Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

Workshop Discussion Series

Technological Cultures: Themes and Methods in the History of Technology

Presentation
Nina Lerman (Whitman College):
Working Title: Technology: Defined by Exclusion?
Time
February 16, 2010
3.00–5.00 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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.
Presentation
Peter Schöttler (CNRS, Paris)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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
 

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
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Workshop Discussion Series

Technological Cultures: Themes and Methods in the History of Technology

Presentation
Suzanne Moon (University of Oklahoma):
A Strong Multiculturalism: De-centering the Themes in the History of Technology
Time
March 16, 2010
3.00–5.00 p.m.
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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Workshop

Sciences of Communication

Time
March 18–20, 2010
Organizers
Tania Munz, Veronika Lipphardt
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
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.
Presentation
Thomas Schlich (McGill University, Montreal)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

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
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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.
Presentation
Staffan Müller-Wille (University of Exeter)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

Workshop

Artisanal-Scientific Experts in Eighteenth-century France and Germany

Time
April 23–24, 2010
Organizers
Ursula Klein, MPIWG and Bruno Belhoste, Sorbonne
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
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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.
Presentation
Susanne Bauer (MPIWG), Alexandra Widmer (MPIWG) and Veronika Lipphardt (MPIWG)
Address
Max Planck Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Boltzmannstr. 22
14195 Berlin
 

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
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Institute's Colloquium

Euripus: on the limits and instabilities of Early Modern knowledge

Time
June 9, 2010
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
 

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
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More information can be found at the conference Website
 

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
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