The Future: A History

Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”

The Substance that Empowers? Population genetics research in South Asia

Presentation

Yulia Egorova (MPIWG Berlin)

Presentation

Susan Maxwell (MPIWG, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh)

Time

March 18, 2013
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin

Organizers

Research Group Dupré

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Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”

Genetic History: A Challenge to Medieval Studies

Date

March 14, 2013
11 a.m.

Presentation

Jörg Feuchter (MPIWG Berlin)

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
rm. 005

Contact

Alexandra Widmer

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For further information, see this website.

Presentation

Comenius-Garten

Time

March 14, 2013
1 p.m.

Adress

Richard-Schule
Richardplatz 14
12043 Berlin

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Conference

Laboratories of Art

Date

March 7 - 8, 2013

Organizer

Sven Dupré (MPIWG, FU Berlin)
Dedo von Kerssenbrock-Krosigk (Kunstpalast Museum Düsseldorf)

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Description

Common components of art and alchemy were materials, instruments, apparatus as well as processes and experiments. Laboratories of Art investigates ways in which artists' workshops could be said to be sites of alchemy. Exploring the relationship between art, knowledge, and technology, speakers discuss various visual and decorative arts: glassmaking, metallurgy, sculpture, goldsmithing, ceramics, and painting.

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Talk

Gravity: A Political History

Presentation

David Kaiser (MIT)

Time

March 8, 2013
11 a.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Rm. 265

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A popular image persists of Albert Einstein as a loner, someone who avoided the hustle and bustle of everyday life in favor of quiet contemplation. Yet Einstein was deeply engaged with politics throughout his life; indeed, he was so active politically that the US FBI kept him under surveillance for decades, His most enduring scientific legacy, the general theory of relativity - physicists' reigning explanation for gravity and the basis for nearly all our thinking about the cosmos - has likewise been cast as an austere temple standing aloof from the all-too-human dramas of political history. But was it so? This talk explores the linkages between the pursuit of general relativity and the political history of the 20th century, tracing the embedding of the research in the wider context of the social responsibility of science.

Institute’s Colloquium

Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr’s Proximate-ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?

Presentation

Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews)

Time

March 6, 2013
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Organizer

This year’s colloquium series is organized by Matteo Valleriani (valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

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Talk

Teaching Plato in Palestine

Presentation

Carlos Fraenkel (MPIWG)

Time

March 6, 2013
7 p.m.

Address

European College of Liberal Arts
Platanenstraße 98a
13156 Berlin
Lecture Hall

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Keynote Lecture

Fragile Daten

Presentation

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG Berlin)

Time

March 01, 2013
7 p.m.

Address

Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt
Jägerstraße 22/23
10117 Berlin
Einstein-Saal

Organizers

The conference is organized by the ZHdK, the BBAW and the Schering Stiftung(bogatz@bbaw.de).

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Talk

January 9, 2013
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Contact

For more information please email David Sepkoski

Institute’s Colloquium

Linking Scholars. Bringing your Research on the Web – Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Other Issues

Presentation

Urs Schoepflin (MPIWG, Berlin)

Time

December 19, 2012
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Organizer

This year’s colloquium series is organized by Matteo Valleriani (valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

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Doctoral Forum

Berlin Doctoral Forum for the History of Science

Date

Friday, December 14, 2012

Organizers

Anke te Heesen (Humboldt Universität),
Philip van der Eijk (Humboldt Universität),
Mark Geller (Freie Universität),
Claus Zittel (Freie Universität),
Friedrich Steinle (Technische Universität),
Veronika Lipphardt (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science),
Sven Dupré (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)

Contributors

Orly Lewis,
Simon Rebohm,
Christian Schepsmeier,
Stefanie Rudolf,
Lucian Petrescu,
Anja Sattelmacher

Commentators

Paul Scade,
Angela Fischel,
David Sepkoski,
Johannes Bach,
Claus Zittel,
Peter Berz

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Program

Registration

Please register by email by December 10, 2012.

