New Call for Papers for the conference “Perspective as Practice.”

New publications: Suparna Choudhury, Research Scholar at the MPIWG, has published “Critical neuroscience: a handbook of the social and cultural contexts of neuroscience.” Jaume Navarro, former Visiting Scholar at the MPIWG, has published “Science and faith within reason: reality, creation, life and design.”

New publication: Dieter Hoffmann, research scholar at the MPIWG, has published “The German Physical Society and the Third Reich: physicists between autonomy and accommodation.”

Call for Papers for the workshop “Knowledge In a Box: How Mundane Things Shape Knowledge Production” (July 26-29, 2012).

New preprint: Frank W. Stahnisch has published “The emergence of Nervennahrung: Nerves, mind and metabolism in the long eighteenth century” (Preprint 421).

New publication: Sven Dupré, Max Planck Research Group Director at the MPIWG, has co-published “From earth-bound to satellite: telescopes, skills and networks.”

New publication: Dagmar Schäfer, former director of a Max Planck Research Group at the MPWIG, has published the edited book “Cultures of Knowledge: Technology in Chinese History.”

Prize: Jürgen Renn, Executive Director at the MPIWG, has received the “Premio Anassilaos International 2011.”

The MPIWG mourns the loss of Peter Damerow, long-time member of the institute. A memorial website and online condolence book have been created.

New Directory for the History of Science in Berlin.

New Announcements for pre- and postdoctoral fellowships, writing-up-fellowships and student assistant positions.

New publication: Dieter Hoffmann has co-authored a monograph on the history of the Max Planck Society's Fritz Haber Institute.

New preprints: Albert Presas i Puig (ed.), “A Comparative Study of European Nuclear Energy Programs” and Mathias Grote & Max Stadler (eds.), “Membranes Surfaces Boundaries. Interstices in the History of Science, Technology and Culture.”

New publication: Helge Wendt, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Dpt. I, has published “Die missionarische Gesellschaft: Mikrostrukturen einer kolonialen Globalisierung.”

Course List: In cooperation with the Berlin universities, the MPIWG has published the new “Berliner Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wissenschaftsgeschichte.”

Call for Papers for the workshop “Colonial Subjects of Health and Difference: Races, Populations, Diversities” (June 11-13, 2012).

New publication: Sven Dupré, Research Group leader at the MPIWG, has published “Silent Messengers. The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries.”

New publication in the Open Access Series “Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge:” Elio Nenci, Research Scholar at the MPIWG, has published “Bernardino Baldi's In mechanica Aristotelis problemata exercitationes.”

New Publication: Miki Elazar, Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the MPIWG, has published “Honoré Fabri and the concept of impetus : a bridge between conceptual frameworks.”

New Publication: Alexander Marr, former guest at the MPIWG, has published “Between Raphael and Galileo: Mutio Oddi and the mathematical culture of late Renaissance Italy.”

New coverage: Interviews with Lorraine Daston and Jürgen Renn, directors of the MPIWG, have been broadcast on Deutschlandfunk and Deutsche Welle.

New Publication: Vincenzo de Risi, Research Group Director at the MPIWG, has published “Saccheri, Gerolamo: Euclide vendicato da ogni neo.”

Dieter Hoffmann, research scholar at the MPIWG, is newly elected member of the Leopoldina (History of Science and Medicine Section).

New Announcements for a secretary and two student assistant positions.

New Book: A new publication “Linguistic Issues in Encoding Sanscrit” by our late colleague Malcolm Hyman was published in February 2011.

New Publication: Christer Nordlund, researcher at the MPIWG, has published “Hormones of life : endocrinology, the pharmaceutical industry, and the dream of a remedy for sterility, 1930-1970.”

New Announcements for a predoctoral fellowship and four student assistant positions.

New Publication in the Open Access Series “Max Planck Research Library for the History and Development of Knowledge” : The Max Planck Society together with the Gesellschaft Deutscher Naturforscher und Ärzte has published an electronic version of “Herausforderung Energie.”

Science in “Germany's Oxford”, a tour of the science quarter of Berlin-Dahlem

Award: Matteo Valleriani, research fellow at the MPIWG, will receive the Paul-Bunge-Prize 2011 for his book "Galileo Engineer".

New Publication: Dagmar Schäfer, Max Planck Research Group Director at the MPIWG, has edited "The court and the localities: Technological knowledge circulation in the seventeenth and eighteenth century China" (in Chinese).

