The Academy's Media Offerings

The Academy’s media offerings range from the new video podcast series “Blauer Salon” to promotional videos, recordings of lectures, and livestreams. You can find recent media from the past few months below.

All videos are also permanently available on YouTube. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/@heidelbergerakademiederwis5929

AI, Medicine, and Ethics

The Blauer Salon

AI, Medicine, and Ethics
Florian Steger discusses the work of a medical ethicist and how the use of AI could change the doctor-patient relationship.
Executioners as Healers

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Executioners as Healers
Andreas Deutsch shows that executioners not only tortured and killed, but were also capable of healing—and reveals what they used to make their gruesome medicine...
Hindu Temple Legends

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Hindu Temple Legends
In Search of the Temple Legends of Kanchipuram
The Goethe-Woerterbuch

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The Goethe-Woerterbuch
The Goethe-Woerterbuch is a dictionary of meanings organized by individual words that presents Goethe's entire vocabulary in alphabetical order.
The German Inscriptions

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The German Inscriptions
The inter-academic project “German Inscriptions of the Middle Ages” catalogs and annotates Latin and German-language inscriptions from the Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period up to the year 1650 and publishes them in an edition.
Das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch

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Das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch
The "Das Deutsche Rechtswörterbuch" project is a comprehensive dictionary of historical German and West Germanic legal language.
Research in Nepal

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Research in Nepal
The "Sources of Pre-Modern Nepal" project catalogs documents and texts on the history of religion and law of pre-modern Nepal.
Culture and Human Development

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Culture and Human Development
The "ROCEEH" project is studying human evolution between 3 million and 20,000 years ago.
Monasteries and Innovations

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Monasteries and Innovations
The project "Monasteries in the High Middle Ages" analyzes the monastic world of the Middle Ages as a precursor to modernity.