Events Music

IDEA Lectures with Ophelia Deroy
Shared Experiences: Does Art Create Common Ground?

Picture yourself at the Städel Museum, standing in front of Vermeer’s Geographer. Unsurpringly, you're not alone: Others stand nearby, quietly absorbing the same scene—the man deep in thought, the soft light spilling through the window, the delicate play with colors.

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1st Annual Conference on Aesthetic Development

Understanding Aesthetic Development
1st Annual Conference on Aesthetic Development on November 7, 2024

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The stage is set for the Frankfurt Alliance

At the Roßmarkt, the new science network invites you to a science festival full of amazement, questions, discussions and participation.

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Past Events

Music and Knowledge: Towards a Systematic Approach

Music and knowledge stand to each other in a complex relationship; an adequate view of it requires considerable conceptual work. s or modes of knowledge interact?

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Theatre of Memory

A Neuro-Acoustic Sound Network by Tim Otto Roth

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How Did You Do That? Developing Transcultural Music ll

Eleanna Pitsikaki and Peter Klohmann

Lecture Recital

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How Did You Do That? Developing Transcultural Music

Youssef Laktina and Johanna-Leonore Dahlhoff

Lecture Recital

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An Exploration of South Indian Rāga

Brindha Manickavasakan

Lecture Recital

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Movement to Sound, Sound to Movement

Rei Nakamura

Multimedia performance and panel discussion at ArtLab with Rei Nakamura

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IDEA Lecture with Tuomas Eerola
Two Tales of Music and Emotions: From the Confines of Controlled Lab Study to the Construction of Emotions in Context

This two-part talk presents a lab study about enjoyable aspects of sadness in music and then broadens the scope into a constructionist account of emotions.

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Über die Linie

Lucas Fels

Lecture Recital with discussion on the question of successful performance based on notation in contemporary music.

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Exhibition Opening: CONTACT ZONES — Murat Adash, Céline Berger, Syowia Kyambi

Exhibition of INHABIT Artists-in-Residence opens at the Museum Angewandte Kunst

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IDEA Lecture with Sandra Trehub: Musical Beginnings

This talk focuses on musicality in infancy, specifically on the skills that underlie our ability to perceive, appreciate, and produce music.

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Music & Eye-Tracking

What eye movements, pupil dilation, and blinking activity tell us about musical processing

A two-day conference organized by Elke B. Lange and Lauren K. Fink 
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Adriana Zekveld

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Public Lecture by Lydia Goehr, Columbia University, New York, USA

Errors, Mistakes, and Accidents: New and Old Keys to Analysis in Philosophy and the Arts

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Public Concert: Lucas Fels (Cello) and Nicola Hein (Electric Guitar, Electronics)

Lucas Fels (Cello) and Nicola Hein (Electric Guitar, Electronics)

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Feeling, Form, Mind: A Conference on the Thought of Susanne K. Langer

An interdisciplinary conference by the Susanne K. Langer Circle in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

The call for abstracts is now open, the deadline is February 6, 2022.

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Something in the Way You Move

A Scientific Dance Evening (With a Fun Experiment)

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The Concert as Experiment

Radialsystem, Berlin.
Research Group Investigates How Audiences React to Classical Music Concerts.

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The Concert as Experiment

Pierre-Boulez-Saal, Berlin.
Research Group Investigates How Audiences React to Classical Music Concerts

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Virtual IDEA Lecture with Aniruddh Patel:
Is music a kind of sound, or a kind of perceptual experience?

Music often has salient acoustic differences from spoken and environmental sounds, especially with respect to patterns of pitch and timing...

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Virtual IDEA Lectures with Patrick Savage:
Comparative Musicology: The Science of the World’s Music

What is music, and why did it evolve? How can we understand the unity and diversity found throughout the world’s music?

Scientific attempts to answer these questions through cross-cultural comparison stalled during the 20th century and have only recently begun to make a resurgence.

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Tag für die Literatur und die Musik

Schalten Sie ein zu unserem Live-Programm zu spannenden Forschungsthemen.

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Sneak Preview: The Classical Concert under Experiment

In 2022, a series of concerts  will take place in radialsystem and the Pierre Boulez Hall

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Online Discussion at APA 2020 Virtual: The Study of Aesthetic Experience

We are presenting a symposium at this year’s Virtual Convention of the American Psychological Association. You are invited to watch our talks online and to join us for some live scientific exchange with our discussant Ellen Winner.

Location: Zoom Meeting

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Virtual IDEA Lectures with Renee Timmers:
Process and product in ensemble performance: from embodied interaction to ensemble aesthetics

In performing together, musicians create a shared, coordinated performance. Such ensemble performances are established dynamically and interactively, as well as through constructing and polishing a distributed notion of what the end-product of the musical performance should sound like.

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Music in times of the COVID-19 pandemic: invitation to form a network of research projects

Virtual get-togethers (9 a.m. CEST and 4 p.m. CEST to allow researchers from around the globe to participate)

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IDEA lecture with Pamela Potter:
The Nazi „Antimodernist“ Aesthetic in Postwar Arts Scholarship

In her 2016 book, Art of Suppression: Confronting the Nazi Past in Histories of the Visual and Performing Arts, Pamela Potter identifies a wide gap between what research has revealed about cultural attitudes in Nazi Germany and what the general public persistently chooses to believe.

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Klassik in der Mittagspause

Zwei Forschungskonzerte im Rahmen der Studie „Experimentelle Konzertforschung“

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IDEA Lecture with Peter Keller:
Psychological and Social Foundations of Human Interaction Through Music

Making music in groups is a widespread human activity and a powerful medium for nonverbal communication, social bonding, and cultural transmission.
 

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4ESTHETICS? 4E/Situated Approaches to (Music) Aesthetics: Challenges and Perspectives

Workshop at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics
Frankfurt am Main, March 7 – 9, 2019

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IDEA Lecture with Raymond MacDonald:
The Art of Becoming: what is improvisation and why is it important

Improvisation is a defining feature of jazz music and a key component of jazz musicians’ musical identity. 

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IDEA Lecture with Daniel Müllensiefen
The development of musical talent: Empirical evidence, methodological challenges, and a new model.

The term talent can be problematic when used in the context of musical development because of its biased association with the nature / nurture debate. However, we suggest a new definition of musical talent that is not partisan to either side of that debate but lends itself to empirical investigations of individual differences in terms of speed and ease of musical learning.

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IDEA Lecture with Ram Mall
Conceptualizing intercultural aesthetics with special regard to Indian aesthetics

This paper wants to delineate the important concept of interculturality as clearly as possible. It therefore suggests an alternative way of conceptualizing hermeneutics, avoiding hermeneutics of total identity and of radical difference.

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Konzertstudie

Experimentelle Konzertforschung mit Hindemith-Streichquintett des Frankfurter Museumsorchesters

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IDEA Lecture with Michael McBeath
Empirical Ecologically-Based Aesthetics

I will review my research exploring ecologically-based patterns called Natural Regularities, and the related visual and auditory biases that help observers to rapidly and efficiently parse scenes into meaningful objects.

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Hessen forscht: Was löst Musik bei Ihnen aus?

Musikalisch begleitete Kurzvorträge unserer Wissenschaftler/-innen geben Einblick in unsere Forschung zur Wahrnehmnung von Musik.

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Audience research: Conversation concert with Stefan Litwin (piano)

On April 12th, the ArtLab of the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics will host pianist and composer Stefan Litwin for a research concert. Stefan Litwin, born in Mexico City in 1960, will explain and perform piano works by Beethoven, Schönberg and Stockhausen, amongst others. During the concert, the audience’s behavior will be recorded as part of the concert and audience research of the Department of Music at MPIEA.

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Workshop ‚Digital Modelling of Knowledge'

Matteo Valleriani und Florian Kräutli, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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IDEA lecture with Anne Danielsen
Timing and Sound in Musical Microrhythm: Theoretical, Aesthetic and Empirical Aspects

The first part of the lecture concerns the theoretical framework for analysis of musical microrhythm and addresses some important aesthetic aspects of groove-based music. The second part is a presentation of the first results of empirical research into the perceptual center of musical sounds from the TIME project at the University of Oslo. Ultimately, the lecture will address some challenges linked to research into micro features of rhythm.

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Forschungskonzert "Liederabend"

mit Rafael Bruck (Gesang) und Lea Fink (Klavier)

Es kommen zur Aufführung Gedichte von Eduard Mörike, Friedrich Schiller, Joseph von Eichendorff u. a. und Lieder von Hugo Wolf, Franz Schubert, Robert Schumann u. a.

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IDEA lecture mit Oliver Berli: Grenzüberschreitender Musikgeschmack. Symbolischer Konsum als Mittel der Distinktion und Gegenstand der Legitimation.

Unter dem Begriff der Distinktion verhandelt die Soziologie vielfältige Formen individueller wie kollektiver Besonderung.

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Forschungskonzert in Zusammenarbeit mit der Internationalen Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA)

Die Musiker der IEMA spielen

Toshi Ichiyanagi: Trio Interlink (1990)
David Fennessy: gut, hair, skin, air (2007)
Iannis Xenakis: Plektó (1993)

Am Dienstag, 12. September 2017, um 19.30 Uhr
im ArtLab des Max-Planck-Instituts für empirische Ästhetik
Grüneburgweg 14, 60322 Frankfurt

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Music & Eye-Tracking - What eye movements, pupil dilation, and blinking activity tell us about musical processing

A two-day conference organized by Elke B. Lange and Lauren K. Fink to bring together scholars at the intersection of music and eye-tracking research. August 17th-18th, 2017, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt, Germany

Keynote Speaker: Dr. Bruno Laeng, University of Oslo, Norway

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IDEA lecture: Daniel Müllensiefen
The psychology of aesthetic experience from three angles: Stimulus features, psychometrics and behavioral economics

Describing aesthetics experiences with scientific models is a complex task, but there seems to be an emerging consensus that three main areas contribute to psychological experiences of aesthetic stimuli: 1) elements of the aesthetic object itself, 2) characteristics of the person, and 3) situational as well as contextual information. Taking music as an example domain we will demonstrate rigorous approaches that allow the construction of empirical models within each of the three areas. 1) We suggest that the comprehensive computational analysis of stimulus features of aesthetic objects can be employed to describe relationships with psychological responses (Jakubowski, Müllensiefen & Stewart, 2016; van Balen et al., 2015). In addition we will discuss new strategies going beyond mere feature analysis to gain a deeper understanding of how elements of the aesthetic object are causally linked to perceptual and cognitive responses. 2) For assessing characteristics of the individual we advocate the use of modern psychometric techniques such as item response theory, automatic item generation and adaptive testing (e.g. Harrison, Collins & Müllensiefen, 2017). Through examples we’ll show how ambiguous empirical results are often caused by fundamental measurement problems and by ignoring individual differences. 3) In addition, we’ll present experimental approaches (Anglada-Tort & Müllensiefen, 2017) inspired by paradigms from behavioral economics (Kahneman, 2011) that aim to assess the degree to which biases and heuristics introduced through the situational context affect human judgements of aesthetic stimuli.
The unifying conceptual bracket of these approaches is a thorough understanding of causality (Pearl, 2011) and its implementation in experimental and observational research. Finally, we’ll make sure the talk will be more fun than this abstract is able to convey!

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IDEA lecture mit Steffen Lepa: Die Rolle der Audiomedien für das Emotionserleben beim alltäglichen Musikhören

Musik wird heute im Alltag vorwiegend mit Hilfe von Audiomedien gehört. Diese sich wandelnden Technologien verändern seit über 100 Jahren, wie Musik klingt, wie sie in soziale Kontexte eingebettet werden kann und wie sich ihre Hörer dabei körperlich erfahren. Dennoch wird die Rolle der Audiomedien bei der Entstehung musikalischer Emotionen von der musikpsychologischen Forschung heute noch größtenteils ausgeklammert. Der Vortrag stellt dieser Forschungslücke eigene und fremde empirische Arbeiten transdisziplinärer Audiomedienforschung gegenüber, die versuchen, der spezifischen Rolle der Technologien für den emotionalen Musikgenuss auf die Spur zu kommen.

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IDEA-Lecture mit Ralf von Appen: Zur Ästhetik populärer Musik – Erfahren, Analysieren, Verstehen

IDEA-Lecture mit Ralf von Appen

Dr. Ralf von Appen ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikpädagogik der Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen. Seine Arbeitsschwerpunkte sind Geschichte, Theorie, Analyse und Ästhetik der populären Musik sowie Musikästhetik und Musikpsychologie.

Ausgewählte Publikationen:
Der Wert der Musik. Zur Ästhetik des Populären. (= texte zur populären Musik Bd. 4). Bielefeld: Transcript

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Forschungskonzert im ArtLab

Die Musiker der Internationalen Ensemble Modern Akademie (IEMA) spielen Ichiyanagi, Fennessy, Xenakis.

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Ständchen, Schlaflied oder Kriegsgeschrei?

Ein Vortrag von Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt | Moderation: Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. Volker Mosbrugger, Senckenberg Gesellschaft für Naturforschung, Frankfurt, und Goethe-Universität

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IDEA-Lecture mit Frank Hentschel:
Ausdruckstypen in der Orchestermusik des 19. Jahrhunderts

Die expressive Qualität von historischer Musik zu bestimmen, ist ein überaus schwieriges Unterfangen, weil sich kaum Zeugnisse ausfindig machen lassen, die die emotionale Erfahrung von Musik schildern. In dem Vortrag möchte ich ein geplantes Forschungsunternehmen vorstellen, das nach Wegen sucht, diese Schwierigkeit zu überwinden. Das Projekt soll historisch-interpretierende Verfahren mit Methoden der Digital Humanities verknüpfen, indem das Konzept des Musters Anwendung findet. Die Identifizierung von Mustern in der Orchestermusik soll es ermöglichen, die Aussagekraft der nur sporadisch vorliegenden Zeugnisse zu erhöhen.

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IDEA lecture mit Wolfgang Auhagen:
Methoden und Ergebnisse der musikalischen Wirkungsforschung

Wolfgang Auhagen, Professor für Systematische Musikwissenschaft an der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg.

