Dezember 2020
- 14:00 bis 15:30
Cultural Translation Processes in 16th Century Tunisia: The Case of ´Alī B. Aḥmad B. Muḥammad Al-Sharafī from Sfax
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265Kontakt und Registrierung
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome! Due to space restrictions, we ask non-Dept. III participants to register in advance. Please send an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de if you would like to attend. We have ten spaces for visitors outside of the department.
Über diese Reihe
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email one week in advance.
- 12:00 bis 13:30
- Reading Group
Name, Thing Named, and Signification in Classic Islamic Theology
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
Please note that this event series will take place on Zoom and thus pre-registration is required. All reading materials will be circulated one week in advance. For more information and registering please contact Maria Avxentevskaya.
Über diese Reihe
The series of reading sessions "The Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs" explores how the premodern experiences of the natural world were expressed, recorded, and communicated through verbal, visual, and semiotic means. By analyzing the premodern theorizing and practices concerning signification we aim to clarify how diverse views on it as an intellectual, cognitive, and performative process affected the production of knowledge in the premodern world. The group will meet online in November 2020 to February 2021 and discuss the primary sources suggested and introduced at each session by the group participants specializing in historical areas from classical to premodern traditions up to the eighteenth century on a global scale.
- 14:00 bis 16:00
- Seminar
John Wheeler between Cold Matter and Frozen Stars: The Road Towards Black Holes
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
This event takes place online. All are welcome, no registration required.
For further information please email officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 12:00 bis 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Software Building for Textual Scholarship Practices
- Dept. IIIResearch IT
- Mahmoud Kozae
Kontakt und Registrierung
Please email Research IT Group for the Zoom link.
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.
Über diese Reihe
Brown Bag Lunch is a bi-weekly meeting of researchers at the MPIWG who use or want to learn more about digital research methods, broadly encompassed by the term Digital Humanities. In the Brown Bag Lunch meetings, researchers can discuss tools, share ideas and experiences (good and bad), and learn from each other. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!
- 14:00 bis 15:30
Theories of Change; Or, How Sea Level Rise Became a Historical Event
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265Kontakt und Registrierung
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome! Due to space restrictions, we ask non-Dept. III participants to register in advance. Please send an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de if you would like to attend. We have ten spaces for visitors outside of the department.
Über diese Reihe
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email one week in advance.
- Workshop
Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
The workshop will take place in room 265 and on Zoom. It is a closed workshop (only those selected via the CFA may attend); MPIWG researchers interested in sitting in as internal observers should contact Shih-Pei Chen.
- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Historicizing Ableism and Ageism
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Aparna Nair (University of Oklahoma)
- Lara Keuck (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. For further information about the series, please contact Lisa Onaga and/or Stephanie Hood.
This event will take place online: the meeting link will be sent to Institute members via MPIWG-Announce the day before the event.
A limited number of places are available to external participants—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by the day before the event to register.
- 12:00 bis 13:30
- Reading Group
Experiences and Signification in Medieval Latin Natural Philosophy
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
Please note that this event series will take place on Zoom and thus pre-registration is required. All reading materials will be circulated one week in advance. For more information and registering please contact Maria Avxentevskaya.
Über diese Reihe
The series of reading sessions "The Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs" explores how the premodern experiences of the natural world were expressed, recorded, and communicated through verbal, visual, and semiotic means. By analyzing the premodern theorizing and practices concerning signification we aim to clarify how diverse views on it as an intellectual, cognitive, and performative process affected the production of knowledge in the premodern world. The group will meet online in November 2020 to February 2021 and discuss the primary sources suggested and introduced at each session by the group participants specializing in historical areas from classical to premodern traditions up to the eighteenth century on a global scale.
Januar 2021
- 15:00 bis 16:30
- Reading Group
Signification in Sanskrit and in the Indian Colonial Context
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
Please note that this event series will take place on Zoom and thus pre-registration is required. All reading materials will be circulated one week in advance. For more information and registering please contact Maria Avxentevskaya.
Über diese Reihe
The series of reading sessions "The Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs" explores how the premodern experiences of the natural world were expressed, recorded, and communicated through verbal, visual, and semiotic means. By analyzing the premodern theorizing and practices concerning signification we aim to clarify how diverse views on it as an intellectual, cognitive, and performative process affected the production of knowledge in the premodern world. The group will meet online in November 2020 to February 2021 and discuss the primary sources suggested and introduced at each session by the group participants specializing in historical areas from classical to premodern traditions up to the eighteenth century on a global scale.
- 12:00 bis 13:30
- Reading Group
Terms, Notions, and Imagery in Chinese Theories of Signification
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
Please note that this event series will take place on Zoom and thus pre-registration is required. All reading materials will be circulated one week in advance. For more information and registering please contact Maria Avxentevskaya.
Über diese Reihe
The series of reading sessions "The Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs" explores how the premodern experiences of the natural world were expressed, recorded, and communicated through verbal, visual, and semiotic means. By analyzing the premodern theorizing and practices concerning signification we aim to clarify how diverse views on it as an intellectual, cognitive, and performative process affected the production of knowledge in the premodern world. The group will meet online in November 2020 to February 2021 and discuss the primary sources suggested and introduced at each session by the group participants specializing in historical areas from classical to premodern traditions up to the eighteenth century on a global scale.
- 14:00 bis 15:00
- Discussion Group
Measuring the Earth Discussion Group
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
In case you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session or registration, please feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
Februar 2021
- 12:00 bis 13:30
- Reading Group
Signification in Artificial Languages in Early Modern European Thought
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
Please note that this event series will take place on Zoom and thus pre-registration is required. All reading materials will be circulated one week in advance. For more information and registering please contact Maria Avxentevskaya.
Über diese Reihe
The series of reading sessions "The Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs" explores how the premodern experiences of the natural world were expressed, recorded, and communicated through verbal, visual, and semiotic means. By analyzing the premodern theorizing and practices concerning signification we aim to clarify how diverse views on it as an intellectual, cognitive, and performative process affected the production of knowledge in the premodern world. The group will meet online in November 2020 to February 2021 and discuss the primary sources suggested and introduced at each session by the group participants specializing in historical areas from classical to premodern traditions up to the eighteenth century on a global scale.
März 2021
- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Environments and Ecologies of Transmission
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. For further information about the series, please contact Lisa Onaga and/or Stephanie Hood.
This event will take place online: the meeting link will be sent to Institute members via MPIWG-Announce the day before the event.
A limited number of places are available to external participants—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by the day before the event to register.
April 2021
- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Pandemic Polities: Science Governance in Democratic and Authoritarian Regimes
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. For further information about the series, please contact Lisa Onaga and/or Stephanie Hood.
This event will take place online: the meeting link will be sent to Institute members via MPIWG-Announce the day before the event.
A limited number of places are available to external participants—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by the day before the event to register.
Mai 2021
- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Pulse Check: Public Communication and Trust in Science
Organizer(s)Kontakt und Registrierung
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. For further information about the series, please contact Lisa Onaga and/or Stephanie Hood.
This event will take place online: the meeting link will be sent to Institute members via MPIWG-Announce the day before the event.
A limited number of places are available to external participants—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by the day before the event to register.
Juni 2021
- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Know "Thy" Experience
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumMain Conference RoomKontakt und Registrierung
Open to all, no registration required. Please contact the organizer, Ohad Parnes, for further information.
Über diese Reihe
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. The usual format is 45 minutes of presentation by the paper's author, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A discussion. No prior reading or preparation is required for this event series. Coffee and cake is served after the talk.
Past Events
Dezember 2017
- 14:00 bis 15:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
The Body Politic: Human Being and Becoming in the Planetary Era
- Dept. I
- Karen Litfin
Organizer(s)- Franz Mauelshagen
Verwandte Projekt(e)
AdresseIASS Potsdam Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V., Berliner Straße 130, 14467 Potsdam, Deutschland
RaumBallroomKontakt und Registrierung
No registration required. For further details please email Franz Mauelshagen.
