Past Events by Year
December 2017
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
The Body Politic: Human Being and Becoming in the Planetary Era
- Dept. I
- Karen Litfin
Organizer(s)- Franz Mauelshagen
AddressIASS Potsdam Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V., Berliner Straße 130, 14467 Potsdam, Germany
RoomBallroomContact and Registration
No registration required. For further details please email Franz Mauelshagen.
About This Series
The Anthropocene—the geological epoch of humanity—has established itself as a key concept within a wider scientific and social discourse. In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes to the basic conditions for life on our planet, new epistemic potentials for human action upon the Earth are to be explored.
In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of distinguished speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate are invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures take place at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS) in Potsdam.
- 12:30 to 14:00
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Network Analysis Overview
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.
About This Series
The Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch Workshop occurs bi-weekly. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!
- 10:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
Moving Crops
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Dagmar Schäfer
- Alina-Sandra Cucu
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Observers are welcome but places are limited—please register with event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Colloquium
Thematic Cluster: Visualizing Cosmologies
- The MPIWG Chinese Map Collection: Typological Parallels and "Historical" Layers
- MPIWG Map Collection: Comparative Study of Cosmographic Maps of the Qing Empire
- Translation Terroirs: East Asia between Autochthonous and European Cartographic…
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Sampling History: A New Cut
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Several Speakers
- Mara Mills
- Jonathan Sterne
Related Project(s)
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
The papers are available one week in advance.
About This Series
The Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Colloquium occurs once per month and is not linked to a specific Working Group. The standard format is a presentation by the paper's author, followed by a discussion. Attendees must read the precirculated paper, sent out a week in advance.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
The Worldwide Rise of “No Religion” and Its Significance
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 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.
November 2017
- 18:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
Die Evolution des Wissens
Organizer(s)- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
- Eurasien-Abteilung
AddressEthnological Museum, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Germany
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Colloquium
Engineering Cairo: Sewers and the Social
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 15:00 to 18:00
- Presentation
The Potential of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality in Humanities Research
Organizer(s)- Oliver Autumn (VR Business Club)
- Florian Kräutli
- Turhan Gezer
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Please register at akilgus@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by November 22, 2017.
- 14:00
- Political Epistemology Talk
Creative Commensuration: the Political Stakes of the History of Science
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Colloquium
Thematic Cluster: Colonial Techniques
- Documenting Destitution: Photography and the Visual Archive of Famine in India
- Science and the Senses: A Sensory History of Scientific Knowledge in South Asia
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 19:00
- Lecture
Plato’s Cave Revisited: A Conversation about Education Today
Organizer(s)- Cooperation of Bard College Berlin and the Barenboim-Said Academy
About This Series
No registration required
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Popular Medicine in Antiquity
- William Harris (Columbia University)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00
- Colloquium
Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time Compression
- 15:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Hearing Objectified: (Re)producing Noise through Decibel Measurements and Audio Recordings under Taiwan’s Noise Management System
AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
The papers are available one week in advance.
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Workshop
Thematic Cluster: Colonial Techniques
Organizer(s)- Department III
- Wilko Hardenberg
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Please register with Wilko Hardenberg.
October 2017
- 18:00
- Colloquium
Time-Uncritical Media. Stretching and Shrinking Sound in the 1940s
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Colloquium
The Origins of Alpine Internationalism: Alpine Clubs as Networks of Knowledge, 1874–1920
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 14:00
- Political Epistemology Talk
On Collecting and Interpreting Biofacts
- Nicole Karafyllis (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany