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.
April 2018
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
The Naming of Particles: Representation and Concept Formation in Early Particle Physics
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
No registration necessary, for further information please contact officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Medieval Computus: Three Arguments for its Significance to Historians of Science
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium is a public event, open to all with no registration required. Attendance is mandatory for Institute’s members. For further information please email Ohad Parnes.
About This Series
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. The usual format is 45 minutes of presentation by the paper's author, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A discussion. No prior reading or preparation is required for this event series. Coffee and cake is served after the talk.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Lecture
A Market for Manuscripts: Scribal Production and Entertainment Literature in 19th Century Beijing
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
For further information contact Lisa Onaga
- 10:00 to 16:00
- Workshop
Productive Sounds in Everyday Spaces: Sounds at Work in Science, Art, and Industry, 1945 to Present
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Epistemes of Modern Acoustics members. Guests from within and outside the Institute are welcome. For all participants a reservation is needed. For further information please contact the organizer.
May 2018
- 19:00 to 21:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
Regarding Das Terrestrische Manifest
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressHaus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The Anthropocene Lectures are open to the public. No registration is required. For further information please see the HKW website.
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Summer Colloquium
Algorithmic Modeling of Musical Time
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- Workshop
Proteins & Fibers Inquiry I
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Registration with Office Department III
- 09:00 to 17:30
- Conference
The Spaces of Early Modern Architectural Production
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
Please register if you would like to attend: Elizabeth Merrill
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Information, Knowledge, and the Copernican Delay
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium is a public event, open to all with no registration required. Attendance is mandatory for Institute’s members. For further information please email Ohad Parnes.
About This Series
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. The usual format is 45 minutes of presentation by the paper's author, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A discussion. No prior reading or preparation is required for this event series. Coffee and cake is served after the talk.
- 17:00 to 19:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
Is the Anthropocene Soluble in Ontological Pluralism?
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The Anthropocene Lectures are open to the public. No registration required. For further information please contact Christoph Rosol.
- Workshop
Decolonizing the Plan
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Registration with Office Department III
- 10:30 to 13:00
- Lecture
The Intrinsic Place. Space as a Measurable Entity in Early Modern Art and Science
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
Following the talk there will be a closed group masterclass. If you would like to participate, please register with Angela Axworthy
June 2018
- 17:00 to 19:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
Nature and the Writing of History
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The Anthropocene Lectures are open to the public. No registration required. For further information please contact Christoph Rosol.
- 14:00 to 18:00
- Lecture
From Clay to Modern Editions: the Metamorphoses of Numbers
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
On the following day, there will be a closed group masterclass with Christine Proust. If you like to attend, please register at: translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Summer Colloquium
Tuning the US. Musical Practices, Technology and the Definition of a National Identity (1859–1939)
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 17:00 to 19:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
Inventing the Holocene Norm: from Victorian Geology to the Anthropocene
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The Anthropocene Lectures are open to the public. No registration required. For further information please contact Christoph Rosol.
- 00:00
- Workshop
The Bare Necessities: Histories of Provisioning from the Second World War to the Present
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
For further information contact Danyang Zhang.
- Workshop
Bare Necessities
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
Registration with Office Department III
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Workshop
Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
This is an author’s workshop; participation is possible only after contacting Hansjakob Ziemer.
About This Series
The workshop is organized in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Media History and Its Objects
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium is a public event, open to all with no registration required. Attendance is mandatory for Institute’s members. For further information please email Ohad Parnes.
About This Series
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. The usual format is 45 minutes of presentation by the paper's author, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A discussion. No prior reading or preparation is required for this event series. Coffee and cake is served after the talk.