Each year the MPIWG hosts a monthly colloquium series open to the public. This year’s series is organized by Matteo Valleriani, research scholar in Department I, “Structural Changes in Systems of Knowledge” (valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Wednesdays, 3 p.m.
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Henrique Leitão (University of Lisbon)
The Ship as “New World”: Long-distance Oceanic Voyages and the Practice of Science (15th to 18th Century)
Gerhard Rammer (Technische Universität Berlin)
Die Bedeutung praktischen Wissens für Wasserradtheorien im 18. und 19. Jahrhundert
Dirk Wintergrün (MPIWG, Berlin)
Towards an Infrastructure for Digital Humanities at the MPIWG: From ECHO to the Digital ScrapBook
Renée Raphael (University of California, Irvine)
Evaluating Galileo’s Discorsi: Theorical and Practical Knowledge in the Scholarly Practices of 17th-century Readers
Ursula Klein (MPIWG, Berlin)
Experts in the Royal Prussian Porcelain Manufactory
Urs Schoepflin (MPIWG, Berlin)
Linking Scholars. Bringing your Research on the Web – Copyrights, Publication Agreements, and Other Issues
Patrick Boner (John Hopkins University, Baltimore)
Practical Astronomy in Early Modern Prague: Compiling Observations at the Court of Rudolph II
David Sepkoski (MPIWG, Berlin)
From Collections to Databases: Theory and Practice in Modern Paleontological Data Analysis
Kevin Laland (University of St. Andrews)
Cause and Effect in Biology Revisited: Is Mayr’s Proximate-ultimate Dichotomy Still Useful?
Matteo Valleriani (MPIWG, Berlin)
The Early Modern Engineer’s Nature
Stephen Johnston (Museum of the History of Science, University of Oxford)
The Archaeology of Practical Knowledge: Instruments, Techniques and Craft Practice
Friedrich Steinle (Technische Unversität Berlin)
Colour Knowledge in the 18th Century: Practice, Systematisation, and Natural Philosophy
Jochen Büttner (MPIWG and Excellence Cluster TOPOI, Berlin)
Prolegomena zu einer Theorie antiker Innovationsprozesse