Conference

Deaf World/Hearing World: Spaces, Techniques, and Things in Culture and History

Date

December 10-11, 2012

Organizers

Organized by Sabine Arnaud and Lennard Davis, with the support of the Max Planck Institute as well as the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, the Department of English, and the Department of Disability and Human Development of the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Venue

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room

Program

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Seminar Series “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century”

“On 135 Papuan Skulls”: The Contested Craniology of A. B. Mayer

Date

Thursday, December 6, 2012
11 am - 1 pm

Presentation

Hilary Howes

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

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Institute’s Colloquium

Experts in the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory

Presentation

Ursula Klein (MPIWG, Berlin)

Time

December 5, 2012
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Organizer

This year’s colloquium series is organized by Matteo Valleriani (valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

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Vernissage

Welt im Wandel: Herausforderung für die Gesellschaft

Date

Wednesday, December 5, 2012
7 p.m.

Program

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schön (Director at the MPI for Tax Law and Public Finance; Vice President of the MPG),
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn (Director at the MPI for the History of Science),
Prof. Dr. Angela D. Friederici (Director at the MPI for Human Cognitive and Brain Science)

Address

Max Planck Science Gallery
Markgrafenstr. 37
10117 Berlin

Notes

admission free
Following the opening of the exhibition the new “Edition Open Access” will be presented.

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For further information, see the Max Planck Science Gallery‘s website.

Institute’s Colloquium

Evaluating Galileo’s “Discorsi”: Theorical and Practical Knowledge in the Scholarly Practices of 17th-century Readers

Presentation

Renée Raphael (Unversity of California, Irvine)

Time

November 28, 2012
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Organizer

This year’s colloquium series is organized by Matteo Valleriani (valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

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Institute’s Colloquium

Towards an Infrastructure for Digital Humanities at the MPIWG: From ECHO to the Digital ScrapBook

Presentation

Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG, Berlin)

Time

Tuesday, November 27, 2012
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Organizer

This year’s colloquium series is organized by Matteo Valleriani (valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

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Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

The Transmission of Knowledge and Cipriano Piccolpasso’s Three Books of the Art of the Potter (1558-75)

Date

Monday, November 19, 2012
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Presentation

Steve Wharton (Sussex)

Organizers

Max Planck Research Group Dupré

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin

Notes

For further information, see this website.

Scholars’ Forum

Geschichte des Musikhörens

Date

Friday, November 16, 2012

Organizers

Daniel Morat (Freie Universität Berlin),
Christian Thorau (Universität Potsdam),
Hansjakob Ziemer (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin)

Contributors

Frauke Fitzner (Berlin),
Andreas Möllenkamp (Rostock),
Alexander Kleinschrodt (Bonn),
Janine Wiesecke (Potsdam),
Anabelle Spallek (Berlin),
Solveig Heinz (Ann Arbor),
Johanna-Marie Rohlf (Berlin),
André Wendler (Weimar)

Venue

Freie Universität Berlin
Henry-Ford-Bau
Konferenzraum II
Garystr. 35
14195 Berlin-Dahlem

Registration

For participation, please register with Daniel Morat.

CFP

Seminar Series “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century”

Contacting Difference: An Analysis of American Physical Anthropological Practice in ‚Indian Country’ During the Early Twentieth Century

Date

Thursday, November 15, 2012
11 am - 1 pm

Presentation

Ann Kakaliouras

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

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Workshop

Mathematics and the Transformation of Economics after 1945

Date

Friday, November 9, 2012
9 am – 6 pm

Organizer

Till Düppe (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Presentations

E. Roy Weintraub, Lorraine Daston, Paul Erickson, Jan-Otmar Hesse, Floris Heukelom, and Harald Hagemann

Address

Heilig-Geist-Kapelle
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultät der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Spandauer Strasse 1
10178 Berlin

Notes

Attendance is open to everyone and free of charge. Please send an e-mail indicating your attendance to Till Düppe.
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Seminar Series “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century”

Technologies of Identity: Race, DNA, and the Paradoxes of the Database State

Date

Thursday, November 8, 2012
11 am - 1 pm

Presentation

David Skinner

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

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Seminar Series “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century”

Taking Biological Laboratories and the ‘Rational’ Management of Plants, Fish and Other Populations from the Dutch Indies to German East Africa, 1880-1920

Date

Thursday, November 1, 2012
11 am - 1 pm

Presentation

Robert-Jan Wille

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

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Institute’s Colloquium

Die Bedeutung praktischen Wissens für Wasserradtheorien im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

Presentation

Gerhard Rammer (Technische Universität Berlin)

Time

October 31, 2012 (PLEASE NOTE: THIS TALK HAS BEEN POSTPONED
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Organizer

This year’s colloquium series is organized by Matteo Valleriani (valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).

