Archive
- Institute's Colloquium 2022–23: Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War
- Institute's Colloquium 2021–22: Trusting Science
- Institute's Colloquium 2020–21: Crisis and Capacity
- Institute's Colloquium 2019–20: History of Science: Right Here, Right Now
- Institute's Colloquium 2017–18: Beyond the Horizon: the History of Science in …
- Calendar of History of Science Events in Berlin
- Internal Events Calendar for Current Scholars
Past Events by Year
July 2013
- 15:00 to 18:00
- Summer Colloquium
The Transition from Form of Intuition to Formal Intuition in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason
Organizer(s)- „Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space“
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
June 2013
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Artists’ Scholarly Expertise for the Making of Bestsellers in 16th-century Basel
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Lecture
The Art of Mapping. Topographical Information, Design and Meaning in Early Modern Netherlandish Maps and Paintings
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Tanja Michalsky (Universität der Künste, Berlin)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00
- Seminar
The Toad-Kisser and the Bear´s Cave—Revisiting the Cold Case of Paul Kammerer´s Midwife Toad
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Geometry and Logic
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Lecture
Ingenuity in the Gallery: Art and Knowledge in the Gallery of Cornelis van der Geest
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Alexander Marr (University of Cambridge)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 19:00
- Scholars’ Forum
8th Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
Organizer(s)- Antje Gebhardt
- Lorenz Becker
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Prolegomena to a Theory of Innovation in Antiquity
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 16:30
- Workshop
Shaping Education and Distributing Areas of Knowledge in France, England, Germany, and the United States 1750-1950
- The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United States
- Several Speakers
- John Carson
- Kathryn M. Olesko (Georgetown)
- Sabine Arnaud
- Sophia Rosenfeld (Virginia)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00
- Seminar
The Biological Categorization of El Indígena in the First Half of the 20th Century
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Yuriditzi Pascacio Montijo
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
May 2013
- 16:00
- Lecture
“Let the Balance Be Just and the Weights Equal”? Another Look at Quentin Matsys's Moneychanger and his Wife.
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Joanna Woodall (Courtauld Institute, London)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Conference
Dark Matters: Contents and Discontents of Cold War Science
- 09:30 to 17:30
- Workshop
Finite Geometry, Indivisibles and Minima from the Middle Age to the 18th Century
- Several Speakers
- Sander de Boer (Radboud University)
- Angelika Bönker-Vallon (Universität Kassel)
- Richard T.W. Arthur (McMaster University)
- Douglas Jesseph (University of South Florida
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00
- Lecture
“Looking at Diversity”
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Katrin von Lehmann (Artist in Residence)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Chromatic Variations: Early Modern Practices of Color
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Amy Buono (MPIWG; Southern Methodist University, Dallas)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00
- Seminar
Epidemic Risks: Places, Religions, and Races in the Construction of International Public Health
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- João Rangel de Almeida
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Colour Knowledge in the 18th Century: Practice, Systematisation, and Natural Philosophy
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Zukunftsphilologie
- Several Speakers
- Whitney Cox (SOAS/University of Chicago)
- Islam Dayeh (Zukunftsphilologie/Freie Universität Berlin)
- Nicolai Sinai (University of Oxford)
- Matthias Schemmel
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00
- Institute's Colloquium
The Archaeology of Practical Knowledge: Instruments, Techniques and Craft Practice
- Stephen Johnston (Oxford)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Lecture
The Future: A History
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Glenn Adamson (V&A Museum/Royal College of Art)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany