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.
July 2022
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
The Laboratory of Animal Spirits. Animal Experimentation and Therapeutic Innovation in the Wake of the Psychopharmacological Revolution
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.
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
(POSTPONED) Constellations and Celestial Globes from the Islamic World: The Use of Virtual Reality Technology as a New Interpretative Tool
- Dept. III
- Federica Gigante (University of Oxford)
- Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa …
- Image Database: Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The meetings will take place on Zoom. The event is closed to the public, but MPIWG members are welcome and may register by emailing: brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
About This Series
The goal of the lecture series is to complement the image database that we have created over the last years by topic and region-specific lectures related to the history and culture of astral knowledge.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Nerves: A Preparation for, and Companion, to the New Working Group: “Knowing Nerves: From Animal Spirits to Neural Nets"
Contact and Registration
Contact to register for HE Reading Group: twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
About This Series
This reading group explores the theme of premodern experience by making use of and adapting the approach of historical epistemology (HE). We will discuss how different primary and secondary sources have treated the epistemic status of experience and the roles of experience in gaining scientific knowledge, applying scientific knowledge, building a scientific system, or becoming a scientist, and why they have done so. In so doing, we will discuss how the tools of HE can help us shed light on the roles of experience for scientific knowledge and how, in turn, these primary sources help shape a modified HE for the history of premodern science and beyond.
- Workshop
Approximations to Second Order: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Organizer(s)- 15:00 to 16:30
- Talk
Putting Knowledge to Practice: "Reading" Agricultural Terraces in Medieval Palestine
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
This is a hybrid event and will be open to the public online. To register, please contact Chun Xu (cxu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
- Workshop
Fenye in Local Gazetteers Workshop
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
This event is open to the public but requires registration. In-person spots are limited and are on a first come, first served basis. Please register by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Summer Colloquium
The Ninth-Century Transmission of Greek Philosophy into the Arabic-Speaking World and the Emergence of Baghdadian Rationalism: Coming to a Proper Judgement of the Place of Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq (CE 808-877)
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
The colloquium is open to everyone interested and will be offered in hybrid format. To register please contact Tracy Wietecha (twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This event is part of the Max Planck Research Group Premodern Sciences Summer Colloquium 2022.
- 13:05 to 14:00
- Summer Colloquium
Why Did People in Medieval Europe Think that Virgil Made Robots? Science Fiction, Astral Magic, and Literary Theory
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
The colloquium is open to everyone interested and will be offered in hybrid format. To register please contact Tracy Wietecha (twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This event is part of the Max Planck Research Group Premodern Sciences Summer Colloquium 2022.
August 2022
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Summer Colloquium
Plague: The Fractured Ontology of an Infectious Disease
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
The colloquium is open to everyone interested and will be offered in hybrid format. To register please contact Tracy Wietecha (twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This event is part of the Max Planck Research Group Premodern Sciences Summer Colloquium 2022.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Summer Colloquium
Cipher: The Art of Calculation in the Medieval Mediterranean
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
The colloquium is open to everyone interested and will be offered in hybrid format. To register please contact Tracy Wietecha (twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This event is part of the Max Planck Research Group Premodern Sciences Summer Colloquium 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
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Summer Colloquium
Knowledges in Transit: Linnaeus's Lapland Journey (1732)
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
The colloquium is open to everyone interested and will be offered in hybrid format. To register please contact Tracy Wietecha (twietecha@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This event is part of the Max Planck Research Group Premodern Sciences Summer Colloquium 2022.
- Conference
Philosophical Perspectives on Medieval Theories of Science
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
The event is open to the public. To register, please contact medieval.theories.of.science@gmail.com.