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Workshop

Constructing Norms and Disputing the Boundaries of Expertise: Interrogating the Legacy of Georges Canguilhem and Michel Foucault

Date

October 30, 2012
10.30 am - 5 pm

Presentation

Peter Cryle (Queensland, Australia)
The Normative and the normal in nineteenth-century French bio-medical thinking: Rereading Canguilhem
Jean-François Braunstein (Paris)
Canguilhem before Canguilhem
Sabine Arnaud (MPIWG Berlin)
Disciplinary Conflicts and the Distribution of Competence: Deafness between 1860 and 1900
Todd Meyers (Wayne, USA)
Experimentation and Therapeutics. Kurt Goldstein’s thought, including its interpretation by Georges Canguilhem and others
Alessandro Bosetti (Berlin)
“Il Fiore della Bocca”

Organizers

Organized by Sabine Arnaud

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room

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For further information, see this website.

Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

China in the Studio. Painting Porcelain in the Seventeenth-Century Netherlands

Date

Monday, October 29, 2012
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Presentation

Thijs Weststeijn (Berlin/Amsterdam)

Organizers

Max Planck Research Group Dupré

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin

Notes

For further information, see this website.

International Conference

Internationaler Arbeitskreis zu Hegels Naturphilosophie

Contact

Berlin: Renate Wahsner or Hartmut Kern Coordination Kaiserslautern: Anni Mauch

Time

October 24-25, 2010

Date

Thursday, October 18, 2012
11 am - 1 pm

Presentation

Ricardo Roque

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

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Workshop

Minerva Gentner Symposium 2012: The Study of Jewish Biological Difference After 1945

Time

October 15-16, 2012

Tuesday, July 10, 2012
7 p.m.

Organizers

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in cooperation with the Forum Transregional Studies

Description

The Globalization of Knowledge has a long history. In four sessions of discussions with scholars from different disciplines it will be asked how transfer was achieved, which kinds of media were involved and in which spaces such processes took place.

Discussion

Matthias Middell (Leipzig)
Dhruv Raina (New Delhi/Berlin)
Viola König (Berlin)
Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Berlin)

Venue

MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room

Notes

Visitors welcome

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Scholars’ Forum

7th Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science

Date

Saturday, July 7, 2012

Organizers

Prof. Dr. Jutta Müller-Tamm, Freie Universität Berlin und Friedrich-Schlegel-Graduierten- schule der Freien Universität Berlin
Dr. Hansjakob Ziemer, MPIWG Berlin
Dr. Johanna Bohley, Freie Universität Berlin
Dr. des. Fabian Krämer, Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University
Prof. Dr. Christina Brandt, Mercator Forschergruppe 2, Ruhr-Universität Bochum
Prof. Dr. Bernhard Kleeberg, EXC 16, Universität Konstanz

Contributors

Johannes Görbert (Berlin),
Miriam Eilers (Bochum),
Frauke Fitzner (Berlin),
Sergej Rickenbacher (Lausanne),
Tim Sparenberg (Frankfurt/O),
Till Greite (Berlin)

Commentators

Nils Güttler (Berlin),
Arne Schirrmacher (Berlin),
Viktoria Tkaczyk (Berlin),
Caroline Welsh (Berlin),
Martin Jähnert (Berlin),
Laura Otis (Berlin)

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

CFP

Program of the series “ArteFakte”

Akademievorlesung “ArteFakte. Wissen ist Kunst – Kunst ist Wissen”

Eine gemeinsame Vision. Zusammenarbeit zwischen Künstlern und Naturforschern in der Frühen Neuzeit

Date

Thursday, July 5, 2012
6.30 p.m.

Presentation

Lorraine Daston (Berlin)

Venue

Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin

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Lecture Series “Kunst und Technik”

Tuesday, June 19, 2012
7 p.m.

Organizers

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in cooperation with the Forum Transregional Studies

Description

The Globalization of Knowledge has a long history. In four sessions of discussions with scholars from different disciplines it will be asked how transfer was achieved, which kinds of media were involved and in which spaces such processes took place.