Über diese Reihe
The Anthropocene—the geological epoch of humanity—has established itself as a key concept within a wider scientific and social discourse. In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes to the basic conditions for life on our planet, new epistemic potentials for human action upon the Earth are to be explored.
In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of distinguished speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate are invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures take place at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam.
- 12:30 bis 14:00
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Network Analysis Overview
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265Kontakt und Registrierung
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.
Über diese Reihe
The Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch Workshop occurs bi-weekly. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!
- 10:00 bis 17:00
- Workshop
Moving Crops
- Dept. III
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Dagmar Schäfer
- Alina-Sandra Cucu
Organizer(s)Verwandte Projekt(e)
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
Kontakt und Registrierung
Observers are welcome but places are limited—please register with event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 15:30 bis 17:00
Thematic Cluster: Visualizing Cosmologies
Organizer(s)Verwandte Projekt(e)
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265Kontakt und Registrierung
No registration required. For more information, please contact the organizer.
Über diese Reihe
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email and available on the event page one week in advance. Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome!
- 13:30 bis 15:30
Sampling History: A New Cut
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Mara Mills
- Jonathan Sterne
Verwandte Projekt(e)
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 215Kontakt und Registrierung
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
The papers are available one week in advance.
Über diese Reihe
The Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Colloquium occurs once per month and is not linked to a specific Working Group. The standard format is a presentation by the paper's author, followed by a discussion. Attendees must read the precirculated paper, sent out a week in advance.
- 14:00 bis 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
The Worldwide Rise of “No Religion” and Its Significance
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumMain Conference RoomKontakt und Registrierung
The Institute's Colloquium is a public event, open to all with no registration required. Attendance is mandatory for Institute’s members. For further information please email Ohad Parnes.
Über diese Reihe
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. The usual format is 45 minutes of presentation by the paper's author, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A discussion. No prior reading or preparation is required for this event series. Coffee and cake is served after the talk.
November 2017
- 18:00 bis 20:00
- Lecture
Die Evolution des Wissens
Organizer(s)- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
- Eurasien-Abteilung
AdresseEthnological Museum, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Deutschland
- 15:30 bis 17:00
Engineering Cairo: Sewers and the Social
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265Kontakt und Registrierung
Please contact the organizer for further information.
Über diese Reihe
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email and available on the event page one week in advance. Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome!
- 15:00 bis 18:00
- Presentation
The Potential of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality in Humanities Research
Organizer(s)- Oliver Autumn (VR Business Club)
- Florian Kräutli
- Turhan Gezer
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
Kontakt und Registrierung
Please register at akilgus@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by November 22, 2017.
- 14:00
- Political Epistemology Talk
Creative Commensuration: the Political Stakes of the History of Science
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 15:30 bis 17:00
Thematic Cluster: Colonial Techniques
Organizer(s)AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 19:00
- Lecture
Plato’s Cave Revisited: A Conversation about Education Today
Organizer(s)- Cooperation of Bard College Berlin and the Barenboim-Said Academy
Über diese Reihe
No registration required
- 14:00 bis 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Popular Medicine in Antiquity
- William Harris (Columbia University)
Organizer(s)AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 18:00
Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time Compression
- 15:30 bis 12:00
Hearing Objectified: (Re)producing Noise through Decibel Measurements and Audio Recordings under Taiwan’s Noise Management System
AdresseMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomKontakt und Registrierung
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
The papers are available one week in advance.
Oktober 2017
- 18:00
Time-Uncritical Media. Stretching and Shrinking Sound in the 1940s
- 15:30 bis 17:00
The Origins of Alpine Internationalism: Alpine Clubs as Networks of Knowledge, 1874–1920
Organizer(s)AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 14:00
- Political Epistemology Talk
On Collecting and Interpreting Biofacts
- Nicole Karafyllis (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 11:00 bis 12:30
Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution
- Dept. III
- Janet Browne
Organizer(s)AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland