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.
June 2018
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Media History and Its Objects
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
Moving Crops
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Registration with Office Department III. The workshop takes place in room 141.
- 14:00 to 18:00
- Lecture
Of Lexical Shells and Textual Monstrosities: Tales of Translation in Late Imperial China
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
On the following day, there will be a closed group masterclass with Joachim Kurtz. If you would like to attend, please register at: translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 09:00 to 18:00
- Workshop
Shifting Baselines, Altered Horizons: Politics, Practice, and Knowledge in Environmental Science and Policy
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
For further information about this event, please email Wilko Hardenberg.
- 11:00 to 15:00
- Seminar
Chasing Science on the Move: Translation, Domestication, Transformation
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
Preregistration is required. Please email us at: translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
About This Series
What happens when knowledge is transferred across cultural boundaries? How is it affected by moving between different media and passing through institutional frameworks? This series of three two-day colloquia will explore the translation of knowledge in different contexts over time and space. Each event consists of a public lecture and a panel discussion on the first day, and a closed group masterclass on the second day.
- 16:30 to 18:00
- Roundtable
Conservation in the Anthropocene: A Plenary Roundtable
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Daniel Pauly
- Allen Thompson
- Thomas Lekan
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
This is a public event, no registration required. Please email Wilko Hardenberg for further information.
- 10:00 to 16:50
- Workshop
The Safavid Multi-Text-Manuscript 1984.463 (Harvard University, Sackler Museum)—its Content and Context
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
For further information please contact Sonja Brentjes
About This Series
This event is going to take place in Hamburg, for more details please refer to the local organiser’s website.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
On Strings and Loops: Shifting the Perspectives
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
No registration necessary. For further information please contact Kseniia Mohelsky.
- 17:00 to 19:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
The Human Imprint: Nature, Time, and Law in the Anthropocene
Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The Anthropocene Lectures are open to the public. No registration required. For further information please contact Christoph Rosol.
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Summer Colloquium
Soliloquies on Tape: Some Thoughts on Media Application
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 10:00 to 19:00
- Workshop
13th Scholars’ Forum for Literature and the History of Science
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Thomas Young and the Decipherment of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLise-Meitner-SaalContact and Registration
No registration is required. For further information about the event, please contact Ohad Parnes.
July 2018
- Workshop
Tu (圖) in Local Gazetteers
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
This meeting is a working meeting and is not open to the public. Please register with Office Department III if you wish to participate.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Pre-War Kulturwissenschaft in Cold War Berlin
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.
- External/Cooperation Event
Seventh International Conference on Integrated History and Philosophy of Science
AddressWelfengarten 1, 30167 Hannover, Germany
About This Series
This event is organized by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in cooperation with the Institute of Philosophy, Leibniz Universität Hannover (Hannover) and takes place at the University’s campus in Hannover.
- 14:00 to 18:00
- Lecture
Machine Translation Before and After the Iron Curtain
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Room2249aContact and Registration
On the following day, there will be a closed group masterclass with Michael Gordin. If you would like to attend, please register at: translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 11:00 to 15:00
- Seminar
Science in a "Minor Language"
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
Preregistration is required. Please email us at: translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
About This Series
What happens when knowledge is transferred across cultural boundaries? How is it affected by moving between different media and passing through institutional frameworks? This series of three two-day colloquia will explore the translation of knowledge in different contexts over time and space. Each event consists of a public lecture and a panel discussion on the first day, and a closed group masterclass on the second day.
August 2018
- Workshop
Ownership of Knowledge
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Registration with Office Department III
September 2018
- Workshop
Proteins & Fibers Inquiry II
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Registration with Office Department III
October 2018
- Methods Intensive Workshop
Oral History and the History of Scientific Practice: A Difficult Dialogue
Contact and Registration
Pre-registration is possible until June 31, 2018 by sending an email to schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Please note, in order to enable a working atmosphere we will allow a maximum of 15 participants. First come, first serve.