Discussion

Susanne Klengel (Berlin)
Jens Braarvig (Oslo)
Gerd Graßhoff (Berlin)
Roger D. Woodard (Buffalo/Berlin)

Venue

MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room

Notes

Visitors welcome

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Full description and the seminar series‘ website

Seminar Series “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century”

Care/Souci/Pflege of the Data, Amazement, and the Impossible Sciences of GeneXEnvironment Interactions in Asthma (Promising Genomics V. 2)

Date

Monday, 18 June
11 am - 1 pm

Presentation

Mike Fortun (Troy, NY)

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

Recipes and Ideas: Another Look at the Chymical Diptych of Theory and Practice

Presentation

Lawrence Principe (Johns Hopkins University)

Time

Monday, June 11
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin

Organizers

Research Group Dupré

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For further information, see this website.

Workshop

Colonial Subjects of Health and Difference: Races, Populations, Diversities

Date

June 11, 2012 - June 13, 2012

Organizers

Alexandra Widmer,
Veronika Lipphardt

Keynote Speaker

Warwick Anderson (University of Sydney)

Convenor

Max Planck Research Group “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century” (Veronika Lipphardt)

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Contact

Since space is limited, please contact Birgitta von Mallinckrodt

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Series Art Unlimited

Time between Physics and Art

Date

Monday, June 11, 2012
7 p.m.

Presentation

Peter Galison (Joseph Pellegrino University Professor in Physics and History of Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.)

Organizers

Akademie der Künste and Einstein Forum

Venue

Akademie der Künste,
Pariser Platz 4,
Berlin-Mitte

Workshop

The Measurement of Values

Date

June 7-9, 2012

Organizers

Organized by Stefan Bargheer

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room

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Talk

Vocal Codes: Lip-Reading and Early Signal Processing in the Telephone System

Date

Wednesday, June 6, 2012
3.30 p.m.

Presentation

Mara Mills (New York City)

Description

In the second half of the nineteenth century, oralism succeeded sign language at the majority of deaf schools in the United States. Drawing on “the German system,” American oral educators self-consciously attempted to move their field “from quackery to science.” Lip-reading, a central instrument of oral pedagogy, relied on insights from physiology and phonetics regarding the elemental vocal organs and the correlation of their gestures to sounds. By the first decades of the twentieth century, engineers at American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T) also became interested in the parameters of speech as they attempted to streamline transmission technology. In turn, they examined the radical simplification of speech by the technique of lip-reading. The inventor of the vocoder, for instance, shifted the representation of speech from the facsimile-waveform approach of the early telephone system to an “analysis-synthesis” method based on the lipreader’s assumption of underlying vocal codes. In this talk, I will discuss the oralist perspective on “the medium of speech” and “the mechanism of the vocal organs,” and I will trace the specific associations between AT&T and the New York area lip-reading community. I will also consider the politics of technology transfer, namely the movement of techniques from the domain of “assistive” technology to that of mainstream engineering.

Organizer

Sabine Arnaud

Venue

MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Seminar room 265

Seminar Series “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century”

On the Concepts of Race, Culture, and Human Genetic Variation in the Development of Personalized Medicine

Date

Thursday, 24 May
11 am - 1 pm

Presentation

Sarah Blacker (University of Alberta)

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

Series of Discussions “Global Transfer of Knowledge and the Globalization of Knowledge”

Individuals as Actors of Transfer of Knowledge

Time

Thursday, May 24, 2012
7 p.m.

Organizers

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in cooperation with the Forum Transregional Studies

Description

The Globalization of Knowledge has a long history. In four sessions of discussions with scholars from different disciplines it will be asked how transfer was achieved, which kinds of media were involved and in which spaces such processes took place.

Discussion

Andreas Eckert (Berlin)
Matthias Schemmel (Berlin)
Sonja Brentjes (Berlin)
Islam Dayeh (Berlin)

Venue

MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room

Notes

Visitors welcome

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Seminar Series “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century”

Monday, April 23, 2012
7 p.m.

Organizers

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in cooperation with the Forum Transregional Studies

Description

The Globalization of Knowledge has a long history. In four sessions of discussions with scholars from different disciplines it will be asked how transfer was achieved, which kinds of media were involved and in which spaces such processes took place.

Discussion

Yehuda Elkana (Berlin)
Mark Geller (Berlin)
Richard Rottenburg (Halle-Wittenberg)
Michael Allan (Eugene/Berlin)

Venue

MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room

Notes

Visitors welcome

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Press release (Universität Erfurt)

Colloquium “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”

What does it mean that ‘Space can be transcendental without the axioms being so’?

