Activities

• • Workshop "Mental Images in the Middle Ages and Neuroscience - New Perspectives"

    As part of the project "Lucid Dreaming, Now and Then", medievalist Racha Kirakosian (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study) is organising an internal workshop on "Mental Images in the Middle Ages and Neuroscience - New Perspectives".

    The ability to see images before "the inner eye" was theoretically discussed in scholastic writings in the Middle Ages as well as critically presented in literary texts. Mental images such as visions, daydreams and sleep dreams played an important role in epistemological processes, religious experiences and artistic arguments for the question of finding and representing truth. Despite their importance for the historical understanding of the human brain, however, medieval concepts of "inner vision" remain under-researched. Can current findings from the neurosciences help to open up the medieval sources in a new way? And, conversely, can ideas from the Middle Ages inspire innovative experiments in the field of neuropsychology? The Hamburg workshop will address these questions by bringing together scientists from the relevant fields for an interdisciplinary discussion.

    Topics:

    • Event
    • dialogue
    • psychology
    • language

    Starts on

    23.06.22

    Event access: Internal

    Hamburg Institute for Advanced Study

  • „Mare Incognito“ at the Cambridge Festival

    Martin Dresler (neuroscience) and Fabian Schmidt (astrophysics) are part of the interdisciplinary project "Mare Incognito". At the Cambridge Festival, the team will present the project in a series of talks and film clips.

    Topics:

    • Event
    • dialogue
    • art
    • music

    Starts on

    09.04.22

    Event access: Public

    Cambridge

    13:00 — 14:30

  • Image / Language

    Science is inconceivable without language. But what about images? In six articles, the new Junge Akademie Magazin explores this question from different perspectives. Additionally, the poster page poses the question, solely through pictures, of what influence such simple images as emojis have on our ideas of science and of scientists.

    Topics:

    • Magazine
    • linguistics
    • media
    • language

    Michael Bies, Bettina Bock, Benedict Esche, Stefanie Büchner, Isabelle Dolezalek, Martin Dresler, Benedict Esche, Boris N. Konrad

    Berlin 2021