As we all know: Neighbors, family and friends can be mean. In the Middle Ages, they had an instrument that made things even worse: they could accuse each other out of ‘Hate and Spite’.
You want to know more about it: Listen to #CASFellow and member of the #CASResearchGroup “Femicide” Sara Butler.

We warmly welcome Theodore R. Brennan @cornelluniversity.bsky.social as #CASFellow. As a specialist in ancient Greek philosophy, he will collaborate with Peter Adamson @histphilosophy.bsky.social. www.cas.lmu.de/de/personen-...

We warmly welcome Ronojoy Sen (Political Sciences at the National University of Singapore) as #CASFellow.

@lmu.de, he's collaborating with Sahana Udupa @sahanaudupa.bsky.social, bringing together perspectives from media studies and Indian history.
www.cas.lmu.de/en/people-at...

We warmly welcome Joseph Ayoub, Professor of Mathematics at the University of Zurich @uzh-ch.bsky.social, as #CASFellow and member of Nikita Geldhauser’s #CASResearchGroup “Algebraic Groups, Motives and Applications”.

She is a #CASFellow and a member of Julia Burkhardt’s #CASResearchGroup “Femicide: Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Global Historical Phenomenon”.
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US-Wissenschaftler zu Trump: „Derzeit haben wir unsere Demokratie fast verloren“ Ein Gespräch mit Steven Levitsky und Daniel Ziblatt, zwei der wichtigsten Politikwissenschaftler der USA, über die Lage ein Jahr nach Beginn der zweiten Trump-Amtszeit.

Die Politikwissenschaftler Daniel Ziblatt @dziblatt.bsky.social, ehemals #CASFellow @harvard.edu @wzb.bsky.social und Steven Levitsky @harvard.edu geben ihre Diagnose über den Zustand der Demokratie in den USA ab.
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We warmly welcome Nikita Karpenko, Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, as #CASFellow and member of Nikita Geldhauser’s #CASResearchGroup “Algebraic Groups, Motives and Applications”.

(S+) Untergang der ersten deutschen Demokratie: »Bis 1927 war die Weimarer Republik eher eine Erfolgsgeschichte« Vor 100 Jahren feierte Deutschland die »Goldenen Zwanziger«. Sieben Jahre später war die Demokratie am Ende. Hätte die Geschichte auch anders ausgehen könnten? Ja, meint der Historiker Daniel Siemens....

#CASFellow Daniel Siemens @danielsiemens.bsky.social @newcastleuni.bsky.social hält die politische Lage in den mittleren Weimarer Jahren für weniger fragil als oft behauptet. Stabile Koalitionen der politischen Mitte hätten die Drift nach Rechtsaußen verhindern können. www.spiegel.de/geschichte/w...

Zum 50. Todestag von Hannah Arendt: Gastbeitrag von Natan Sznaider Die jüdische Erscheinung Hannah Arendt: Wie helfen die Schriften der vor 50 Jahren verstorbenen Theoretikerin dabei, die heutigen Zeiten besser zu verstehen?

„Diese Verknüpfung zwischen Moral und Identität ist Hannah Arendts Antwort darauf, wie man die Spannung zwischen Partikularismus und Universalismus aushält." - #CASFellow Natan Sznaider @SZ zum 50. Todestag dieser faszinierenden, einflussreichen Intellektuellen.

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We warmly welcome Clemens Bauer, Department of Psychology @northeasternu.bsky.social, as #CASFellow. In Munich, he’s collaborating with Inga Koerte @lmu-klinikum.bsky.social to advance real-time neuroimaging approaches for improving outcomes after mild traumatic brain injury.

We warmly welcome Herb Susmann @herbps10.bsky.social (@nyu.edu Grossman School of Medicine), as a #CASFellow. Michael Schomaker @mfschomaker.bsky.social invited him to come to Munich in the context of the #CASResearchFocus “Medical Data Processing”.

Migration in Großbritannien: Warum die deutsche Regierung auf Keir Starmers Politik schauen sollte Großbritanniens Premier Keir Starmer will die liberale Gesellschaft bewahren und gleichzeitig die Migration massiv begrenzen. Die deutsche Regierung sollte genau verfolgen, wohin solche Manöver führen...

Aus den Fehlern in Großbritannien lernen:
#CASFellow Frank Trentmann @bbkhistorical.bsky.social macht @szde.bsky.social deutlich, was in der deutschen Migrationspolitik besser gemacht werden kann.
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On Tuesday, 21 October, the #CASResearchGroup Algebraic Groups, Motives and Applications kicks off with a lecture by #CASFellow Alexander Merkurjev (UCLA).

🕓 4:30 PM. Join us at the Mathematical Institute LMU, Room A 027, or online. 👉🏻 register at info@cas.lmu.de

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We warmly welcome Stefan Gille, Professor in the Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, as #CASFellow and member of Nikita Geldhauser’s #CASResearchGroup “Algebraic Groups, Motives and Applications”.