New announcements for two doctoral stipends, one writing-up fellowship, one student assistant and one trainee for information scientist.

Course List: The MPIWG has co-published with the Berlin Universities the new "Berliner Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wissenschaftsgeschichte".

New website about the cooperations in the history of knowledge in Berlin informs about upcoming events, courses at the universities in the next semester and researchers in Berlin.

New fellowships for postdoctoral fellows (Research Group directed by Vincenzo di Risi) and for predoctoral scholars (Department 2 directed by Lorraine Daston) announced.

New preprints published by Ilana Löwy on "Microscopic Slides", Viktor J. Frenkel on the physicist Friedrich Houtermans, and André L. Blum, John Michael Krois und Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on "Verkörperungen".

New publication Susanne Lehmann-Brauns, former doctoral student at the MPIWG, has published her monograph "Jerusalem sehen: Reiseberichte des 12. bis 15. Jahrhunderts als empirische Anleitung zur geistigen Pilgerfahrt".

New announcements for a research fellow position and a postdoctoral fellowship for the new Max Planck Research Group (directed by Sven Dupré) and for writing-up fellowships for doctoral students in Department 2 (directed by Lorraine Daston).

New Call for Papers for the Ischia Summer School 2011.

New call for papers for the workshop "Neuro-Reality Check: Scrutinizing the 'Neuro-Turn' in the Humanities and Natural Sciences".

MPIWG honors Hans-Jörg Rheinberger on the occasion of his 65th birthday with a colloquium.

Bibliography of works by Hans-Jörg Rheinberger is now accessible online.

New Announcements for student assistant positions.

New publications by Andreas Whütrich on "The Genesis of the Feynman diagrams" and Monika Wulz on "Erkenntnisagenten: Gaston Bachelard und die Reorganisation des Wissens".

Award: Milena Wazeck, research fellow at the MPIWG until October 2010, has received the Award of the "Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik".

New Publication: Margareta Tillberg has published the monograph "A new deal: post-soviet realities meet welfare state models".

New Fellowship: The new Max Planck Research Group "Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space", directed by Vincenzo di Risi, announced a call for applications for a postdoctoral fellowship.

New Publication: New Monograph published by Thomas Schlich, former visiting fellow at the MPIWG, on "The origins of organ transplantation: surgery and laboratory science, 1880-1930".

Award: Matteo Valleriani, research fellow at the MPIWG, will receive the Marc-Auguste-Pictet-Prize 2010 for his book "Galileo Engineer".

Call for Papers for the workshop "Endangerment and its Consequences" (7-8 October 2011).

Award: Dieter Hoffmann, research fellow at the MPIWG, has received the "Ehrennadel" of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft. More

New announcements for fellowships for the Max Planck Research Group directed by Dagmar Schäfer and for a junior research scholar position for the department directed by Lorraine Daston.

New Preprint by Tobias Breidenmoser, Fynn Ole Engler, Günther Jirikowski, Michael Pohl and Dieter G. Weiss on "Transformation of Scientific Knowledge in Biology: Changes in our Understanding of the Living Cell through Microscopic Imaging" has been published and can be ordered (No. 408).

New Publication: Karin Krauthausen and Omar Nasim have published the edited volume "Notieren, Skizzieren: Schreiben und Zeichnen als Verfahren des Entwurfs" (= Wissen im Entwurf, vol. 3).

Award: Exhibition "Split+Splice: Fragments From the Age of Biomedicine", co-curated by Susanne Bauer, research fellow at the MPIWG, has received the "Dibner Award for Excellence in Museum Exhibits 2010".

The new Annual Report of the MPIWG for 2008/2009 is published and can be downloaded or ordered.

New Preprints by Francesca Bordogna (No. 404), Christoph Hoffmann and Alexandre Métraux (No. 405), and Karin Krauthausen (No. 406) can be ordered.

Course List: The MPIWG has co-published with the Berlin Universities the new "Berliner Vorlesungsverzeichnis Wissenschaftsgeschichte".

Award: Lorraine Daston, director at the MPIWG, receives the German Federal Cross of Merit

New Book: Matteo Valleriani, research fellow at the MPIWG, has published his monograph "Galileo Engineer".

New Postdoc-Fellowships are announced.

New Book: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, director at the MPIWG, has published his book "On Historicizing Epistemology".

