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 2025
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Editing in Public: The Changing Landscape of Journal Editorship in the History of Science and Technology
- Several Speakers
- Amy Slaton
- Tiago Saraiva
- Kärin Nickelsen
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Workshop
Unsettling Exposure International Workshop
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Forms of Labour (chapter from the monograph "Tempered by Time: Ceramics and the Fabric of Time in Medieval South India")
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Amazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215
July 2025
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Divergence and Convergence in Emerging AI Governance Regimes in China, Germany/the EU and the US
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom
September 2025
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
Games Across Asia: The Primary Sources of Play
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room