Maps belong to the oldest forms of human communication and thus represent an important historical record of space. Yet, maps are much more than just a visual presentation of a territory during a certain period of time, but a reflection on historical, political, religious and cultural contexts in which they were compiled.

How should societies deal with groundbreaking new technologies? Is the challenge about paying enough attention to potential risks, but ensuring we don’t miss out on some inevitable ‘next big thing’? Or are the dilemmas about deeper questions of choice: how to steer innovation in the most appropriate of directions?

Genereller Nutzungsdruck und Klimaextreme fordern die Anpassungsfähigkeit historischer Gärten zunehmend heraus. Der Vergleich mit englischen und südeuropäischen Gärten ist der Schwerpunkt des Workshops, bei dem sich internationale Denkmalpfleger, Kunsthistoriker und Naturwissenschaftler zu den Problemen im Umgang mit Klimawandel und Nutzungsdruck und möglichen Lösungsansätzen austauschen werden.

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The Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities (AGYA) is delighted to announce its Call for Membership Applications 2025, marking the beginning of its new funding by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). Application deadline: 10 April 2025

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The lecture begins with an exploration of some of the spatial and temporal complexities that are involved in a traditional form of impagination in the Western tradition in which a centrally situated text [...] consider the development in modes of impagination from earlier ancient Greek and Roman layouts on papyrus and in rolls to late ancient ones on parchment and in codices, and asks to what extent the specific [...] specific nature of the materiality of these bearers of the texts and paratexts might have played a decisive role in this development. Please register until 19.09. at: www2.bbaw.de/anmeldung-paratext Introduction

biology in the twentieth century. A key component of the synthesis was the Darwinian question of how species are formed. His answer, now known as the allopatric model of speciation, has formed the framework [...] our own study of the adaptive radiation of Darwin´s finches in the Galápagos archipelago. Our main goal has been to use currently observable evolutionary change to throw light on the processes that must [...] must have occurred in the past, resulting in 14 species all derived from a common ancestor. The finches are almost ideal for this purpose. They diversified rapidly and recently in the last two-three million

From the language maps of Gottfried Hensel’s “Europa Polyglotta” (1741) and Julius Klaproth’s “Asia Polyglotta” (1823) to Oscar Drude’s global vegetational maps of the 1880s, German scholars made distribution maps on new subjects for new analytical ends.

Since the 16th century, South American biodiversity has been cataloged, investigated, and economically exploited. Over the centuries, many naturalists have contributed to the knowledge of the region’s [...] 82000 species. One of these naturalists was Alexander von Humboldt, who, alongside the botanist Aimé Bonpland, traveled to the Americas on a 5-year voyage and collected more than 6000 plant species. Works such [...] research group has gathered ethnobotanical information to understand the relationship between plants, people, and biodiversity. Additionally, the research group focuses on other naturalists and their works, including

As is well-known, Coptic texts can be divided into stress groups (called "bound groups" by Layton 2004), each of which consists of a noun or verb root, preceded by a series of unstressed, proclitic elements. Calling these elements "prefixes" would result in an extremely strange inflectional system (where nouns can be inflected for tense of the clause, for gender of the relative clause they belong to, or even for predicative action, because some of the proclitics are verbs). Thus, Coptic is a particularly well-suited language to illustrate the fact that "words" are much like "letters" – useful elements for writing, but with no role in linguistic analysis.