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The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is a research institute of the Max Planck Society (MPG) with currently two research departments, several independent research groups, and a graduate school. At the MPIWG, around 150 scholars from all over the world investigate the sciences past and present, working together on a collective, collaborative, and transdisciplinary basis. The MPIWG is renowned worldwide as a hub for reflection on the role of the sciences in politics and society. It is located in southwestern Berlin, close to the campus of the Free University Berlin and other research institutions.

Researchers in the Department “Knowledge Systems and Collective Life,” led by Prof. Dr. Etienne Benson, use historical and ethnographic methods to study the relationship between knowledge systems and forms of collective life in the past and present...