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.
January 2022
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
A Science Worth Trusting? Platform Capitalism Reorganizes the Science of the Future
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This event takes place online. A number of places are available to the public—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by January 17, 2022 to register. For further information about the program, please contact Pablo Ruiz de Olano (pdolano@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
Responsible Mental Health Measures that are Valid and Fit for their Purpose
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Several Speakers
- Eran Tal
- Sebastian Rodriguez Duque
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Demazeux
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The seminar series is open to all. To receive the zoom link, please email Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (officekeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This research seminar is hosted by the Bordeaux-Berlin Working Group on Translating Validity in Psychiatric Research and brings together historians, philosophers, psychiatrists and biomedical researchers.
February 2022
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
Thick Descriptions in Psychopathology: Ryle Meets Kraepelin
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Several Speakers
- Hanna van Loo
- Jan-Willem Romeijn
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Demazeux
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The seminar series is open to all. To receive the zoom link, please email Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (officekeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This research seminar is hosted by the Bordeaux-Berlin Working Group on Translating Validity in Psychiatric Research and brings together historians, philosophers, psychiatrists and biomedical researchers.
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Reading Seminar
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Everyone is welcome to join. Registration is required for persons outside of the Institute. For registration and any questions about the seminar please contact Marianna Szczygielska.
About This Series
"Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism" is a monthly reading seminar interrogating 'postcolonial' as an analytic concept in the history of science. The goal is to understand the ethics and mechanisms of our own epistemic practices as they relate to politics and power. We aim to examine the ways that epistemology is both historically contingent and actively produced within the history of science with the goal of troubling our disciplinary positions. For each meeting we list and circulate
- a short 'provocative text' to carry the empirical element and to provoke us to go wider in attempting to attend to something that troubles. Everyone is expected to read that text. In addition,
- we identify two or three 'theoretical' or descriptive papers that we feel might be useful in 'attending to the trouble.' These are optional readings. The idea is that everyone who attends the discussion will have read at least the short provocation paper and bring some 'troubles' to the meeting.
April 2022
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Trust, Truth, and Erasures in African Histories of Science
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This event takes place online. A number of places are available to the public—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by March 29, 2022 to register. For further information about this event, please contact Cheryl Mei-Ting Schmitz (office-ahlers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
Organizers
LISE MEITNER RESEARCH GROUP- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Historicizing Trust in Medicine
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This event takes place online. A number of places are available to the public—please email PUBLIC@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE by April 19, 2022 to register. For further information about the program, please contact Lara Keuck (lkeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
May 2022
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
“Can We Trust Science from China?” Observations around the Ascent of a New Power Player
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This event takes place online. A number of places are available to the public—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by May 24, 2022 to register. For further information about this event, please contact Anna L. Ahlers (office-ahlers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
Organizers
LISE MEITNER RESEARCH GROUP
June 2022
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Historicizing the Reproducibility Crisis
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This event takes place online. A number of places are available to the public—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by June 7, 2022 to register. For further information about the program, please contact Lara Keuck (lkeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
August 2022
- Workshop
Hortus Indicus Malabaricus: the Eurasian Life of a Seventeenth-Century European Botanical Classic
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The workshop is for invited participants only.
September 2022
- Conference
Philosophical Perspectives on Medieval Theories of Science
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The event is open to the public. To register, please contact medieval.theories.of.science@gmail.com.