The beginning of the 2013 summer semester sees the arrival of three new research focuses at the CAS. Newly appointed to the Chair for the Philosophy of Science at the LMU, Prof. Stephan Hartmann will direct the research focus "Reduction and Emergence in the Sciences", while the professors of economic history, Davide Cantoni and Ludger Wößmann, will work on the topic of "Mechanisms of Persistence in Economic History". The problem of " Waste in Environment and Society " will be addressed by Professor Christof Mauch in cooperation with colleagues from several other disciplines. Depending on the particulars of the discipline, the activities of the research focuses are reflected in concentrated work discussions and workshops, or in lecture series and conferences with a high public profile, as well as in cooperation with visiting scholars. more

Upon invitation from LMU scholars, visiting scholars from around the world will once again conduct research in Munich in the summer semester. The Shakespeare specialists Ewan Fernie and CAS Senior Researcher in Residence Tobias Döring will be focusing on the Elizabethan poet. Ferenc Krausz will cooperate with the physicist Mark Stockman, one of the world's leading theorists in the field of nanoplasmonics. The sociologist George Ritzer, known among other things for his theory concerning the "McDonaldization of Society", will be at the CAS upon invitation from Ulrich Beck. The literature scholar Liliane Weissberg will be following an invitation from Friedrich Vollhardt (CAS Senior Researcher in Residence) with whom she will be analyzing tolerance discourses of the 18th century. The molecular biologist David N. Arnosti, a proven expert on the transcriptional regulation in the development of the fruit fly Drosophila, will conduct further research on this subject in cooperation with Paul Ladurner and his colleagues. more

Science and art go hand-in-hand at the CAS, as the regular exhibitions in the rooms of the center demonstrate. In cooperation with the UniGalerie, the CAS presents works by artists who were trained at the Academy of Fine Arts or who teach there, such as Melissa MayerGalbraith, whose works will be displayed in the summer semester at the CAS. Every semester at the CAS is traditionally opened with a vernissage. more