Visiting Scholarships, Max Planck Institute Working Group “Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100–1700)”

The Max Planck Institute invites applications for Visiting Scholarships (residential, 3–12 months) to take place within the period from 1 September 2022 to 31 August 2023. The posting reads: “We invite scholars to apply for participation in the working group “Agriculture and the Making of Sciences (1100–1700)” of Department III. The working group explores how agricultural practices informed scientific, technological, and medical change from the twelfth to seventeenth centuries, with special focus on the study of extra-European contexts. The working group’s research theme changes annually, and in 2022–2023 it will focus on the annual theme of “water”. We welcome researchers working on agricultural practices related to water, such as irrigation, water harvesting, construction and maintenance of waterworks, or water management. Their research should address the question of how these practices contributed to the development of pre-modern sciences studying water, especially how they were in relation to fields of knowledge and practices other than agriculture.”

For more information, visit here. Review of applications commenced on 1 June 2022.