The Evolution of Knowledge - A Scientific Meeting in Honor of Jürgen Renn

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Opening session

Origins & Evolution of Knowledge

Science & Society

Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge

Institutional Organization of Knowledge

The Spread of Knowledge

Knowledge Evolution and The Anthropocene

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"Reflections in tranquillity” on the “Evolution of Knowledge”: Random remarks on “easy and not so easy” achievements and goals (in session "Institutional Organization of Knowledge")

Alphabets, dictionaries and grammars (in session "The Spread of Knowledge")

Book presentation “Einstein on Einstein”

Chair: Benjamin Steininger (in session "Origins & Evolution of Knowledge")

Chair: Elena Bougleux (in session "Knowledge Evolution and The Anthropocene")

Chair: Gabriel Motzkin (in session "Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge")

Chair: Jürgen Jost (in session "Science & Society")

Chair: Massimiliano Badino (in session "Institutional Organization of Knowledge")

Chair: Robert Schulmann (in session "Science & Society")

Chair:Gerd Grasshoff (in session "The Spread of Knowledge")

Closing Remarks (in session "Knowledge Evolution and The Anthropocene")

Combining physics and politics during the Cold War: The role of international scientific networks and institutions (in session "Institutional Organization of Knowledge")

Crises and the Anthropocene (in session "Knowledge Evolution and The Anthropocene")

Discussion (in session "Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge")

Discussion (in session "Science & Society")

Discussion (in session "Institutional Organization of Knowledge")

Discussion (in session "The Spread of Knowledge")

Discussion (in session "Origins & Evolution of Knowledge")

Discussion (in session "Knowledge Evolution and The Anthropocene")

Earth System science in political context (in session "Knowledge Evolution and The Anthropocene")

Engineering musical aesthetics: science, technology, and the trautonium" (in session "Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge")

Evening concert

Evening Lecture - Ten words on school and university - Nuccio Ordine

Geopraxis (in session "Science & Society")

How many climate zones? The spread of cosmographic knowledge in the early modern period (in session "The Spread of Knowledge")

Inheritance and innovation: casting technology and craft production of bronzes in Shang dynasty (16th BC-11th BC), China (in session "Origins & Evolution of Knowledge")

Mathematics as a tool: Galilei and Huygens on the hanging chain (in session "Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge")

Means and ends in the history of science (in session "Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge")

On cognitive artefacts (in session "Origins & Evolution of Knowledge")

Ottodix - Entanglement - Special concert

Re-orienting studies of knowledge dissemination in and from Islamicate societies (in session "The Spread of Knowledge")

Scale and information-processing thresholds in Holocene social evolution (in session "Science & Society")

Science and the industrial revolution (in session "Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge")

Speaker: José Montesinos (in session "The Spread of Knowledge")

Speaker: Ricarda Winkelmann/Manfred Laubichler (in session "Knowledge Evolution and The Anthropocene")

The tangled roots of the mathematics of the 17th-century Scientific Revolution (in session "Origins & Evolution of Knowledge")

The “Iron-eating bird” on the Silk Roads: the cross-cultural study of circulation of ostrich diet myths (in session "The Spread of Knowledge")

Theatre of science. Solving mathematical problems in early modern jesuit colleges (in session "Science & Society")

Two views of excellence in research, two views of zionist nation-building: pure mathematics at the Hebrew University, applied mathematics at the Weizmann Institute (in session "Modes and Material Conditions of Evolution of Knowledge")

What did Urban VIII and Galileo discuss during the “six long meetings” in 1624? (in session "Science & Society")

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7/16/25

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