Presentation

Francesca Biagioli (Università di Torino)

Time

Thursday, April 19
3-5 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
room 265

Organizers

Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”

Notes

Please contact Vincenzo De Risi for any questions or registration.

Workshop

Population Diversities Past and Present: Stakes, Taboos, Genealogies

Date

Thursday, 19 April
10 am - 5 pm

Organizer

Historicizing Knowledge of Human Biological Diversity research group (Veronika Lipphardt)

Presentations

Joan Fujimura, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Amade M’charek, University of Amsterdam
Katharina Schramm, University of Halle/MPI for Social Anthropology
Sarah Blacker, University of Alberta

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Seminar room (005)

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please contact Alexandra Widmer

Berthold Leibinger Lecture

The Steam-Powered Gardens of Potsdam and Berlin: Projecting Industrial Culture into the Landscape

Date

Tuesday, April 17
7 pm

Organizer

The American Academy in Berlin

Presentation

M. Norton Wise (University of California Los Angeles)

Address

The American Academy in Berlin
Am Sandwerder 17-19
14109 Berlin

Contact

For more information, or if you would like to attend, please visit The American Academy’s website.

Workshop

Anthropologie und Ethnologie im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert

Date

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Description

Nature Manufactured: The Artisans’ Touch in Renaissaance Cabinets of Naturalia

Presentation

Valentina Pugliano (MPIWG and University of Oxford)

Representing “Remotio”: “Prospettiva” between Optics and Mathematics from Masolino to Alberti

Presentation

Pietro Roccasecca (Accademia Belle Arti Roma)

Time

Monday, December 12
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin

Organizers

Research Group Dupré

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For further information, see this website.

Talk

Genomic re-figurings of race and nation in Latin America

Time

Data – Difference – Diversity. Technologies of Differentiation in the Life Sciences

Date

November 24–26, 2011

Organizers

Susanne Bauer,
Christine Hanke (KHM Cologne),
Sabine Höhler (KTH Stockholm)

Convenor

Max Planck Research Group “Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century” (Veronika Lipphardt)

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”

Perspective Appropriated in 16th c. Southern German Artists‘ Booklets

Time

Thursday, November 24 from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. in the seminar room of the Villa, Harnack Straße 5.

Presentation

Jeanne Peiffer (Centre Alexandre Koyré)

Organizers

Research Group Dupré

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin

Institute's Colloquium

Spoken Word Theatre and the Architects of Sound, 1800/1900

Presentation

Endangerment and its Consequences

Time

October 14-15, 2011

June 26 – July 3, 2011

Directors

Janet Browne (Harvard), Christiane Groeben (Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin)

Address

Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
“Villa Dohrn”
Punta S. Pietro
80077 - Ischia, Napoli, Italy

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Website
Call for Papers

Dahlemer Archivgespräche

Die Entdeckung der nuklearen Energie. Forschungen in der Kaiser-Wilhelm- und der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft.

Presentation

Horst Kant

Time

June 20, 2011

Organizers

Archiv der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Address

Archive of the Max Planck Society
Boltzmannstr. 14
14195 Berlin

Notes

Including a guided tour of the archive's new rooms. Visitors welcome.

Institute's Colloquium

Resource Exchanges: The Kaiser Wilhelm-/Max Planck Society and Regime Changes in Germany – 1918/1933/1945/1990

Presentation

Series

Art meets science - Science meets art

Time

May 27, 2011
7.30 p.m.

Presentation

Peter Grünberg, Institut für Festkörperforschungs, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Nobel laureate in physics 2007

Contributors

Prof. Dr. Peter Grünberg (conduct, contra-guitar), Forschungszentrum Jülich, Peter Grünberg Institut
Dr. Julia Kursell (history of music therapy and acoustic), Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin
Gertraud Nader (alpine folklore hammered dulcimer), München
Prof. Keiko Hibi (vocals, hammered dulcimer), Toho Musik Hochschule Tokyo
Yukiko Naito-Fendrich (theory of harmony, piano), Stuttgart
Prof. Da Zhang (chinese music, chinese viola da gamba)
Peking-Jülich Peter Lohberg (jazz guitar), Frankfurt
Prof. Dr. Karlheinz Brandenburg (modern recording and rendition MP3), llmenau

Address

Urania Berlin e.V.
An der Urania 17
10787 Berlin

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15 €,
reduced 13 €,
members of Urania 10 €

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Urania

Book Presentation

“Histories of Scientific Observation”

Time

Thursday, may 26, 2011
8.30 p.m.