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CONNECT – Das Publikum als Künstler

Aufführungen von The Sonic Great Wall (Huang Ruo) und In the midst of the Sonorous Islands (Christian Mason) im Rahmen des europaweiten Projekts CONNECT – Das Publikum als Künstler; Gegenstand des Forschungsprojekts The audience as artist - investigating participation and interaction in the CONNECT concerts 2016 von Dr. Jutta Toelle und Iris Mencke. 

Termine:

London, 22.10.2016 (St.John’s Smith Square, London Sinfonietta)

Frankfurt, 30.10.2016 (FrankfurtLab, Ensemble Modern)

s’Hertogenbosch, 05.11.2016 (Muzerije, ASKO|SCHÖNBERG)

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Lecture: Justin London

What Is Musical Tempo?

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IDEA lectures mit Dagmar Danko:
Zur Soziologie der Ästhetik

Dr. Dagmar Danko lebt und arbeitet als Soziologin in Freiburg und Berlin. Sie ist Sprecherin des Arbeitskreises Soziologie der Künste innerhalb der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie.

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IDEA lecture mit Jürgen Stolzenberg:
Musik und Bewusstsein

Prof. Dr. phil. Jürgen Stolzenberg, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg. Einer seiner Schwerpunkte in Lehre und Forschung ist die Philosophie der Musik.

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Workshop: Methods in Empirical Music Research

An intensive five-day workshop for Music Scholars taught by Prof. David Huron
Guest Lecturer: Dr. Daniel Shanahan

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IDEA lectures with David Hargreaves
Musical likes and dislikes

David Hargreaves is professor of Education at the University of Roehampton and Froebel Research Fellow.

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IDEA lectures: Oscillatory brain dynamics underlying perception of pitch, rhythm and emotion in music and speech

Frank Russo, director of the SMART Lab in Ryerson University, is visiting the Department of Neuroscience on the 9-10th of December 2015. On this occasion, he will participate in the IDEA lectures serials with the above talk.

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IDEA lectures with Meinard Müller
Beethoven, Bach, and Billions of Bytes - Music meets Computer Science

Meinard Müller studied mathematics (Diplom) and computer science (Ph.D.) at the University of Bonn, Germany. In 2002/2003, he conducted postdoctoral research in combinatorics at the Mathematical Department of Keio University, Japan. In 2007, he finished his Habilitation at Bonn University in the field of multimedia retrieval writing a book titled "Information Retrieval for Music and Motion" (Springer). From 2007 to 2012, he was a member of the Saarland University and the Max-Planck Institut für Informatik leading the research group "Multimedia Information Retrieval and Music Processing" within the Cluster of Excellence on Multimodal Computing and Interaction. Since September 2012, Meinard Müller holds a professorship for Semantic Audio Processing at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, which is a joint institution of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and the Fraunhofer-Institut für Integrierte Schaltungen IIS. His recent research interests include music processing, audio signal processing, music information retrieval, and motion processing. Besides numerous research articles, Meinard Müller has written a comprehensive textbook titled "Fundamentals of Music Processing" (Springer, www.music-processing.de), which appeared in 2015.

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IDEA lectures: Manfred Bierwisch (ZAS und HU Berlin)

Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Manfred Bierwisch über semiotische Bedingungen und Konsequenzen in Sprache, Musik und Bild.

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Musik – Erleben im Konzert

Warum kaufen wir uns eine Eintrittskarte, um elegant gekleidet in einen Konzertsaal zu gehen und Musik zu hören? Wir könnten ja auch jederzeit in unserem Wohnzimmer eine CD mit der Aufnahme unserer Lieblingsstücke und -orchester hören, ohne Huster, Rascheln oder störenden Zwischenbeifall. Was macht den Unterschied in unserem subjektiven Empfinden aus? Liegt der Unterschied vielleicht darin, dass wir hier das Werden der Musik gemeinsam live verfolgen können? Dass wir sehen können, wie die Musikerinnen und Musiker sie mit vollem Körpereinsatz und expressiver Mimik hervorbringen? Dass der Funke zwischen Bühne und Publikum von Reihe zu Reihe überspringt? Doch was genau passiert eigentlich dabei? Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler des Max-Planck-Instituts für empirische Ästhetik in Frankfurt (M) sowie die Kuratorin für Musikinstrumente im Deutschen Museum gehen diesen und anderen Fragen nach.

Vortragende: Prof. Dr. Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann, Prof. Dr. Hartmut Grimm, Dr. Jutta Toelle, Silke Berdux

Gastgeber: Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Kooperation mit dem Deutschen Museum

Kontakt: forum@gv.mpg.de

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IDEA lectures
Die Hand des Stechers

Prof. Dr. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger über die Begegnung zwischen dem Wissenschaftsphilosophen Gaston Bachelard und dem Kupferstecher Albert Flocon.

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