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.
March 2019
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Presentation
Where is Astronomy Between 1633 and 1686? The Intermediate System by Giovanni Battista Riccioli S.J.
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219Contact and Registration
- 10:30 to 12:30
Musicians as Technicians: Music, Technology, and Labor in the American Film Industry, 1925–1933
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
- 13:30 to 15:30
Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking
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
- Workshop
Non-Empirical Physics from a Historical Perspective
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
All members of the Institute are cordially invited to attend any of the talks. We would kindly ask those interested in joining us on all three days of the event, however, to please register by sending an e-mail to officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de before February 28.
April 2019
- 14:00 to 15:30
Divination Engines: A Media History of Text Prediction
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
- 19:30 to 21:30
- Lecture
Experimenteller Geist
Organizer(s)AddressKunstverein Neukölln e.V., Mainzer Str. 42, 12053 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Susann Kramer at Kunstverein Neukölln e.V. (presse@kunstverein-neukoelln.de).
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
An Awkward Proposal: Reconciling the Philosophy and History of Science through Confronting These Fields' 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.
- 14:00 to 22:30
- 500th Anniversary Event
Leonardo da Vinci. An Inquisitive Man: Technologist, Scientist, and Artist
- Workshop
Sounds of Language
AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 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 22, 2019.
- 14:00 to 18:00
Capturing Sound in the Premodern and Early Modern World
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
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Seminar Series "The Uses of Imagination: Between Science and Art"
Around the Pluriverse in 9 Objects: Cosmological Compositions for Critical Zones
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
The seminar series is open to members of the Institute and to outside researchers. Those coming from outside should give advance notice to ensure there is enough space. Please contact Jonathan Morton to register and receive the precirculated papers.
May 2019
- 16:00 to 18:00
- Seminar Series "The Uses of Imagination: Between Science and Art"
Performing Knowledge: Experiments between Arts, Science, and Politics
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. Those coming from outside should give advance notice to ensure there is enough space. Please contact Jonathan Morton to register and receive the precirculated papers.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Thinking with Sound: A New Program in the Sciences and Humanities around 1900
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
- 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.
- Workshop
Digital Humanities and Classical Studies: Prospects and Challenges
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Please register for this event at https://goo.gl/forms/WjOYV1tghWILD0hD2. For further infomation 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. Those coming from outside should give advance notice to ensure there is enough space. Please contact Jonathan Morton to register and receive the precirculated papers.
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.
- 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
- 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.