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“A byword for European justice”

May 08, 2013

Interview with Burkhard Hess, Founding Director at the new Max Planck Institute in Luxembourg more

Cultural fragments: Glagolitsa, the oldest known Slavic alphabet, is regarded as a textbook example of successful cultural transfer and acculturation. The scholar and monk Constantine from the city of Thessaloniki developed it around 863 on the basis of the Greek minuscule script, also incorporating Semitic and Caucasian script systems.

Deep in the sediments of integrated culture

April 08, 2013

At the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Dittmar Schorkowitz studies how the process of cultural transfer unfolded during the encounters of Eurasian populations in the Middle Ages. more

The great orchestral work of speech

February 25, 2013

Max Planck Institute Director Peter Hagoort researches the complex score in the brain that enables humans to speak more

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MaxPlanckResearch 2/2024: Focus: Law creates Freedom

The focus of this issue also takes up the theme of the Science Year 2024 “Freedom”. This time, it is about how law and rules create freedom: In Germany, the Federal Constitutional Court watches over this in the last instance. Whether and how the highest court can be protected from anti-freedom and anti-democratic attacks is one of our topics. It is also about how the freedom of people who are existentially threatened by climate change can be secured - even if it is the freedom to seek refuge in other countries. Finally, we shed light on the extent to which Germany has benefited from the freedom that the EU has created, particularly with the single market, and how freedom and prosperity can be secured in the future.

Newsroom – Category: Humanities

“A byword for European justice”

Deep in the sediments of integrated culture

The great orchestral work of speech

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