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Dr. Anne Sudrow (Berlin) was a guest at the History Department's research colloquium on November 25. In her lecture, she discussed the research and production of herbal medicines carried out under inhumane conditions in the so-called "herb garden" of the Dachau concentration camp by the SS company "Deutsche Versuchsanstalt für Ernährung und Verpflegung".
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The 44th "History of Technology Conference" of the Eisenbibliothek in Schaffhausen/CH on November 14 and 15, 2025 dealt with the topic "Low-Tech: Procedures, Actors, Concepts". Silke Zimmer-Merkle gave a presentation on the question "Are children's mobilities (s)low-tech? Reflections on the historical example of the scooter". The conference papers will be published in the journal Ferrum.
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Program:
7:45-13:00h Information booth of the Faculty GeistSoz (Audimax, Building 30.95, Straße am Forum 1)
09:45-10:30h Liberal Arts and Sciences at KIT (INFORMATIKOM/Geb. 50.19, seminar room 4)
10:30-11:15h History in the LAS - student advisory service (INFORMATIKOM/Geb. 50.19, seminar room 4), hybrid event
11:30 - 13:00h Seminar "Orientation History" gives an introduction to studying History at KIT (Building 30.91, Franz-Haber-Weg 7, Room 012)
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On November 10, 2025, the volume will be published in the series "Oberrheinische Studien" under the editorship of Marcus Popplow and others. The anthology consists of contributions that were produced as part of the annual conference of the AG für geschichtliche Landeskunde am Oberrhein on October 7-8, 2022. In his report, Tilman Wagle examines the conflicts of use in fishing on the Murg.
In the last week of October, the semester in the new Liberal Arts and Sciences degree program started with numerous information events: We started with "Meet your LAS Prof" and the freshman welcome events on Monday. On Tuesday, the first-year students got to know our lecturers and had their questions answered at the "LAS Open Doors". Wednesday was followed by LAS Alumnitalks with representatives from various majors. The exciting week ended with the kickoff of the core lecture. We wish all first-year students every success in their studies!
On October 19, the anniversary exhibition 200 Years of KIT - 100 Objects - Parts of the Whole ended with a finissage at the ZKM. The focus was on a panel discussion with the Euklid Master's students and alumni Nicolas Novak, Magdalena Pfeiffer, Patricia Schillinger and Martin Ullmann, who were involved in the exhibition project. Moderated by Dr. Klaus Nippert and Andrea Stengel, they discussed the potential of exhibitions as a form of knowledge transfer.
