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.
May 2025
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
"The Origin of All Seeds": Explaining the Causes of Diversity in Ilkhanid Agriculture
June 2025
- 09:00 to 17:15
- Workshop
Training Week: A Global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: New Approaches, New Digital Tools
Organizer(s)- 11:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and Archival Practices as Knowledge Sharing, Centralization of Power and Appropriation of Cultural Heritage
Organizer(s)- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
CANCELED: An Italian-Chinese Joint Venture in Cosmic Ray Astronomy
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Internal–External Dynamics in Late Ming External Medicine
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Colloquium
Soul and Body of Shengguantu: The Stable Terminology Needled the Way through Gameboards
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 12:00 to 13:00
- Brown Bag Meeting
Small-Scale Online Radio Stations: Developing a Conceptual Framework for Experimental Infrastructures
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
From National Knowledge Systems to Global Knowledge Value Chains? How Metrics, Markets, and Geopolitics Shape Social Sciences in Germany, Canada, and China
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
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
- 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