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 2024
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Field Trip
Heavens in Your Hand: Astral Knowledge of Ancient and Medieval Coins
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
For the Love of the River: Nuclear Ecologies and the Sensory Politics of Green Energy
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
China’s Innovation Policy: An Evidence-Based Perspective
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom
April 2024
- 10:00 to 18:00
- Meeting
"Common Knowledge and Its Sources in the Sinosphere” Working Group Meeting
AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
From Development to Danger. EU Policy with Regard to Research Collaboration with China, 1992-2022
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Approaching, Translating, and Engaging Cosmology
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Experimenting with Socio-Material Relations: Rural Meteorological Services and its Integration into Agricultural Practices in China
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
CANCELED: Four Elements vs. Five Phases: Jesuit Influences in the Chinese Scientific and Philosophical Discourse
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom
May 2024
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Lecture
Lecture: "Discrimination in Algorithmic Decision Making"
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
European Noise: The Cosmo-Politics of Noise Abatement in European Cities
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Competing Economic Paradigms? Evolution of Chinese Economic Thought and Theories since China's Reform and Opening-up
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Scientific "Autocracy" in Times of Climate Crisis?
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Noise as (Environmental) Knowledge
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215
June 2024
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Disposable Modernity: Masks and the Rise of the Throwaway Medical Culture
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- Workshop
Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia
Organizer(s)- 14:00 to 16:30
- Workshop
Workshop: "BIPoC, birthing bodies, fauxminism—und wie sage ich das auf Deutsch?"
- Several Speakers
- Friederike Landau-Donnelly
- Birgit Kolboske
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Xi Jinping’s Perspectives on Science and Technology
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Knowing Trees: Co-producing Epistemologies of the Environment
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Plants from Pyramids: Biogeography, Climate and How to Write Cultural History
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215
July 2024
- 14:00 to 16:30
- Lecture
Lecture: "Feministische Kämpfe um Mieten, Heim- und Hausarbeit"
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room