Architecture: the Edition Axel Menges has published a volume on the architecture of the Institute’s building.

New Jobs and Stipends for a research fellow, the Lorenz-Krüger-Postdoc-Fellowship, a visiting-fellowship and a student assistant position.

New Preprints by Matthias Schemmel on Medieval Representations of Change and Their Early Modern Application (No. 402) and by Frank W. Stahnisch on German-Speaking Émigré Neuroscientists in North America after 1933: Critical Reflections on Emigration-Induced Scientific Change (No. 403) were published.

New Publication: Dieter Hoffmann, research fellow at the MPIWG, has published the edited volume "Max Planck und die moderne Physik".

New Preprint by Angela Matyssek on "Überleben und Restaurierung. Barnett Newmans Who’s afraid of Red, Yellow, and Blue III und Cathedra" (No. 398). It can be ordered for free.

New Publication: Katja Bödeker and Carmen Hammer have published the edited volume: "Wunderforschung: Ein Experiment von Kindern, Wissenschaftlern und Künstlern" as part of a MPIWG-exhibition project.

New job and stipend openings for a research fellow for the project "History of the biomedical institutes in Berlin-Buch" and fellowships for visiting fellows (research group "Historicizing Knowledge About Human Biological Diversity in the 20th century").

New Publication: Michael Gordin, Visiting Scholar at the MPIWG, has published his monograph "Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly".

Award: Henning Schmidgen, research fellow at the MPIWG, has received the Paul-Bunge-Preis 2010.

New Publication: Erika Milam, postdoctoral fellow at the MPIWG in 2007 and 2008, has published her monograph on: "Looking for a Few Good Males: Female Choice in Evolutionary Biology".

New Preprint by Fynn Ole Engler, Björn Henning and Karsten Böger on "Transformationen der wissenschaftlichen Philosophie und ihre integrative Kraft – Wolfgang Köhler, Otto Neurath und Moritz Schlick" published (No. 396); it can be downloaded for free.

Award: Peter McLaughlin, visiting scholar at the MPIWG, has received the Margherita-von-Brentano-Preis 2009.

Award: Lorraine Daston, director at the MPIWG, receives the medal Pour le Mérite.

New Preprints published: Luis Campos and Alexander von Schwerin (eds.), Making Mutations: Objects, Practices, Contexts (No. 393), and Volkmar Schüller, Some Remarks on Prop. VIII Probl. II of Newton’s Opticks Book I Part I (No. 394).

Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, director at the MPIWG, has published a review of Darwins anniversary year in 2009 in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

New Publication: Ursula Klein has edited with Emma C. Spary a working group volume on "Materials and Expertise in Early Modern Europe: Between Market and Laboratory."

New Preprint by Tamás Demeter on "Hume's Experimental Method" published (No. 395) and can be ordered.

New Publication: Arne Schirrmacher, research scholar at the MPIWG, has published a critical edition of Philipp Lenards Autobiography.

New Preprint by Ana Barahona, Edna Suarez-Díaz, and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (editors) on "Hereditary Hourglass. Genetics and Epigenetics, 1868-2000" (No. 392) can be downloaded.

New edited volume: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger has published with David Hyder "Science and the Life-World: Essays on Husserl's Crisis of the European Sciences".

Call for Papers for the 5th Scholar's Forum for Literature and the History of Science.

Course List: The MPIWG has co-published a course list on the history of science at the Berlin universitites.

Six new book publications by research fellows of the MPIWG.

New Preprints by Alfred Gierer, Horst Nowacki, Jens Hoyrup, Horst-Heino v. Borzeszkowski & Renate Wahsner have been published (no. 388-391).

Call for papers for the workshop "Human Heredity in the Twentieth Century" (September 2010).

New Preprint published and can be ordered for free: Thomas Sturm / Uljana Feest: What (Good) is Historical Epistemology? (No. 386)

New "Writing-Up"-Fellowships for Predocs (Dpt. 2 / Prof. Lorraine Daston) and more recent fellowship announcements and job offers.

New Preprint by Christoph Hoffmann and Lidia Westermann on Gottfried Benns Literaturreferate in der Berliner Klinischen Wochenschrift. Faksimileabdruck und Einführung (No. 387) can be ordered for free.

The MPIWG joins other Max-Planck-Institutes in Berlin celebrating the Science Year 2010. The Max-Planck-Society published a

Call for Applications for the "First European Advanced Seminar in the Philosophy of the Life Sciences" (September 6-10, 2010).

