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December 2013
- 00:00
- Colloquium
Colloquium Commemorating Peter Damerow
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Asylums and the Data of Human Heredity
- Ted Porter (UCLS and Wiko)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Leonardo’s Liquid Bodies
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Frank Fehrenbach (University of Hamburg)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Perspectives on Deafness in 18th to 20th Century France and Russia
- The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United States
- Several Speakers
- Sabine Arnaud
- Claire Shaw
- Florence Encrevé (University of Paris VIII)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
- 00:00
- Conference
Ma(n)chines—Life Forms Machines
November 2013
- 09:00 to 18:00
- Colloquium
Berlin Doctoral Forum for the History of Science
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
If you want to take part, please register by contacting Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (secretary)
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Colloquium
Making Human Difference Genetic in the 1950s
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Colloquium
‘First Encounters’: Anthropological Field Work in ‘Mixed Race’ Aboriginal Communities in Australia, 1940–1965
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Kathryn Ticehurst (University of Sydney)
Organizer(s)- Max Planck Research Group Lipphardt
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
“Whether this Art Owes More to Nature, or Nature to this Art:” Visualizing the Body in Eighteenth-Century Italy
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
What's in a Place? Orientation Workshop for Historical Research Projects Using Geographical Data and GIS Technology
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
How Physicians Know: From Ars Excerpendi to the Ditto Machine
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- 19:00
- Discussion
Kulturgut im Zeitalter der digitalen Reproduzierbarkeit. Was bringt Open Access Museen und Sammlungen?
- Several Speakers
- Hermann Parzinger
- Jürgen Renn
- 00:00
- Conference
The Structures of Practical Knowledge
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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October 2013
- 00:00
- Conference
Historicizing Big Data
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Herculean and Promethean Adventures on Long Journeys to the Future
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Plant Tributes and Trials in the French Empire, 1670–1730
- Emma Spary (University of Cambridge and MPIWG)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- 00:00
- Symposium
Das Wissen der Kunst und die Kunst des Wissens
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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- 15:30 to 17:30
- Colloquium
Different Forms. Touching Details of Measured Humans’ Files around 1900 in the Netherlands
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Geertje Mak (History Department/Institute for Gender Studies, Radboud University, The Netherlands)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Art, Value, Common Knowledge, and Natural History: The Adversaria of Ernst Brinck (1582-1649)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Alum—A Material at the Crossroads of the Arts, Crafts, and Learned Inquiry
Organizer(s)- Sven Dupré
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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