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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.
Under the motto "People, Places, Exchanges, and Circulation", the 27th International Congress for the History of Science and Technology (ICHST) took place in July at the University of Otago in Dunedin, New Zealand. 900 speakers took part. Stefan Poser organized a session on the history of plastics and addressed the topic of landscape design and use: Landscapes Formed by Plastics: from "Improvement" to Environmental Degradation. Martin Meiske was elected as a member of the Executive Committee of ICOHTEC.
For Deutsche Welle, Rolf-Ulrich Kunze has classified the historical significance of the 'Nuremberg Laws' of 1935 and also discusses their relevance for group-related misanthropy today.
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On September 2 and 3, the working group on energy history set up at the beginning of 2025 met at the Department of History for its first strategy meeting. The field of energy history research has broadened considerably in recent years and is being pursued from various disciplines. Christian Zumbrägel (University of Bielefeld), Robert Groß (University of Vienna) and Nicole Hesse (KIT; photo from left to right) therefore focused on outlining energy history research, particularly in German-speaking countries, as part of the working meeting.