Presentation

Lorraine Daston (MPIWG) is interviewed by Friedrich Steinle (TU)

Address

Buchhandlung pro qm
Almstadtstr. 48-50
10119 Berlin
U-Bahnhof Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (U2)

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Exhibition opening

“Botanische Weltbilder”

Date

23.05.2011

Event

“2. Gothaer Kartenwochen” & exhibition “Botanische Weltbilder. Oscar Drude und die pflanzen-geografischen Karten der Sammlung Perthes”

Organizers

Nils Güttler (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin),
Petra Weigel (Sammlung Perthes, Forschungsbibliothek Gotha)

Presentation

Nils Güttler, “Die Zeichenschule des ‘Meisters der Vegetationskarte.’ Oscar Drude und die Botanischen Weltbilder des Perthes Verlages”

Place

Spiegelsaal der Forschungsbibliothek auf Schloss Friedenstein, D-99867 Gotha

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Workshop

Ritual and Technology in East Asia

Organizers

Grace Yen Shen and Dagmar Schäfer, Independent Research Group Concepts and Modalities

Time

May 12-14, 2011

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Institute's Colloquium

“Grundlagenforschung.” Zum Wandel des Selbstbildes der Kaiser-Wilhelm/Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in den ersten Jahren des Kalten Krieges

Presentation

Carola Sachse (Wien)

Time

May 11, 2011
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Organizer

Dieter Hoffmann

Address

Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Workshop

Transliteration and Transfiguration of Cultural Traditions: Archaeology, Medical Knowledge, Art, and Science

Time

March 18–19, 2011

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This workshop is the result of ongoing scientific cooperation of Max Planck Institutes with the Mongolian Academy of the Sciences and the National University of Mongolia. The central theme will be the transliteration and transfiguration of cultural traditions and their significance in the historic development of the globalization of knowledge, with a special focus on Mongolian cultural heritage and traditions. It will be systematically analyzed by means of examples provided by Mongolian and Western scholars.

Organizers

Jürgen Renn, Simone Rieger, Urs Schoepflin

Presentation

A. Leendertz (München)

Time

February 16, 2011
3 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Martin-Gropius-Bau
Program

Organizer

Dieter Hoffmann

Colloquium

1. Berliner Kolloquium für Digital Humanities - Berlin 02/10

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Presentation

Program

Im Rahmen der Veranstaltungen zum Jubliäumsjahr bieten Berliner Max-Planck-Institute Rundgänge durch ihre Wissenschaftsbauten.

Time

9. Januar 2011
MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22, Berlin-Dahlem
12 und 14 Uhr

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Eintritt frei
Nur nach Voranmeldung: mpgberlin@gv.mpg.de
Tel.: 030 4990 5646

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Workshop

Time

Ocotber 5, 2010
10.00 a.m. -6.00 p.m.

Topic

Symposion in cooperation with the Exhibition "Weltwissen - 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin" in the Martin-Gropius-Bau

Participants

Jochen Henning (Head of Exhibition Team WeltWissen), Thomas Schnalke (Berliner Medizinhistorisches Museum), Horst Bredekamp (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin), Konstanze Weltersbach (ETH Zürich), Hans Jörg Rheinberger (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte), Reinhard Wendler (Technische Universität Berlin/Eikones, Basel), Henning Meyer (space 4), Helmuth Trischler (Deutsches Museum München), Michael Krausnick (Kurator WeltWissen), Claudio Pogliano (Università di Pisa), Michael Hagner (ETH Zürich), Fabian Krämer (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte), Lorraine Daston (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)

Organizers

Max-Planck-Research Network History of Scientific Objects

Address

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Niederkirchnerstraße 7/ Stresemannstr. 110
10963 Berlin

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Contact

Hannah Lotte Lund
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Panel Discussion (in German)

Objekt-Salon: Die Ordnung der Dinge

Time

October 4, 2010
6.00-8.00 p.m.

