Auji (Art History, American University of Beirut, Lebanon). What does it mean to teach art history, a discipline still rooted in eighteenth-century European Enlightenment ideals, in present-day Lebanon? As an art historian of the Middle East living and working in Beirut, teaching courses on the region has proven to be more challenging than one might imagine.

Humanities in Germany: Sciences Among Sciences

By Sabine Behrenbeck (Head of Department for Higher Education, German Council for Science and Humanities, Germany). There are many common problems and complaints regarding the humanities in anglophone nations and Germany, but there is also one important difference: In Germany the disciplines dealing with culture and language, religion and history are “sciences among sciences” (Wissenschaften unter Wissenschaften).