Call for papers for Machines of Memory. The Archival Technologies and the Genealogy of “Datapower” (17th- 20th century).

New preprint edited by Arne Schirrmacher on "Communicating Science in 20th Century Europe. A Survey on Research and Comparative Perspectives".

New Postdoctoral Fellowships and Senior Research Scholarships for Independent Research Group "Concepts and Modalities: Practical Konwledge Transmission" available.

New Preprint published by Arie Krampf on "Translation of central banking to developing countries in the postwar period: The Case of the Bank of Israel" (No. 383) and can be downloaded.

Job offer for direction of an Independent MPG-Research Group with Professorship for the History of Knowledge at the Freie University (deadline November 19, 2009), and other offers.

MPIWG is cooperating with the Universität Jena and other Max-Planck-Institutes in the 3D-digitization of the Hilprecht-Collection.

Call for Papers for the workshop "Membranes, Surfaces and Boundaries: interstices in the history of science, technology and culture"

Call for papers for HQ-3 Third International Conference on the History of Quantum Physics that will take place at the MPIWG (June 28–July 2, 2010).

Prize: Veronika Lipphardt, Research Group Director at the MPIWG, has received the Award of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Geschichte der Medizin, Naturwissenschaft und Technik.

New Job offer for direction of an Independent MPG-Research Group with Professorship for the History of Knowledge at the Freie University, and other offers for postdoctoral and doctoral stipends.

Prize: Milena Wazeck, research fellow at the MPIWG; has received the Georg-Uschmann-Preis for the History of Science of the Leopoldina.

New Preprint published Fabian Krämer on "The Persistent Image of an Unusual Centaur", Tania Munz on The "Multiple Uses of Geese in Konrad Lorenz’s Animal Behavior Studies" and Jose Pacheco on "The mathematician Norberto Cuesta Dutarirecovered from oblivion" can be ordered for free or downloaded.

Call for Papers for the workshop of the Gender Studies of Science-Project: "Using and Producing Science beyond the Academy"

New Series: The first two edited volumes of the project "knowledge-in-the-making", a cooperation of MPIWG and the KHI, have been published.

New Preprint by Ludmila Hyman on "Vygotsky on Scientific Observation" (Preprint No. 375) can be downloaded now.

New Publication: Horst Nowacki and Wolfgang Lefèvre, both researcher at the MPIWG, have published "Creating Shapes in Naval and Civil Architecture".

New Publication: Milena Wazeck, a research scholar of the MPIWG, has published her study of Einstein's opponents.

New Preprint by Anna Holterhoff on "Naturwissenschaft versus Religion? Zum Verhältnis von Theologie und Kosmologie im 18. Jahrhundert" (Preprint No. 376) can be downloaded now.

New Publication: Hans-Jörg Rheinberger and Staffan Müller-Wille have published their book "Das Gen im Zeitalter der Postgenomik: eine wissenschaftshistorische Bestandsaufnahme"

New Publication: Barbara Wittmann, MPIWG research fellow, has edited the book "Spuren erzeugen: Zeichnen und Schreiben als Verfahren der Selbstaufzeichnung."

Four presentations of the Neuroculture Workshop (February 2009) are now available online.

New Publication: Oliver Schlaudt, former MPIWG predoctoral fellow in 2008, has published the edited volume "Die Quantifizierung der Natur: klassische Texte der Messtheorie von 1696 bis 1999."

New Publication: Emmanuel Didier, MPIWG postdoctoral fellow in 2006, has published his book "En quoi consiste l'Amérique: les statistiques, le New Deal et la démocratie"

New Publication: Claudia Bührig, MPIWG research scholar until 2005, has published her study of Late Roman monumental arches.

Apply for a "writing-up" fellowship for predoctoral scholars 2009-10 at the MPIWG.

New Publication: Kelley Wilder, MPIWG-research fellow until 2008, has published her book "Photography and Science".

New Publication: Jean-Francois Braunstein, Visiting Scholar at the MPIWG in 2008, has published "La philosophie de médicine d'Auguste Comte".

In our discussion platform, researchers discuss new ways of using digital images.

Call for Papers for the 4th Scholars' Forum on Literature and History of Science.

New Publication: Die Entstehung der biologischen Evolutionstheorie by Wolfgang Lefèvre

The MPIWG cooperates with the University of Rostock.