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Social learning is widespread in animals. It reaches a zenith in the unique cumulative culture of humans. Although social learning is a potentially cheap way of acquiring information, it comes with certain pitfalls. In the lecture evidence for model-based learning biases in young children and infants will be provided, including a precocious sensitivity to the trustworthiness of speakers.

Board The Society of Friends of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities was set up on the 16th of December 1993. Its bye-laws define its task as intellectually and materially supporting [...] supporting the Academy founded in the tradition of the Prussian Academy of Sciences and assisting it in fulfilling its responsibilities. Board Friede Springer, Chair Prof. Dr. Joachim Treusch, acting Chair Prof

Today it is common to think of race and racism as originating in modernity, and especially in European colonization of the “New” world. But the word race itself was first applied to humans in medieval Spain, as a way of stigmatizing converts to Christianity from Judaism or Islam and their descendants.

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Naturwissenschaftsgestützte Zugänge zur Vergangenheit, besonders Genetic History / the study of history with the methods of the natural sciences, esp. Genetic History Migration und städtische Demographie im [...] Migration and Urban Demographics in the Berlin-Brandenburg Area during the High Middle Ages(aDNA-Research Project) Sektion " Die Herausforderung der Genetic History " (The Challenge of Genetic History), Deutscher [...] tes zum Regierungsbezirk Mittelfranken / currently preparing a catalogue of charters from the archives of the Nuremberg region sowie Recherchen für ein zukünftiges Regestenheft zu in Italien liegenden

Voices on both sides of the Atlantic claim that “our democracy” is under threat. But what does that actually mean—and who gets to claim ownership of “our” democracy? If it belongs to everyone, how can democracy be used as a badge of identity by one side against another? When populist parties win elections, does that still count as “our” democracy?

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Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. Antike Bau- und Bildwerke in der Renaissance: der Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. Zur Präsentation Census [...] Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. Antike Bau- und Bildwerke in der Renaissance: der Census of Antique Works of Art and Architecture Known in the Renaissance. Zur Präsentation

30 Uhr Barbara Roggema (Rom) Arabic Christian Polemic Against Islam and the Development of the Dogma of the Inimitability of the Qur‘an 16.00 Uhr Karl Pinggéra (Marburg) Konfessionelle Rivalitäten in der [...] 2008 09.00 Uhr Johannes Pahlitzsch (Mainz) Mamluk Documents as a Source for the History of the Melkites. The Archives of the Greek Orthodox Patriarchates of Jerusalem and Alexandria 9.30 Uhr Firas Krimsti [...] Adoption and Interpretation: The Case of Quranic ‘Allah’ and ‘Furqan’ Kaffeepause 12.00 Uhr Bas ter Haar Romeny (Leiden) Syriac Orthodox Exegesis as a Historical Source for the Late Antique and Early Islamic