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 2023
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
Latrines, Vaccines, and Socialist Doctors: Health in Mozambique’s Weekly Magazine "O Tempo"
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Alila Brossard Antonielli
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt Universität zu Berlin,, Friedrichstraße 191, Raum 5028, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Room5028- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Sanskrit into Arabic: On the Reception of Ayurvedic Medicine in Early Abbasid Society
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Oliver Kahl
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Earth System Science in Political Context
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- Workshop
The Waste of the Body: Workshop II
Organizer(s)- 13:00 to 14:30
- Colloquium
Science as Prophecy: Measuring Climates Past and Future
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- Workshop
Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Marco Clausen
- Jürgen Renn
- Sverker Sörlin
- Troy Vettesse
- Julia Sánchez Dorado
- Etienne Benson
- Emil Flatø
- Sabine Höhler
- Christoph Rosol
- Johan Gärdebo
- Aisha Kadiri
- Orit Halpern
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
- Matteo Pasquinelli
- Christoph Engemann
- Leah Aronowsky
- Erik Ljungberg
- Dania Achermann
- Erik Isberg
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:30 to 18:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
The Fetus and the Lamb: The Many Histories of the Auckland Antenatal Steroid Clinical Trial
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Tatjana Buklijas
Organizer(s)AddressInstitut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin - Charité Berlin, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin - Charité Berlin Thielallee 71, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
A Global History of the Dissertation: What the Scholar and His/Her Scholarship Have Been Thought to Be?
- Dept. III
- Kevin Chang
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Forensic Diplomacy and International Technical Cooperation: The Case of Mexico’s Extraordinary Mechanism for Forensic Identification
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Roundtable
Roundtable: The Securitization, Moralization, and Idealization of Academic Cooperation with the PRC
- Lise Meitner Research Group
- Several Speakers
- Wang Zuoyue
- Marcus Conlé
- Katrin Kinzelbach
- Tommy Shih
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Sources of the Critical Edition of Ibn al-Jazzār’s Medical Handbook
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Lecture
Syringe Tides: Throwaway Culture and the Making of Medical Waste
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Numeracy and Administration in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
The Formalization of Historical Reasoning
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 14:00 to 15:30
- Talk
The Mystery of the Seventeenth-Century Telescope: A Whodunit
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Impact of Agricultural Practices on Pollinators, Pollination, and Food Production in Cameroon
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Science, Art, Both, or Neither? The Geopolitics of Disciplinary Canons
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Surekha Davies
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany