Vergangene Veranstaltungen nach Jahr
Dezember 2013
- 00:00
- Kolloquium
Gedenkkolloquium Peter Damerow
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
Kontakt und Registrierung
- 15:00 bis 16:30
- Institutskolloquium
Asylums and the Data of Human Heredity
Organisatoren- Elaine Leong
- David Sepkoski
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
Kontakt und Registrierung
- 16:00
- Kolloquium
Leonardo’s Liquid Bodies
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 00:00
- Workshop
Perspectives on Deafness in 18th to 20th Century France and Russia
- The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United States
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Sabine Arnaud
- Claire Shaw
- 00:00
- Konferenz
ma(n)chines – life forms machines
Organisatoren- Patricia A. Gwozdz (Uni Potsdam)
- Jakob C. Heller (Viadrina)
- Tim Sparenberg (Viadrina)
- Ronja Tripp (Viadrina)
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
Über diese Reihe
Konzeption und Organisation: Patricia A. Gwozdz (Uni Potsdam), Jakob C. Heller (Viadrina), Tim Sparenberg (Viadrina), Ronja Tripp (Viadrina)
November 2013
- 09:00 bis 18:00
- Kolloquium
Berliner DoktorandInnenforum für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
Über diese Reihe
Eine Anmeldung ist zur Teilnahme zwingend nötig, bitte kontaktieren Sie Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (Sekretariat).- 11:00 bis 13:00
- Kolloquium
Making Human Difference Genetic in the 1950s
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
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This paper considers some of the varied practices that went into making populations into legible biological entities in the 1950s, work that was not simply self-evidently ‘biological’. Similar to other recent historical studies, I describe how the construction of blood groups as devices for producing human biological difference relied on notions of kinship, racial and national identity, multiple historical traditions, and questions and practices imported from geography and anthropology. But it is my argument that, this recourse to ‘cultural’ knowledge was not disingenuous or naïve, as some have implied; rather, this made blood-group genetics distinctively ‘human’. The paper concerns the work of Arthur Mourant, avid collected of blood groups and prolific author of what he called ‘blood group anthropology’. By calibrating his blood-group frequency data researchers like Mourant sought to give it the potential to reveal new knowledge about human difference and identity, even if the production of that knowledge was constantly deferred. By focusing on blood groups I outline an account of the way in which human difference was made genetic, and about how genetics was made human.- 11:00 bis 13:00
- Kolloquium
‘First Encounters’: Anthropological Field Work in ‘Mixed Race’ Aboriginal Communities in Australia, 1940–1965
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Kathryn Ticehurst (University of Sydney)
Organisatoren- Max Planck Research Group Lipphardt
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
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In Australia between 1940 and 1965, several anthropologists including Diane Barwick, Jeremy Beckett, Ruth Fink, Marie Reay and Judy Inglis undertook research in Aboriginal communities labelled as “mixed race.” This term had a confused application even at the time, referring to communities which self-identified as Aboriginal, but which government authorities viewed as transitional and assimilable. Such communities were neither bounded nor isolated and they presented theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropological study. These young researchers found themselves in a period of change: the traditional, colonial “anthropologist-subject” relationship was increasingly recognised as problematic and in need of re-theorising. They searched for new ways to conceptualise cultural identities, struggling to disentangle old racial definitions from the lived reality of Aboriginal communities. I examine the interactions which constituted their fieldwork in order to trace changes in anthropological understandings of Aboriginal identity.- 16:00
- Kolloquium
„Whether this Art Owes More to Nature, or Nature to this Art:“ Visualizing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Italy
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Lucia Dacome
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 09:00 bis 17:00
- Workshop
What's in a Place? Orientation Workshop for Historical Research Projects Using Geographical Data and GIS Technology
OrganisatorenAdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 15:00 bis 16:30
- Institutskolloquium
How Physicians Know: From Ars Excerpendi to the Ditto Machine
- Volker Hess
- 19:00
- Diskussion
Kulturgut im Zeitalter der digitalen Reproduzierbarkeit. Was bringt Open Access Museen und Sammlungen?
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Hermann Parzinger
- Jürgen Renn
Organisatoren- Max Planck Science Gallery
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
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Der Eintritt ist frei.
Oktober 2013
- 00:00
- Konferenz
Historicizing Big Data
Organisatoren- Elena Aronova
- David Sepkoski
- Christine von Oertzen
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
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Since the late 20th century, huge databases have become ubiquitous throughout the natural and human sciences, and the term “Big Data” has become a buzzword for describing an ostensibly new and distinctive mode of knowledge production. This conference examines the material culture, epistemology, practice, and cultural and political history of data in the modern sciences in critical historical perspective. While Big Data is often associated with the era of computer databases, participants will also explore important continuities with data practices stretching back to the 18th century and earlier. The conference will historicize the material cultures and practices of data in a broad context, including the development of information processing technologies (whether paper-based or mechanical); the relationships between collections of physical objects and collections of data; and visualizations and representations of data (graphs, images, printouts, etc.), both as working tools and also as means of communication. The conference will bring together scholars studying data from a variety of different disciplinary, temporal, and methodological perspectives, in the hopes both of identifying the important central problems in a history of data and of generating new lines of inquiry for the future. Interested scholars from both within and outside the MPIWG may attend the conference as guests, but since space will be limited they are asked to register by sending an email to Mala Shah (mshah@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) before October 15. Questions or inquiries about the conference itself can be directed to Dr. David Sepkoski (dsepkoski@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).- 15:00 bis 16:30
- Institutskolloquium
Herculean and Promethean Adventures on Long Journeys to the Future
- Sharon Traweek
- 15:00 bis 16:30
- Institutskolloquium
Plant Tributes and Trials in the French Empire, 1670-1730
- Emma Spary (University of Cambridge and MPIWG)
- 00:00
- Symposium
Das Wissen der Kunst und die Kunst des Wissens
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 15:30 bis 17:30
- Kolloquium
Different Forms. Touching Details of Measured Humans’ Files around 1900 in the Netherlands
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Geertje Mak (History Department/Institute for Gender Studies, Radboud University, The Netherlands)
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
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This presentation starts with three different forms used to note measurements taken from human bodies. One stems from a Dutch exploratory expedition in Dutch New Guinea in 1909, one from the instructions for prison guards for measuring their inmates (from 1896), and one from the archives of a girls state reformatory where the girls underwent extensive medical examination and measurement during the initial observation period (between 1906 and 1950). By doing so, it aims to shift the attention in the history of anthropometry from a critical discussion of its ideas, theories, categorizations and discourses to its practices ´on the ground´. Three theoretical routes through the material will be sketched out: on objectivity in the human sciences, on categorization and individuation and on infrastructure. These will be connected to historiographies of physical anthropology, criminology, reformative paedagogy and the adminstration of individual identities. Yet, beyond these theories and historiographies the material seems to speak to something else. They offer an almost indexical relation to a body in history – like a footprint. To touch upon that tactility of the forms I will go into detail.- 16:00
- Kolloquium
Art, Value, Common Knowledge, and Natural History: The Adversaria of Ernst Brinck (1582-1649)
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Claudia Swan
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 00:00
- Workshop
Alum – A Material at the Crossroads of the Arts, Crafts, and Learned Inquiry
Organisatoren- Sven Dupré
AdresseBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
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Es ist möglich am Workshop teilzunehmen. Da der Platz begrenzt ist, wird um Anmeldung gebeten.