Topic

Öffentliche Podiumsdiskussion zur Klassifizierung von Objekten in Kunst und Wissenschaft, in Verbindung mit der Ausstellung "Weltwissen - 300 Jahre Wissenschaften in Berlin"

Participants

Mark Dion (Object Art WeltWissen), Gerd Grasshoff (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin/Universität Bern), Bettina Habsburg - Lothringen (Museumsakademie Joanneum), Hermann Parzinger (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz), Jürgen Renn (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte)
Moderation: Dorothee Nolte (Der Tagesspiegel)

Organizers

Max-Planck-Researchnetwork "History of Scientific Objects"

Address

Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Niederkirchnerstraße 7/Stresemannstr. 110
10963 Berlin

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Martin-Gropius-Bau
Program

Contact

Hannah Lotte Lund

Seminar Series

Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century

Presentation

Jonathan Marks: Are you really an ape? The scientific construction of ancestry

Time

August 17th, 2010
02:00 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room of Department III (265)

Contact

Birgitta von Mallinckrodt

Workshop

Historical roots of quantum gravity research

Time

August 10-12, 2010

Location

Pasadena, USA

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A joint workshop of the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science and the Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology.
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Conference

Conceptual Change in Biological Science: Evolutionary Developmental Biology, 1981-2011

Time

July 15-18, 2010

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Presentation

John Gascoigne: The Globe Encompassed: France and Pacific Convergences in the Age of the Enlightenment

Time

June 3, 2010
2.00 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte – Room 265
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Contact

Susanne Bauer

Workshop Discussion Series

Technological Cultures: Themes and Methods in the History of Technology

Date

01.06.2010

Presentation

Karin Zachmann (TU München, Zentralinstitut für Geschichte der Technik)
(Cold War) Technologies: Political Constructs, Material Practices, Cultural Meanings

Organizers

June 1, 2010
3.00–5.00 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Contact

Gina Grzimek

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Workshop

Body Montage: Cultures of Corporeal Dis/Assembling, 1900-1933

Time

May 27–29, 2010

Presentation

Montage is a twentieth-century concept that cuts across a complex terrain of practices, from industrial production to the medium of film, from WWI to the Dadaists’ critical collages, from the rationalization movement to rehabilitation medicine. The topic of montage provides a genuinely post-human and deconstructionist access to modernity, which goes beyond the dispositive of rationalization and fundamentally questions the idea of the human. The workshop will explore this theme across various areas of corporeal construction, such as surgery, prosthesis, film, workplace efficiency, industrial production, aesthetics, architecture, and entertainment culture. Already in the early twentieth century, the human was no longer a sacrosanct unity, but had become an object of manipulation, adjustment, optimization, and enhancement.

Time

May 6–8, 2010

Presentation

The 2010 Berlin workshop is a follow-up of the 2009 Budapest symposium "Communicating Science in 20th Century Europe: Comparative Perspectives" (documentation: MPIWG-Preprint 385). It is meant to discuss pre-circulated drafts of argument for specific case studies as well as to develop more generally a common background for understanding ways and mechanisms of political shaping of public presentations and discourses on science. Therefore part of the meeting will serve the purpose that the participants simply introduce one another to the main political and cultural strands of influence on 20C science communication in the respective nations before particular cases are discussed.

Organizers

Dr. Arne Schirrmacher

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Arne Schirrmacher

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Institute's Colloquium

From Field Surveys to Biobanks. A History of Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity

Time

May 5, 2010
3.00–4.30 p.m.

Presentation

Susanne Bauer (MPIWG), Alexandra Widmer (MPIWG) and Veronika Lipphardt (MPIWG)

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Workshop Discussion Series

Technological Cultures: Themes and Methods in the History of Technology

Presentation

Gregory K. Clancey (National University of Singapore)
Perspectives on Technology: Towards a History of Emergency

Time

April 6, 2010
3.00–5.00 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Contact

Gina Grzimek

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Institute's Colloquium

The "Ballet of the Crutches": Photography, Body Function and Rationalized Fracture Care (WWI and 1920s Vienna)

Time

March 24, 2010
3.00–4.30 p.m.

Presentation

Thomas Schlich (McGill University, Montreal)

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Workshop

Sciences of Communication

Time

Galilei und die erste Revolution der Physik

Time

February 9, 2010
7.30 p.m.

