Die Ernst Mayr Lecture ist eine von der BBAW und dem Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin gestiftete Vorlesungsreihe auf dem Gebiet der Biowissenschaften. Mit der Vorlesung soll die Entwicklung des biologischen Denkens von führenden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern verschiedener Disziplinen einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit vermittelt werden. Die Reihe bezieht sich damit auf eines der Hauptwerke des Ornithologen und Evolutionsbiologen Ernst Mayr (1904 – 2005), „The Growth of Biological Thought“.

Drawing upon caricatures about ancient slave traders, early Christian writers portray Marcion as a textual pirate and mutilator of scripture.

cs in the Berlin-Brandenburg Area during the High Middle Ages (MUD) Today‘s federated state of Brandenburg and the city-state of Berlin are located between two rivers, the (middle) Elbe and the Oder. Until [...] Until the 12th century, the area was inhabited by a population with a Slavic culture and a non-christian religion. Modern scholarship designates them as the „Elbe Slavs“. Until the end of the 13th century [...] century, the region underwent a major transformation and became the centre of a predominant German-language and Christian dominion, the Margraviate of Brandenburg. However, there are hardly any reliable written

The evaluation and review of research and scholarship is a central activity of research-performing organisations, scientific institutions, and research funding organisations, as well as researchers.

Under the auspices of His Excellency Prof. Dr. Khaled Abdel Ghaffar, Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research of the Arab Republic of Egypt, AGYA and ASRT officially open the AGYA Regional Office in Cairo with a joint international conference on 'Women Empowerment in Science, Technology and Innovation (WE-STI 2018)' on 25 October 2018 at Al-Salam Theater in Cairo.

2024, the three-day conference “Reclaiming Europe” opened at 100cznia in Gdańsk, organized by the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Junge Akademie, and other partners. In the spirit [...] making it an inspiring evening for all. The Siemens Arts Program proudly curated the artistic part of this public opening event. Watch the highlights and experience the vibrant atmosphere of this remarkable [...] spirit of democracy, the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra inaugurated the conference with a powerful concert at the historic Gdańsk shipyards — a symbol of freedom and resilience. Over 300 guests attended, making

In his lecture Parviz Salmani will give an introduction into an Iranian reference publication, the Encyclopaedia of the World of Islam (EWI). It is being produced by researchers of the Encyclopaedia Islamica Foundation (Tehran) founded in 1983. So far twenty volumes in Persian have appeared (letter bâʾ to letter râ’), encompassing all disciplines of Islamic scholarship, including Qur'an, Hadith, jurisprudence, mysticism, philosophy, literature, and arts.

and, if the corpus is not already parsed, a set of grammatical relations for the language, described as regular expressions over part-of-speech tags, which we then use to parse the corpus within the tool [...] al behaviour. They were first used in the production of the Macmillan English Dictionary. At that point, they only existed for English. Now, we have developed the Sketch Engine, a tool which takes as input [...] differences, which specify similarities and differences between near-synonyms. I shall describe the system, in the context of earlier corpus tools, and discuss future prospects.

recording a speaker of the Durvud dialect of Oirat, spoken in Western Mongolia The ELDP is a funding program to document and preserve endangered languages in a digital archive. The Endangered Languages [...] recordings. These are archived in the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) and made available free of charge to language communities, scholars, and the public worldwide. The archive contains unique recordings [...] Documentation Programme (ELDP) promotes the digital documentation and preservation of endangered languages worldwide. Each year, the program provides grants to approximately 30 to 40 speakers and early

Prize Prize of the Academy – donated by the Monika Kutzner Foundation Engineering Science Prize of the Academy Walter de Gruyter Prize of the Academy Prize of the Academy – donated by the Peregrinus Foundation [...] achievements in the area of cancer research. The prizewinners should be able to be regarded as young, relative to their achievements. The prize is conferred at the ceremonial session on the Academy’s Einstein [...] Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities – donated by the Monika Kutzner Foundation for the Advancement of Cancer Research The award includes prize money of 10,000 Euros and is