• 00:00
• Workshop

Testing Drugs and Trying Cures Workshop

• Dept. DastonReading & Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe
• Several Speakers
• Antonio Barrera-Osorio
• Samir Boumediene
• Michael Bycroft
• Francesco Paolo de Ceglia
• Harold Cook
• Marta Hanson
• Lauren Kassell
• Michael McVaugh
• Andrew Mendelsohn
• Carla Nappi
• Katharine Park
• Gianna Pomata
• Valentina Pugliano
• Christelle Rabier and Evan Ragland

• 16:00
• Colloquium

Giuseppe Salviati‘s Libro Dei Suoni: Painting and Knowledge in Late Renaissance Venice

• Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
• Mattia Biffis (Casva, Washington DC)

• 00:00
• Conference

Geometry and Mechanics

• Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
• Several Speakers
• Richard Arthur
• Angela Axworthy
• Michael Friedman
• Daniel Garber (Princeton)
• Antoni Malet
• Reviel Netz (Stanford)
• Marco Panza (CNRS, Paris)
• Helmut Pulte (Bochum)
• Matthias Schemmel
• George Smith (Tufts)

• 12:00 to 13:30
• Reading Group

Healing at a Distance: Botanical Cures and the Colonies in the Eighteenth Century

• Dept. DastonReading & Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe

• 10:00 to 17:30
• Workshop

Aristotle in Byzantium

• Dept. I
• Several Speakers
• Erika Gielen (KU Leuven)
• Anne-Laurence Caudano (University of Winnipeg)
• Eleni Pappa (FU Berlin)
• Martin Borchert (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen)

• 17:00
• Lecture

What is a concept?

• The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United States
• Jocelyn Benoist (Professor of Philosophy at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)

• 15:00
• Lecture

The Vulnerability of the Ordinay. Austin and Performativity

• The Construction of Norms in 17th to 19th-Century Europe & the United States
• Sandra Laugier

• 12:30

Walther Nernst (25. Juni 1864 Briesen – 18. November 1941 Zibelle)

• 12:00 to 13:30
• Reading Group

Viper and Snake Stones

• Dept. DastonReading & Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe

• 15:00 to 16:30
• Institute's Colloquium

Leibniz Editions and Narrative Repetition in the History of Science

• Andre Wakefield

• 12:00 to 13:30
• Reading Group

Cures and “Experience-Based Medicine” in the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance

• Dept. DastonReading & Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe

• 11:00
• Seminar

‘Fossil Man’ Conquers America: The American Museum of Natural History and the Rise of a Mass Culture of Deep Time

• Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
• Marianne Sommer

• 11:00

“Dance as the Measure of Man”: Alan Lomax, Choreometrics, and the World Geography Movement

• Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
• Whitney Laemmli (MPIWG, University of Pennsylvania)

• 14:00
• Seminar

Regulating Susceptibilities: Helen MacMurchy and the Canadian Public Health Movement in the Interwar Years

• Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
• Sarah Blacker

• 11:00
• Lecture

Improving by Translating? The Contorted History of the English Translation of Ludwik Fleck’s Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact

• Martina Schlünder

• 09:00 to 13:30
• Predoctoral Event

Land Ahoy!

• Dept. I
• Several Speakers
• Paul Stefan Trzeciok
• Anna Jerratsch
• Rodolfo Garau
• Hajime Inaba
• Marta Jordi Taltavull
• Martin Jähnert
• Anna Perlina
• Martin Fechner

• 15:00 to 17:00
• Colloquium

On Euler’s Spherical Geometry

• Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
• Athanase Papadopoulos (Université de Strasbourg)

• 15:00 to 17:00
• Colloquium

Ancient Theorems and Problems

• Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space
• Benjamin Morison (Princeton)

• 10:30 to 12:00
• Lecture

Medical Craftsmanship Between Subjectivity and Empiricism

• Dept. III
• Volker Scheid

• 11:00 to 13:30
• Reading Group

Peruvian Bark Recipes: A Few Drops that Changed the World

• Dept. DastonReading & Writing Nature in Early Modern Europe
• Samir Boumediene