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Past Events by Year
September 2013
- 00:00
- Workshop
Early Modern Colour Practices, 1450–1650
Organizer(s)- Sven Dupré
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 20:00
- Lecture
Yehuda Elkana as Intellectual
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Symposium
From Local Universalism to Global Contextualism—A Symposium in Commemoration of the Work of Yehuda Elkana
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
An Intellectual Life Across Disciplines
- Several Speakers
- G. Amelino-Camelia
- K. Bradonjić
- H.G. Dosch
- D. Salisbury
- K. Sundermeyer
- B. Schroer
- D. Guilini
- S. Sarkar
- P. Bokulich
- T. Cao
- J. Kouneiher
- N. Sieroka
- R. Lopes Coelho
- J. Stachel
- J. Eisenstaedt
- D. Howard
- T. Sauer
- F. Balibar
- J. Wells
- T. Kuczynski
- K. Gavroglu
- Annette Vogt
- Roberto Lalli
- Matthias Schemmel
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 19:00
- Book Presentation
Verändern durch Wissen. Chancen und Herausforderungen demokratischer Beteiligung: von Stuttgart 21 bis zur Energiewende
- Several Speakers
- Günther Bachmann
- Volker Hauff
- Wolfram König
- Reinhard Loske
- Jacob Radloff
- Jürgen Renn
- Klaus Töpfer
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Conference
Transfer of Knowledge in the Iberian Colonial World
- Several Speakers
- Sonja Brentjes
- Antonio Barrera
- Nuria Valverde
- Helge Wendt
- Timothy D. Walker
- Stefanie Gänger
- Angélica Morales Sarabia
- Lars Kirkhusmo Pharo
- Florike Egmond
- Peter Mason
- Mauricio Sánchez Menchero
- José Pardo-Tomás
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00 to 18:00
- Colloquium
Signs of Change: Symbols and Illustrations in Late Medieval Alchemical Manuscripts
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
August 2013
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Colloquium
Pharmacogenomics, Color/Race and Human Population Genetic Diversity: A View from Brazil (Co-Authored with Glaucia Oliveira da Silva, Federal Fluminense University, Rio de Janeiro).
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Ricardo Ventura Santos (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation and National Museum, Rio de Janeiro)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
Aristotelisms in Syriac and Arabic
Organizer(s)- Sonja Brentjes
- Stefan Paul Trzeciok
- Helge Wendt
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Colloquium
What is ‘Indigenous Health’ in Venezuela? An Anthropological (Mis)Understanding.
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Johanna Gonçalves Martin (University of Cambridge)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Colloquium
From Colonial to International Nutritional Standards: the Episteme of Human Variation and the Biopolitics of Difference (1932–1951)
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Maria Letitia Galluzzi Bizzo (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Summer Colloquium
On David Hilbert’s Arithmetization of Geometry: the Axiomatic Method and the Unity of Mathematics
- Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
- Eduardo Giovannini (University of Buenos Aires)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Summer Colloquium
Ptolemy on Uniform Circular Motion
- Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
- Jacqueline Feke (University of Chicago)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Summer Colloquium
Quantities and Causation: Leibniz’s Use of the Principle of the Equivalence of Hypotheses
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
July 2013
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Summer Colloquium
The ‘Euclidization’ of Ptolemaic Astronomy in the Middle Ages
- Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
- Henry Zepeda (University of Oklahoma)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Summer Colloquium
The Purpose, Modalities and Limits of the Admission of Movement in the Definition and Study of Geometrical Objects in the Sixteenth-century Euclidean Tradition: Oronce Fine, Jacques Peletier and Christoph Clavius
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Summer Colloquium
The Controversy between Christiaan Huygens and James Gregory over the Quadrature of the Circle
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 17:00 to 19:00
- Discussion
Was weiß das Ohr? Zum Hör-Wissen im Wandel der Moderne
- Several Speakers
- Wolfgang Auhagen (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg)
- Lorraine Daston
- Marcus Gammel (Deutschlandfunk, Berlin)
- Stefan Koelsch (FU, Berlin)
- Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University)
- Stefan Weinzierl (TU, Berlin)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 18:00
- Summer Colloquium
Kant on the Articulation of Reality
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany