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Online Book Launch: Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective

Tuesday, June 9, 2026
4–5:30 pm

Online
The book launch will introduce to an academic audience and also to a broader public a new collection of essays and documents, Signs and Signification in a Global Comparative Perspective: Premodern and Early Modern Sources in Original and Translation, co-edited by Maria Avxentevskaya (Marie Sklodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow, Warburg Institute) and Glenn W. Most (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) and published by Brill in 2026.

Register on the Warbung Institute website. Link to the event will be shared upon registration.

Dr. Maria Avxentevskaya (Auxent) is a Research Associate at Bard College Berlin and Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Warburg Institute (University of London). Her work has been supported by the Max Planck Society, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung, Klassik Stiftung Weimar, Herzog August Bibliothek, the German Research Foundation, the Warburg Institute, and the European Commission. She has taught history of science, scientific translation, and science communication at Bard College Berlin, Technische Universität Berlin, and the University of Sydney. Her science journalism has been republished online by The Independent and Scientific Americ​an.

Glenn W. Most ​i​s Professor ​Emeritus of Greek Philology at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, a​ Visiting Professor on the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and an External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. He has published books on Classics, on ancient philosophy, on the history and methodology of Classical studies, on comparative literature, cultural studies, and the history of religion, on literary theory and on the history of art, and has published numerous articles, reviews, and translations in these fields and also in such other ones as modern philosophy and literature.

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Berlin Summer Studio Arts "Open Studios"

Thursday, June 25, 2026
5–7 pm

Direktorenhaus at Monopol (Provinzstraße 44, 13409)
Students participating in the new Berlin Summer Studio Arts Intensive will exhibit pieces made during the month-long program. The title and them of the 2026 course is "Surrealism: How Surreal is Now?" Students have been exploring what remains vital in Surrealist practices and ideas, and consider how they might be reimagined today.