The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) offers a diverse program of public events, including colloquia, seminars, and workshops. Our Institute’s Colloquium is open and free to attend. Our other events often require registration or invitation—please check each individual event for details.
April 2024
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Exploring Images of Climate Change with Digital Methods
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219
May 2024
- 11:00 to 12:30
Chinese Maps as Cosmographs
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLibrary- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Beyond Translation: Multilingual Practices in the Transmission of Islamicate Astral Sciences to 13th–14th-Century China
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Tools of Knowledge: Revitalising a Legacy Database of Scientific Instrument Makers
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 16:30
- Lecture
Lecture: "Discrimination in Treatment Decisions and Its Implications in Data-Driven Fairness"
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomHumboldt Room- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
European Noise: The Cosmo-Politics of Noise Abatement in European Cities
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Competing Economic Paradigms? Evolution of Chinese Economic Thought and Theories since China's Reform and Opening-up
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Ptolemaic Astronomy through Computer Vision: A Building Platform for Research on Astronomical Diagrams
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 16:00
- Discussion
Laboratory for Oral History and Experimental Media Series: Voices of the Nakba
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstr. 16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB16 Seminar Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Scientific "Autocracy" in Times of Climate Crisis?
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Noise as (Environmental) Knowledge
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215
June 2024
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Lecture
On Obstacle Courses and Other Racings (or an Outburst about Reusing 3D Models of Cultural Heritage Objects for Research and Conservation)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
Metaphysics beyond Ontology and Aesthetics
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Cosmos and the Body Politic in the Byzantine World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Disposable Modernity: Masks and the Rise of the Throwaway Medical Culture
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 11:00 to 13:00
- Field Trip
Objects Revealed: TBC
Organizer(s)AddressJägerstraße 22-23, 10117 Berlin, Germany
RoomBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften- Workshop
Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia
Organizer(s)- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Disaster in the East Asian History of Science
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Chun Xu
- Kyonghee Lee
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Computer Vision for History
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform