Date and location

The conference will be held from Thursday 29th to Friday 30th April, 2010 at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities, formerly Prussian Academy of Sciences.

This Academy was founded in 1700 by Leibniz and attained worldwide fame and recognition as the «Prussian Academy of Sciences». Past members of the Academy include famous people such as the Brothers Grimm, Alexander von Humboldt, Lise Meitner and Albert Einstein. The Academy boasts 78 Nobel laureates among its members.

Today, the Academy is one of the major institutions of research in humanities in the Brandenburg region and is funded by the States of Berlin and Brandenburg as well as the joint academy programme of the Federal Government and the federal states.

Academie website: http://www.bbaw.de/