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.
May 2019
- Workshop
Digital Humanities and Classical Studies: Prospects and Challenges
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMozart RoomContact and Registration
Please register for this event at https://goo.gl/forms/WjOYV1tghWILD0hD2 until May 16. For further information or in case of questions, contact Shih-Pei Chen.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar Series "The Uses of Imagination: Between Science and Art"
The Science of Character: Realism and Feminism in Fin-de-Siècle England
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
The seminar series is open to members of the Institute and to outside researchers. Registration for external guests is now closed due to high demand. Please contact Jonathan Morton for further information about the event series.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Casebooks Project
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
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 to 16:00
- Seminar
MPRG Final Theory Program Seminar
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
No registration necessary
About This Series
Further information: email officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- Exhibition
The Silkworm Project
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressArt Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin, Germany
June 2019
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Symposium
How Do New Concepts Emerge? On New Knowledge, Old Patterns of Thought, and Structural Changes
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Registration and further information at www.noetherkonferenz2019.de.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Of Sweet Potatoes, Locusts, Ducks, and Ditches: Animal Technology of Biological Pest Control in Late Imperial and Modern China
Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Limited places are available. Please register by contacting Danyang Zhang.
- 18:15 to 19:45
- Book Presentation
Horn oder Die Gegenseite der Medien
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Room2249aContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
About This Series
Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Department of Musicology and Media Science, Georgenstraße 47, Room 0.01
- Workshop
The Silkworm Project
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressArt Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Please register for this event by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 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
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!
- Workshop
Moving Crops
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141Contact and Registration
- 00:00
- Workshop
Opening the Doors of the Studio
AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 14:00 to 15:30
A Medieval Geographical Manuscript from Dunhuang: The Illustrated Itineraries of Shazhou (Shazhou tujing)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Limited places are available. Please register by contacting Danyang Zhang.
- 18:15 to 19:45
Making Tape: The Regime of Spools, Razors, and Cassettes
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Room2249aContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Department of Musicology and Media Science (Georgenstraße 47, room 0.01)
- Workshop
Proteins & Fibers Inquiry III—Betwixt and Between: Reconstructing Histories with Animal Teeth
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Laurence Douny
- Christina Warriner
- Lisa Onaga
- Soraya de Chadarevian
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
To register and access the pre-circulated readings and papers that will be discussed in this micro-workshop, please email event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Please include your name and affiliation in your email. Deadline June 15, 2019.
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Artist Talk
The Silkworm Project
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Weijing (Vivian) Xu
- Lisa Onaga
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressArt Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin, Germany
July 2019
- Symposium
The Artist-Silkworm Interface: The Agricultural Treatise as Source and Scrutiny for Creating an Artist Book
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomHumboldt RoomContact and Registration
Please register for this event by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
TU in LG (Second Closed Meeting)
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Shi-Pei Chen (schen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
- 14:00 to 15:30
Tuning the World: Aesthetics, Acoustics, Industry, and Global Politics (1834–1939)
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Visulization Project Working Group
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141Contact and Registration
Sonja Brentejes (brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)