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- Institute's Colloquium 2022–23: Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War
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- Institute's Colloquium 2020–21: Crisis and Capacity
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- Calendar of History of Science Events in Berlin
- Internal Events Calendar for Current Scholars
Past Events by Year
October 2014
- 09:00
- Conference
The Making of Useful Knowledge
- Several Speakers
- Angela Creager
- Karel Davids
- Jonathan Harwood
- Stephen Johnston
- Ursula Klein
- Thomas Morel
- Giuditta Parolini
- Cesare Pastorino
- Gerhard Rammer
- Simona Valeriani
Organizer(s)- Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
Johannes Vermeer’s Mastery of Spatial Illusion
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Jørgen Wadum (National Gallery of Denmark)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 17:00
- Lecture
The Present of the Historian
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Strings and the History of Presence
- Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
The Whiteness of Bones: Techniques and Aesthetics of the Skeleton, 1500–1800
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Anita Guerrini (MPIWG, Oregon State University)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
September 2014
- 16:00
- Colloquium
The Secret of Stucco in Early Modern Italy
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Reading How-To
Organizer(s)- Sven Dupré (MPIWG)
- Elaine Leong
- Doris Oltrogge
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
The Skeleton as Object and Artefact in Early Modern Europe
- Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Seminar
Nonhuman Empires
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
August 2014
- 18:30 to 20:30
- Lecture
The Roaring "Twenties": Noise in New York City circa 1930
- Emily Thompson (University of Princeton)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:30 to 20:30
- Lecture
Sound Signatures in Recorded Voices: Speaker Identification at the Stasi Headquarters, 1960s-1980s
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Summer School
Sound Signatures
Organizer(s)- Carolyn Birdsall
- Myles Jackson
- Mara Mills
- Viktoria Tkaczyk
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
July 2014
- 10:30 to 17:30
- Workshop
Mental Troubles, Bodily Troubles, Medical Categories: What Kinds of Stories Can We Write?
- The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United States
- Several Speakers
- Sabine Arnaud
- John Carson
- Anne Harrington
- Mary Terrall
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Itineraries of Materials, Recipes, Techniques, and Knowledge in the Early Modern World (Part II)
- Dept. Daston
- Several Speakers
- Tara Alberts
- Francesca Bray
- Che-chia Chang
- Ming Chen
- Georg Freise
- Asaf Goldschmidt
- Feza Günergun
- Angela Ki Che Leung
- Elaine Leong
- Maria Mavroudi
- Luca Mola
- Carla Nappi
- Dhruv Raina
- Angela Schottenhammer
- Yulian Wu
- Ronit Yoeli-Tlalim
Organizer(s)- Pamela Smith
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00
- Seminar
Anthropology at War: Robert H. Lowie and the Transformation of the Culture Concept, 1904–1954
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 19:00
- Scholars’ Forum
9th Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:30
- Lecture
Drei Dimensionen von Modellen: Kunst, Gelehrtentum und Staatswesen im China des 17. Jahrhundert
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
June 2014
- 09:30 to 00:00
- Conference
Studies of Knowledge in Eurasia and Africa: Issues of Methodology and Future Perspectives
- Dept. IDept. III
- Several Speakers
- Dagmar Schäfer
- Fa-ti Fan
- Gottfried Hagen
- Joachim Kurtz
- Keren Abbou
- Leigh Chipman
- Michael Stanley-Baker
- Miri Shefer-Mossensohn
- Nahyan Fancy
- Paulina Lewicki
- Peter Adamson
- Reza Pourjavady
- Rivka Feldhay
- Robert Morrison
- Scott Mandelbrote
- Sonja Brentjes
- Tzvi Langermann
- Uwe Vagelpohl
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:30
Divide and Conquer: Human Nature between Science, Philosophy and Politics
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany