Conference
Performing Voices between Embodiment and Mediation
Time
December 4–6, 2009
Cooperation
American Academy in Rome and Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Organizers
Martin Brody, Julia Kursell and Andreas Mayer
Address
American Academy in Rome
Via Angelo Masina 5
00153 Roma
Italy
Via Angelo Masina 5
00153 Roma
Italy
Contact
Registration is necessary for this conference. Please send an e-mail to: Tina Plokarz
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Roundtable Discussion (in German)
The Survival of the Prettiest? Evolution, Kunst und Ästhetik nach Darwin
Time
December 9, 2009
7 p.m.
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
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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Institute's Colloquium
"La Technésthetique": A Physico-Spiritualist Reading of French Romanticism
Time
December 16, 2009
3.00–4.30 p.m.
3.00–4.30 p.m.
Presentation
John Tresch (University of Pennsylvania)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Workshop
Documenting the World
Time
January 8–9, 2010
Organizers
Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University Leicester) and Gregg Mitman (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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Institute's Colloquium
Snow-Crystals, for instance. Aspects of the chemical and optical differentiation of the photographic recording process from 1839 through 1900.
Time
January 13, 2010
3.00–4.30 p.m
3.00–4.30 p.m
Presentation
Herta Wolf (Univ. Duisburg-Essen)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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Institute's Colloquium
From Comte to Carnap. Fresh Perspectives on the Vienna Circle in France
Time
February 24, 2010
3.00–4.30 p.m.
3.00–4.30 p.m.
Presentation
Peter Schöttler (CNRS, Paris)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Concert Talk
"Play it again"
Time
March 4, 2010
Theme
Concert Talk about the Violin Sonata by Cesar Franck
Cooperation
Berliner Musikinstrumenten-Museum and Gerhard Herrgott
Address
Berliner Musikinstrumenten-Museum
Tiergartenstraße 1
10785 Berlin
Entrance from Ben-Gurion-Straße
Tiergartenstraße 1
10785 Berlin
Entrance from Ben-Gurion-Straße
Workshop
The Strangelovean Science Or: Rationality versus Reason
Time
March 15–16, 2010
Organizers
Lorraine Daston (MPIWG) and Michael Gordin (Princeton University)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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Workshop
Sciences of Language
Time
March 18–20, 2010
Organizers
Tania Munz
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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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.
3.00–4.30 p.m.
Presentation
Thomas Schlich (McGill University, Montreal)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Institute's Colloquium
Annotating the System of Nature: Carl Linnaeus (1707-1778) and the Uses of Writing Technologies
Time
April 21, 2010
3.00–4.30 p.m.
3.00–4.30 p.m.
Presentation
Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Institue'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.
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
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Institute's Colloquium
Euripus: on the limits and instabilities of Early Modern knowledge
Time
June 9, 2010
3.00–4.30 p.m.
3.00–4.30 p.m.
Presentation
Nick Wilding (Georgia State University/American Academy in Rome)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference
HQ-3 Third International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics
Time
June 28 – July 2, 2010
Organizers
Massimiliano Badino, Christian Joas, Christoph Lehner, Jürgen Renn
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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Workshop
Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries: interstices in the history of science, technology and culture
Time
October 7-9, 2010
Organizers
Mathias Grote, Laura Otis and Max Stadler
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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