The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) offers a diverse program of public events, including colloquia, seminars, and workshops. Our Institute’s Colloquium is open and free to attend. Our other events often require registration or invitation—please check each individual event for details.
January 2019
- 20:00 to 21:30
- Discussion
Maße jenseits menschlicher Dimensionen - Naturkonstanten und Paralleluniversen
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Alexander Blum
- Hermann Nicolai
AddressWissenschaftsforum, Markgrafenstraße 37, 10117 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Data and the Quest for Facts: Empirical Knowledge in the Age of Big and Open Data
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLise-Meitner-SaalContact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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.
February 2019
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Epistemic Dynamics: Towards a Constitutive Relationship Between Philosophy and History of Science from a Premodern Perspective
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
DH Brown Bag Lunch
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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!
March 2019
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
DH Brown Bag Lunch
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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!
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Science and Indian Nationalism
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
DH Brown Bag Lunch
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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!
April 2019
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
An Awkward Proposal: Reconciling the Two Fields through Confronting Their Exclusion of Indigenous Knowledge
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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.
- Workshop
Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East
AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLaue RoomContact and Registration
The keynote lecture is public. To attend the workshop panels, registration is required: event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by March 1, 2019.
May 2019
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
How History of Science and Philosophy of Science Jointly Marginalize (Feminist and Other) Scientific Alternatives to the What Gets Known as the Scientific World View
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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.
June 2019
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Philosophy of the Historiography of Science
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
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.
About This Series
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.