Institute's Colloquium
The Place of Mohist Science in a Long-Term History of Knowledge
Presentation
Matthias Schemmel
Time
May 23, 2012
3 p.m.
3 p.m.
Address
Max-Planck-Institute for the history of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Organizer
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
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)
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.
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)
Matthias Schemmel (Berlin)
Sonja Brentjes (Berlin)
Islam Dayeh (Berlin)
Venue
MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
Notes
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Vocal Codes: Lip-Reading and Early Signal Processing in the Telephone System
Date
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
3.30 p.m.
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
Organized by Sabine Arnaud
Venue
MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Seminar room 265
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Seminar room 265
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.
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Workshop
Colonial Subjects of Health and Difference: Races, Populations, Diversities
Date
June 11, 2012 - June 13, 2012
Organizers
Alexandra Widmer,
Veronika Lipphardt
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
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Contact
Since space is limited, please contact Birgitta von Mallinckrodt
Series Art Unlimited
Time between Physics and Art
Date
Monday, June 11, 2012
7 p.m.
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
Pariser Platz 4,
Berlin-Mitte
Series of Discussions “Global Transfer of Knowledge and the Globalization of Knowledge”
Transfer of Knowledge in Systems
Time
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
7 p.m.
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
Marianne Braig (Berlin)
Jens Braarvig (Oslo)
Gerd Graßhoff (Berlin)
N.N.
Jens Braarvig (Oslo)
Gerd Graßhoff (Berlin)
N.N.
Venue
MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
Notes
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Institute's Colloquium
Situating the Brain Between the Natural Science and Humanities
Presentation
Suparna Choudhury/Felicity Callard
Time
June 20, 2012
3 p.m.
3 p.m.
Address
Max-Planck-Institute for the history of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Organizer
Conference
Physik, Philosophie und Friedensforschung
Subtitle
Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker-Conference of the Leopoldina
Time
June 20-22, 2012
Venue
Leopoldina
Jägerberg 1
06108 Halle (Saale)
Jägerberg 1
06108 Halle (Saale)
Organizers
Dieter Hoffmann (MPIWG),
Klaus Hentschel (University of Stuttgart)
Klaus Hentschel (University of Stuttgart)
Program
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
The Glass Puzzle. (Al)chemical Theories on Vitrification
Presentation
Marco Beretta (University of Bologna)
Time
Monday, July 2
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
4 p.m. - 6 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Villa
Harnackstraße 5
14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group Dupré
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Lecture Series “Kunst und Technik”
Gemalte Juwelen. Portraitminiatur und Farbtheorie im 17. Jahrhundert
Date
Wednesday, July 4, 2012
6.15 p.m.
6.15 p.m.
Presentation
Karin Leonhard (Berlin)
Venue
Technische Universität Berlin
Straße des 17. Juni 150-52
10623 Berlin
auditorium A 053
Straße des 17. Juni 150-52
10623 Berlin
auditorium A 053
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.
6.30 p.m.
Presentation
Lorraine Daston (Berlin)
Venue
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Jägerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin
Jägerstr. 22/23
10117 Berlin
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
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
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
CFP
Series of Discussions “Global Transfer of Knowledge and the Globalization of Knowledge”
Institutions and the Transfer of Knowledge
Time
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
7 p.m.
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)
Dhruv Raina (New Delhi/Berlin)
Viola König (Berlin)
Pietro Daniel Omodeo (Berlin)
Venue
MPIWG
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
Notes
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Conference
Perspective as Practice
Date
October 12-13, 2012
Full title
Perspective as Practice.
An international conference on the circulation of optical knowledge in and outside the workshop
An international conference on the circulation of optical knowledge in and outside the workshop
Organizer
Sven Dupré, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin & Jeanne Peiffer, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Address
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Further Information
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
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
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
Organizers
Organized by Sabine Arnaud
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
Conference room
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