Three Cultures Forum
Seit 2018 organisiert das Wissenschaftskolleg die Veranstaltungsreihe Three Cultures Forum. Der Titel ist von Wolf Lepenies' Buch Die drei Kulturen inspiriert, das die Ausdifferenzierung der Wissenschaften im 19. Jahrhundert zum Thema hat. Das Format richtet sich ausschließlich an die Fellows des jeweiligen Jahrgangs und hat das Ziel, den Austausch zwischen den Natur-, Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften zu befördern. Im Gespräch zwischen Vertretern verschiedener Disziplinen werden zentrale wissenschaftliche Konzepte, Fragen und Probleme diskutiert, um das Bewusstsein für die Vielfalt und Differenzen fachspezifischer Perspektiven, aber auch für überraschende Affinitäten zu schärfen.
2018/2019 "Sci HumForum"
- 20.9.2018: Evolution! Interdisciplinary Gathering around Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859)
- 11.10.2018: What We Mean When We Say "Evolution"… Comments on the Concept from the Perspective of Twelve Different Disciplines
- 29.11.2018: Exploring "Cultural Evolution"
- 17.1.2019: Struggling with Narrative: Evolution and Beyond
- 14.2.2019: The Evolution of Genre
- 1.4.2019: The Evolution of (Non-)violence: Discussing Steven Pinker’s Interpretation of Human History
- 11.6.2019: Why Should a Contemporary Biologist Read History of Science? Why Should a Historian of Science Read Contemporary Biology?
2019/2020 "Fruitful Frictions Forum"
- 24.10.2019: Revisiting a Classic: “Between Literature and Science: The Rise of Sociology” by Wolf Lepenies
- 27.11.2019: Context, Frame, Environment
- 5.12.2019: Sex, Gender and Sexuality
- 16.1.2020: Humans on Humans: How to Conceptualize and Regulate Good Research Practices
- 5.3.2020: “Sokal Reloaded”: On Hoaxes and What Can(’t) Be Learned from Them
2020/2021
- 12.11.2020: What Is Data?
- 2.12.2020: Competition and Rivalry: What Is Won, What Is Lost?
- 14.1.2021: Is Religion an Evolutionary Adaptation or a Spandrel?
- 24.2.2021: Genre, Species, (Ideal)type: On Categorization and the Challenge of Change
- 18.3.2021: Turning a Blind Eye? On Exceptions, Anomalies, and Outliers
- 21.4.2021: Systematizing "Race": Practices and Theories in an Emerging Modern World
- 12.5.2021: “Race” as a Category of Analysis? Debates in Human, Social, and Natural Sciences
2021/2022
- 18.11.2021: Living with Diversities
- 9.12.2021: Fourty-Two: On the Difficult Art of Formulating Meaningful Answers
- 10.3.2022: Cheating and Tweeting
- 30.3.2022: Narrating Nature: Podcasts as a Medium
- 11.5.2022: Reality
2022/2023
- 3.11.2022: The Promise and Perils of Metaphors
- 14.12.2022: Does the Gingko Tree have a Gender?
- 25.1.2023: Why (and under which conditions) is Inequality a problem? |
- 9.2.2023: What Makes for a Bad Rule?
- 20.4.2023: More Than a Thousand Words? The Power and Pitfalls of Visualisation
- 15.6.2023: At a Glance: Intuition in Research and Art