• Research Reels: Jeffrey Kotyk with his recent publication "Zoroastrianism in the Chinese Imagination"

    Research Reel

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    Jeffrey Kotyk: Zoroastrianism in the Chinese Imagination

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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: Daniela Trinks

    Research Reel

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    Daniela Trinks: The Association between Go Experience and Sustained Attention in Young Adults

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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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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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Zsuzsanna Ihar feature in Tagesspiegel's "Top 100 Berlin Researchers 2026"

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Institute welcomes Journalist in Residence Moira Donovan

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IMPRS "Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities" welcomes its fourth cohort

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Events

Mapping Saturn: The Visual Cultures of a Planet from Antiquity to the Early Modern World

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The Ethical Tension of the Oral Historian-Researcher (Workshop)

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Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge between Late Antiquity and Early Islam

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Which Global China: Current Debates, Open Frontiers

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