• Research Reels: Birgit Kolboske with her recent book "Bilder einer Gesellschaft"

    Research Reel

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    Birgit Kolboske: Bilder einer Gesellschaft (Images of a Society)

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  • Close-up of cracked and peeling paint layers in multiple colors on a surface. Source: Eduardo Goody,

    Event Series

    Institute's Colloquium 2026–27

    Histories of Science That Lie Beneath

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  • Research Reels: Leonie Böttiger

    Research Reel

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    Leonie Böttiger: Women Patients in Early Medieval Arabic Gynecological Recipes

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  • Magazine with a black and white image of a boy.

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    No. 89

    Laboratory for Multimodal History: An Inclusive Space for Audiovisual Experimentation and Collaborative Research

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society. Since its inception, the Institute has continually expanded the boundaries of the field of the history of science—critically interrogating basic concepts, bringing multiple disciplines into dialog, and experimenting with novel research methods.

 

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Schedule for Institute's Colloquium 2026–27 "Histories of Science That Lie Beneath" now online

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Jelena Große-Bley interviewed by Süddeutsche Zeitung on China’s approach to climate change

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Jacob Schmidt-Madsen interviewed for The Indian Express on the history of "Snakes and Ladders"

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Events

Workshop: Research Communication for the Humanities

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Roundtable: Research Communication for the Humanities

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The Anatomy of Time: Integrating Medical Calendrics and Dolpopa’s Ontology in the Kālacakra System

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Vector Poetics: Race, Power, and Disease in Early Caribbean Mosquito-Bite Literature

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