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Köpfe und Ideen 2010
Content
Moral Progress?
The New York sociologist Steven Lukes is writing a philosophical-sociological inquiry into morality and must grapple with the question of moral progress
Interview: Ralf Grötker
The Tumult About Turbulence
The French physicist Marie Farge is trying to come to grips with the problem of turbulence through the application of wavelet theory
by Claus Pias
Can Ants Count ... Compute ... Calculate ... ?
The biologist and historian of science Manfred Laubichler is tracing the mechanisms entailed in the animal kingdom’s division of labor
by Julia Voss
The Dyke Thinker
An encounter with the art historian and image-scholar Horst Bredekamp, whose work oscillates between the vita contemplativa
of ritual retreat and the vita activa of institutional engagement
by Alexander Cammann
"Something with Media . . ."
Can reflection on the media be institutionalized?
Claus Pias asks himself what is to become of media studies
Interview: Jürgen Kaube
The Quantum Physics Gang
Jens Eisert, Tobias Osborne and Ulrich Schollwöck are investigating the secrets of complex quantum systems
by Rainer Scharf
Letter from Berlin
Berlin Winter
by Martin Mosebach
- Credits
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Köpfe und Ideen 2009
Content
- Nachtviole, Kant und vier Sorten Englisch
Der Evolutionsbiologe James Mallet und der Historiker Ibrahima Thioub (Fellows 2008/2009): ein Doppelportrait
von Lothar Müller - Über Land mit Lorraine Daston
Die amerikanische Wissenschaftshistorikerin in Berlin (Permanent Fellow, Fellow 1987/1988) steuert gern neue Aussichtsplattformen an, um in die Wissenschaft zurückzublicken
von Julia Voss - Hear-Stear-Go
The focus group "Auditory and Visual Scene Analysis" (Fellows 2008/2009) is looking for clues amongst the behavior of bats and other specialized animals
by Carl Gierstorfer - Keine Angst vor Kräften der Geschichte
Dipesh Chakrabarty (Fellow 2008/2009) und der Kampf der "Subaltern Studies" für eine Geschichtsschreibung, in der die Armen und Unterdrückten die Hauptrolle spielen
Interview: Ralf Grötker - Der Kalligraph
Toshio Hosokawas (Fellow 2008/2009 und 2006/2007) Musik spürt die Kostbarkeit des einzelnen Tons nach
von Claus Spahn - Früchte des Fellowdaseins
Der Jurist Alain Supiot (Fellow 1997/1998) war vor zwölf Jahren Fellow am Wissenschaftskolleg. Sein Aufenthalt in Berlin hat ihn dazu angeregt, selbst ein Institute for Advanced Study zu gründen
von Ralf Grötker - Letter from Berlin
Vier Brieffragmente
von Juri Andruchowytsch (Fellow 2008/2009) - Bildnachweise
- Impressum
Köpfe und Ideen 2008
Content
- Goebbels' Things
The composer and director Heiner Goebbels (Fellow 2007/2008) is an oscillograph of contemporary culture
by Claus Spahn - Inequality: Causes and Consequences
The American political scientist Ronald Rogowski (Fellow 2007/2008) is in search of a consistent explanation of social inequality
by Ralf Grötker - The Shaman
Stephen Greenblatt, the New Historicism and the Mobility of Culture
by Florian Welle - A Mobility Studies Manifesto
by Stephen Greenblatt - What Comes after the State?
The focus group "Constitution Beyond the Nation State" (Fellows 2007/2008) thinks about democracy in the post-state world
Interview: Ralf Grötker - Ask Doctor Darwin
The focus group "Evolution and Medicine" (Fellows 2007/2008) wants to intensify collaborations between biologists and physicians
by Carl Gierstorfer - Er Worked for the British and Felt with the Indians
The literary historian Meenakshi Mukherjee (Fellow 2007/2008) writes a biography of the polymath R.C. Dutt
by Tobias Haberl - Letter from Berlin:
Letters Written and Not Written
by Antjie Krog - Masthead
Köpfe und Ideen 2007
Content
- Why Religion? A Plea for an Ambivalent Understanding
The Theologian Friedrich Wilhelm Graf (Fellow 2006/2007) leads the Focus Group "Religious Transformation Processes in the Present"
Interview with Ralf Grötker - A Matter of Circuitry
Beatrice Longuenesse and Frank Rösler (Fellows 2006/2007) attempt to overcome the philosophical/neuroscientific dualism
by Ralf Grötker - „I am Speaking about Normality.“
‚Resistance through culture’ was the slogan of Romanian intellectuals before 1989. Then many of them found themselves unexpectedly holding political office. How is this compatible? - A visit with the former Foreign Minister, founder of the New Europe college, and journalist Andrei Plesu (Permanent Fellow)
by Ralf Grötker - Unwanted Guests?
The Focus Group „Evolutionary Immunology“ is rethinking the realtionship between hosts and parasites
by Tobias Haberl - Fact and Fiction
The jurist Christoph Möllers (Fellow 2006/2007) compares legal theory with aestetic theory
by Florian Welle - „If We Can't Reach the Stars, We at Least Have the Starlight.“
The lebanese Poet Fuad Rifka (Fellow 2006/2007) translates German poetry of the twentieth century.
by Florian Welle - Letter from Berlin: Deflections.
A year at the Wissenschaftskolleg is very pleasant. But how much does the unique scholarly environment of the Wissenschaftskolleg deflect one's intellectual history?
by Steven A. Frank - Masthead
Köpfe und Ideen 2006
Content
- Network or Competition: How does Capitalism Tick?
The economic sociologist Paul Windolf (Fellow 2005/2006) is exploring the ways in which businesses and branches of industry are linked with one another
by Ralf Grötker - The Promise of Treatment
Robert A. Aronowitz (Fellow 2005/2006), internist and medical historian, is working on a book entitled Unnatural History: Breast Cancer, Risk, and American Society
Interview with Ralf Grötker - Model Footwork
Ansgar Büschges, Volker Dürr, Örjan Ekeberg und Keir Pearson ( Fellows 2001/2002) simulate the neuronal processes in the muscoloskeletal system of cats and stick insects
by Sonja Asal - Urban Spaces as Social Surfaces
Monika Wagner (Fellow 2005/2006) researches the tactility and opticity of urban spaces
by Ralf Grötker - On the Ariadnean thread of the Cataglyphis Ants
Rüdiger Wehner is a pioneer in the field of theoretical biology whose research regularly takes him from his Zurich laboratory into the deserts of North Africa
by Sonja Asal - SSecular Modernity? Revising a Self-Perception
José Casanova, Hans Joas, Astrid Reuter und Charles Taylor (Fellows 2005/2006) investigate the different forms of religion in modern societies
by Sonja Asal - Letter from Berlin:
How it took 175 years to get from Mitte to Grunewald
Carla Hesse traces the steps of her great-great-grandparents through Berlin
by Carla Hesse - Masthead