Media offerings from the academy
The Academy’s media offerings range from the new video podcast seriesDer Blaue Salonto promotional videos, recordings of lectures, and livestreams. You can find recent media from the past few months below.
All videos are also permanently available on YouTube. Take a look:
Der blaue Salon
AI, medicine, and ethics
Florian Steger discusses the work of a medical ethicist and how the use of AI could change the doctor-patient relationship.
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Executioner as healer
Andreas Deutsch shows that executioners not only tortured and killed, but could also heal—and what they used to make their gruesome medicine...
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Hindu Temple Legends
In Search of the Temple Legends of Kanchipuram
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The Goethe Dictionary
The Goethe Dictionary is an individual language dictionary that presents Goethe's entire vocabulary in alphabetical order.
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German Inscriptions
The interacademic project "German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages" records and annotates Latin and German inscriptions from the Middle Ages and early modern period up to the year 1650 and publishes them in an edition.
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The German Legal Dictionary
The project "Das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch" (The German Legal Dictionary) is a large dictionary of historical German and West Germanic legal language.
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Research in Nepal
The project "Sources of Pre-modern Nepal" makes available documents and texts on the religious and legal history of pre-modern Nepal.
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Culture and Human Development
The ROCEEH project investigates human evolution between 3 million and 20,000 years ago.
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Monasteries and innovations
The project "Monasteries in the High Middle Ages" analyzes the monastic world of the Middle Ages as a precursor to modernity.