We warmly welcome Alexander Merkurjev, Professor of Mathematics at UCLA, as #CASFellow and member of Nikita Geldhauser’s #CASResearchGroup “Algebraic Groups, Motives and Applications”. On 21 October, he will give a talk on “Inverse Galois Problem and Galois Cohomology” at the Mathematical Insitute.

We warmly welcome William Boone, Professor for Educational Psychology, @univmiami.bsky.social‬, as #CASFellow. In Munich, he’s collaborating with Birgit Neuhaus @lmumuenchen.bsky.social on teaching and learning processes in the natural sciences.

Eine Prise Umwelt, reichlich Klimaskepsis und ein kräftiger Schuss Ideologie Besonders reizvoll schien mir die Frage, wie eine Partei, die im öffentlichen Diskurs regelmäßig durch klimaskeptische Positionen auffällt, diese Haltung argumentativ mit anderen Umweltfragen und den ...

#CASFellow Vincent Balnat @unistra.fr präsentiert im CAS Blog die gemeinsame Forschung mit seinem LMU-Gastgeber Michael Rödel.
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CAS-Fellow Professor Frank Trentmann

We warmly welcome Frank Trentmann @bbkhistorical.bsky.social @helsinki.fi as #CASFellow, working together with CAS researcher in residence @sinasteglich.bsky.social.

Podcast: Warum ist das Universum so? Eine physikalische Sinnsuche Bei näherer Betrachtung fällt auf, dass wir in einem wirklich schicken Universum leben: Es ist nicht zu heiß, nicht zu kurvig, nicht zu langsam, nicht zu leicht und nicht zu leer. Warum scheint alles ...

"What I like most is that there is love in the universe", says #CASFellow George Ellis in a radio feature on BR (@brkommunikation.bsky.social‬):
www.ardaudiothek.de/episode/urn:...

@lmumuenchen.bsky.social @stephanhartmann.bsky.social @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social

We warmly welcome Norman Yao, Professor of Physics @harvard.edu‬, as #CASFellow. In Munich, he’s collaborating with Immanuel Bloch and Monika Aidelsburger @mcqst.bsky.social @lmumuenchen.bsky.social on cutting-edge quantum states research.

We warmly welcome Andrew Hui, Professor of Literature at the Yale-NUS College, Singapore, as #CASFellow. Yesterday, he presented his seminal work on the Renaissance “studiolo".
@princetonupress.bsky.social ky.social

We warmly welcome filmmaker and scientist Vilsoni Hereniko from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa ‪@hawaiigeography.bsky.social as #CASFellow. He works together with Philipp Schorch @lmumuenchen.bsky.social and the further members of the #CASResearchFocus #Cosmology.

We warmly welcome philosopher Dorothea Frede from the @uni-hamburg.de‬ as a #CASFellow. During her stay she works together with CAS director Christof Rapp @lmumuenchen.bsky.social on Aristotelian Philosphy.

We warmly welcome geographer Adrienne Johnson @geographista.bsky.social‬ from Wilfrid Laurier University
@wilfridlaurieruni.bsky.social‬ as #CASFellow. She has been invited by Eveline Dürr @lmumuenchen.bsky.social to join the the #CASResearchFocus on #PlanetaryHealth.

We warmly welcome philosopher Sarah Buss from the University of Michigan @uofmichigan.bsky.social as a #CASFellow. She works together with Monika Betzler @lmumuenchen.bsky.social on the intersection of metaphysics and ethics.

The Rules We Live By: The Development of the Normative Ape Humans are a hyper social species. We live in large groups and depend on others to both survive and thrive. Moreover, many humans live in groups so large that most days we are required to coordinate o...

New on the CAS Blog: #CASFellow Kristen Dunfield’s contribution on “The Rules We Live By: The Development of the Normative Ape”.
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We warmly welcome Vincent Balnat as #CASFellow. He is Professor at the German Studies Department at the University of Strasbourg @unistra.fr and works together with Michael Rödel @lmumuenchen.bsky.social.

It is an honour for us to welcome one of the world's leading cosmologists as #CASFellow: George Ellis (Cape Town) is joining CAS at the invitation of Andreas Burkert @origins-cluster ‪@lmumuenchen.bsky.social‬ and Stephan Hartmann @stephanhartmann.bsky.social‬ @lmu-mcmp.bsky.social‬.

We warmly welcome the historian Edoardo Tortarolo as #CASFellow.
On 2 June he will present his research on “The Legacy of the Enlightenment? Volney, Dupuis, and Post-Revolutionary Atheism” at LMU’s History Department. @brendecke.bsky.social
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We warmly welcome Michael Pusch as #CASFellow. He is Research Director at the Biophysics Institute of Italy’s National Research Council in Genoa (IBF). He works together with Annette Nicke and Christoph Grimm at the Walther Straub Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology at LMU.