communication changing in the context of digitization? What can science, politics and society contribute to ensuring the quality of science communication? In modern societies, the findings of science are [...] its quality. The Interdisciplinary Research Group (IAG) "Implications of digitization for the quality of science communication" is addressing these developments and aims at answering the following questions: [...] changing under the conditions of digitization? What quality requirements can be placed on them? What implications does this have for science, politics, media and society? The objective of the IAG is to provide

Board The Board of the Academy supports the President in fulfilling his duties and advises him on current business. It prepares the meetings of the Council and the Assembly and sets up committees, for [...] Kuhlmann © Foto: Ilya Lipkin Secretary of the Class of Humanities Eva Geulen © privat Secretary of the Class of Social Sciences Gerhard Wagner © privat Secretary of the Class of Mathematics and Natural Sciences [...] for example to prepare the budget resolutions of the Assembly and to award prizes, scholarships and medals. © Pablo Castagnola President Christoph Markschies © Oliver Möst Vice-President Julia Fischer ©

An event of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science's long-term project „Friedrich Schleiermacher in Berlin 1808–1834“ (Zentrum „ Preußen – Berlin“) in cooperation with the Center for Modern Greece of Freie Universität Berlin in context of the Viaggio da Berlino a Zante project.

solutions for the challenges of urban health. Over 4.4 billion people worldwide live in urban areas: The urban population is expected to grow to 6.7 billion by 2050, accounting for 70 per cent of the world's [...] develop strategies for the future well-being and health of residents that take into account people’s differing needs. As part of the project, the International Urban Health Summit will take place from 9 to [...] together to engage in dialogue. The aim is to discuss together how the global network of national science academies can contribute to developing and implementing solutions to the challenges of urban health

bridging the Enlightenment, and the Neoclassical and Romantic movements. As a schoolteacher at the Gymnasium zum Grauen Kloster in Berlin and as a member of both Berlin Academies (the Academy of the Arts and [...] This research office is the archive and central editorial office of the first critical edition with commentary of the complete works of Karl Philipp Moritz (1756–1793). Karl Philipp Moritz is a key figure [...] and the Academy of Sciences), he produced an original and varied oeuvre that includes both literary works and theoretical writings on aesthetics, pedagogy, psychology, linguistics and the study of the ancient

Understanding how our sensory apparatus generates percepts and coherent experiences of the world has been an outstanding quest of centuries.

Die Paul B. Baltes-Lecture geht auf eine gemeinsame Initiative der Psychologie-Institute in Berlin und Potsdam zurück (Freie Universität, Humboldt-Universität, Technische Universität, Universität Potsdam, Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung). Sie ehrt Paul B. Baltes, den ehemaligen Direktor am Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung in Berlin, für seine herausragenden Beiträge zur Psychologie der Lebensspanne sowie für seine Verdienste um die psychologische Forschung im Berlin-Potsdamer Raum.

project is to bring to light the full significance of this key figure in the discourses of scholarship, cultural history and art history. This, the first-ever study of the whole correspondence of this art [...] cultural politics, offers material on the organisation and politics of scholarship, permits detailed insights into the practices of academic administration, reflects upon the scholarly and artistic exchanges [...] exchanges between Rome and Berlin and is at the same time a mirror of urban life in the metropolis Berlin in the period of change around 1800. Hirt had a decisive influence on Prussian cultural politics over a

International Conference organised by the Collaborative Research Center “Episteme in Motion” (FU Berlin) in collaboration with the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities.

Seals (Sumerian: kišib) and their impressions on clay form the oldest and most extensive group of images that have survived from what is now known as the Middle East or West Asia. The sealing of containers and doors, contracts and letters played an important role in the lives of people in Mesopotamia and its neighboring regions — today mostly Iraq, Syria, Iran, and Turkey —, especially from the fourth to the first millennium BCE. The miniature depictions and inscriptions engraved on seals allow detailed insights into ancient networks of social, political, economic, religious, and artistic interaction, as well as the transmission of cultural knowledge, evolving forms of visual communication, and shifting ideologies.