• Research Reels: Marianna Sczcygielska (stage)

    Research Reel

    Short Video

    Marianna Szczygielska: Animating Capture: A Microhistory of Elephant Mobility

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    Event Series

    Institute's Colloquium 2025–26

    Rethinking Time in the History of Science

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  • Research Reels: Riaz Howey

    Research Reel

    Short Video

    Riaz Howey: Research Reels: ‘Rotten and Useful’: Compos(t)ing Knowledge in Mongol Iran

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    Feature Story

    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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News & Press

Berlin’s History of Knowledge course list (KVV) for summer semester 2026 has been published online

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Chanelle Adams receives the ESEH 2025 Bristol-Bern Prize in Public Environmental History

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International Association of the Study of Silk Road Textiles (IASSRT) Symposium (Deadline April 15, 2026)

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Events

Methods Intensive Master Class with Temi Odumosu: Do Images Still Matter? Visual Anxieties in the Time of AI

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Methods Intensive Master Class with Temi Odumosu: “Visual Research in Interdisciplinary Contexts“ + “Healing Mode – Ethics of Care in Front of and Behind Visual Documents”

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Governing the Paradox of Knowledge: How Research Security Shapes Open Science in EU–China Academic Cooperation

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The Enchanted Basin in Mamluk Cairo: Medicine and Magic

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