• 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

    Short Video

    Leonie Böttiger: Women Patients in Early Medieval Arabic Gynecological Recipes

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

    Feature Story

    No. 89

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

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  • Research Reels: Joan Judge

    Research Reel

    Short Video

    Joan Judge: The Politics of Common Reading: Vernacular Knowledge and Everyday Technics in China, 1894–1954

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

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Jacob Schmidt-Madsen honored with 2026 Chess Journalists of America Book of the Year award

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New vacancies and fellowships in research, administration and/or technical support

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Events

10th IASSRT Symposium. Textiles as Knowledge Systems: Practice, Codification and Transfer

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Ecologies of Photography: Between Earth & Aesthetics

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Premodern Knowledge Systems from Primary Sources

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Multiple Lives of Quantification in the Modern World

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