Activities

• • Workshop „Wissenschaft in der Debatte“

    On the role of the humanities, social sciences and law in political debates. What are the functions and consequences of their involvement?

    Topics:

    • Event
    • politics
    • science communication
    • media

    Starts on

    07.10.23

    Event access: Internal

    Berlin

  • Workshop "Mental Images in the Middle Ages and Neuroscience - New Perspectives"

    As part of the project "Lucid Dreaming, Now and Then", medievalist Racha Kirakosian (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study) is organising an internal workshop on "Mental Images in the Middle Ages and Neuroscience - New Perspectives".

    The ability to see images before "the inner eye" was theoretically discussed in scholastic writings in the Middle Ages as well as critically presented in literary texts. Mental images such as visions, daydreams and sleep dreams played an important role in epistemological processes, religious experiences and artistic arguments for the question of finding and representing truth. Despite their importance for the historical understanding of the human brain, however, medieval concepts of "inner vision" remain under-researched. Can current findings from the neurosciences help to open up the medieval sources in a new way? And, conversely, can ideas from the Middle Ages inspire innovative experiments in the field of neuropsychology? The Hamburg workshop will address these questions by bringing together scientists from the relevant fields for an interdisciplinary discussion.

    Topics:

    • Event
    • dialogue
    • psychology
    • language

    Starts on

    23.06.22

    Event access: Internal

    Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study

  • Change of roles

    We all change roles in different life situations. This is not different in science, as the Covid-19 situation shows particularly clearly with regard to the role of scientists, for example as communicators and advisors of politicians. But role changes are also omnipresent as an object of science. Issue 27 of JAM approaches the topic from different perspectives.

    Topics:

    • Magazine
    • science communication
    • music
    • psychology

    Astrid Eichhorn, Michael Saliba, Erik Schilling

    Berlin 2020