Presentation

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn:
Die Begründung der neuzeitlichen Mechanik war die erste Revolution der Physik und bedeutete zugleich das Ende des aristotelischen Weltbildes und den Anfang der modernen Wissenschaft. Prof. Renn geht der Frage nach, ob diese Revolution ein Paradigmenwechsel oder eine Transformation des überlieferten Wissens war. Im Zentrum steht dabei das Werk Galileo Galileis, das sich nach neuesten Forschungen als weniger einzigartig und isoliert erweist als bisher angenommen. Anhand zentraler Begriffe der Mechanik beleuchtet Prof. Renn die Transformationsprozesse, die zu neuen Einsichten führen, eröffnet uns ein neues Verständnis für die Struktur wissenschaftlicher Revolutionen.

Address

Urania Berlin e. V.
An der Urania 17
10787 Berlin

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reduced 5,00 €

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Urania Website

Workshop

The Ur Science

Time

January 29-30, 2010

Organizers

Lorraine Daston (MPIWG/University of Chicago) and Glenn Most (Scuola Normale Pisa/University of Chicago) MPIWG-University of Chicago Cooperation: History of the Human Sciences

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Contact

Regina Held

Workshop

Ways of Voyaging through the Human Body. A Multimedia Survey

Time

January 27, 2010

Organizers

Research Network "History of Scientific Objects"

Cooperation

University of Pisa

Address

Max Planck Institut for the History of Science (Room 265)
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Our attention will focus on the leitmotiv of the Voyage through the human body, which has often been played in the last few decades from different viewpoints, with various aims and outcomes. As for the beginning – although a ‘prehistory’ should be traced in medical writings and in generale literature – 1966 is apparently the crucial year. A science fiction film (Fantastic Voyage) was then directed by Richard Fleischer : a typical Cold War plot based on some special technology that allowed matter to be miniaturized and consequently a microscopic submarine crew to enter inside the body of the scientist who invented the shrinking process. The movie holds the distinction of being the first to deal with the concept of “inner space” : in doing so, it created a new sub-genre. It inspired, among other things, parodies, an animated TV series, a painting by Salvador Dalí, and a double novelization made by Isaac Asimov, up to 1987....

Links

Website Research Network "History of Scientific Objects"
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Note

The workshop is open to the interested public. Please register with the coordinator: Hannah Lotte Lund

Workshop Discussion Series

Technological Cultures: Themes and Methods in the History of Technology

Presentation

Roundtable
About Rules and Standards: Defining the Validity of Work and its Products
Christian Lamouroux (EHESS, France/CNRS, Beijing), Social Historian (Song Dynasty), worked on "water-management," the organization of handicraft, the definition of “work”, and fakes.

Christine Moll-Murata (University of Bochum), Historian/Sinologist (Qing Dynasty), worked on local history, handicraft regulations, standardization, and copying.

Time

January 26, 2010
3.00–5.00 p.m.

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

Contact

Gina Grzimek

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Workshop

Challenging Objects

Time

January 21–23, 2010

Organizers

Jochen Büttner and Jürgen Renn

Workshop organized in the framework of the Max Planck International Research Network "History of Scientific Objects"

Cooperation

TU Berlin, Innovationszentrum Wissensforschung

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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This Workshop is open to the interested public. For registration and information please contact Hannah Lotte Lund

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Poster
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Website International Research Network "History of Scientific Objects"

Workshop Discussion Series

Technological Cultures: Themes and Methods in the History of Technology

Presentation

Morris Low (University of Queensland): Technological Culture in Meiji Japan

Time

December 9, 2009
7 p.m.

Participants

Peter Berz (Universität Wien), Pamela Kort (Curator-in-Residence MPIWG), Winfried Menninghaus (Freie University), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Director, MPIWG), Barbara Wittmann (Research Fellow, MPIWG)

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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Barbara Wittmann

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Abstract

Conference

Performing Voices between Embodiment and Mediation

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Website

Contact

Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: Tina Plokarz

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Theme

Die Materialität der Konstruktion. Graphische Verfahren der Welterzeugung

Info

Kolloquium der Forschungsinitiative »Wissen im Entwurf« am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin und dem Kunsthistorischen Institut (Max-Planck-Institut) in Florenz in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut für Kunstgeschichte, Universität Wien

Time

November 12–13, 2009

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More informationen on the project:
www.knowledge-in-the-making.de
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Institute's Colloquium

The Animals' Turn?

Time

November 4, 2009
3.00–4.30 p.m.

Presentation

Harriet Ritvo (History Faculty, MIT)

Address

Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin

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