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Beate Passow, Monkey Business Gibraltar, 2017 (Art at CAS, WS 2019/20)

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Horst Antes: Nestor, Telemach (Album Leaf 4), 1966/67, gouache, collage on printed etching template by Bonaventura Genelli (Aquatec, ink, and paper), Franz Marc Museum, Etta and Otto Stangl Foundation, (Art at CAS, Winter 2020/21)

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Current Events at CAS

28 Jan

28/01/2026 Lunch Talk: What does it Mean to be Accused out of ‘Hate and Spite’? A History of Emotions
Prof. Sara M. Butler, Ph.D. (CAS Research Group, Ohio State) | Chair: Prof. Dr. Julia Burkhardt (CAS Research Group, LMU)
02 Feb

02/02/2026 The Spiritual Body and the Spirit of the Nation
Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer (Max Planck Gesellschaft) | Chair: Prof. Dr. Sahana Udupa (LMU)
03 Feb

03/02/2026 AI, Algorithms, and the Transformation of Online Communication: Insights from the ETL Research Center
Dr. Iina Savolainen (CAS Fellow/Tampere) | Chair: Dr. Magdalena Obermaier (CAS Researcher in Residence/LMU)
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CAS Blog

“All About Art”, “Global Worlds” or “Relations”: Contributions to the current topics at CAS, well-founded and comprehensively presented. Current article: Daniel Sharp, “Equal Citizenship & Global Inequality: Is Reconciliation Possible?”.

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