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
October 2015
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Communication Engineering: Efficiency and Deficiency
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
September 2015
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Colloquium
How Desks Declaim and Porcelain Preaches: On the Transmission of Knowledge and the Material Arts in Early Modern Europe
Organizer(s)- Sven Dupré
- Ohad Parnes
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 12:30 to 18:30
- Workshop
Open Forum for History of the Life Sciences
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00
- Lecture
Writing Journalism, Writing History of Science: Contradiction or Complement?
- Andreas Bernard
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Nietzsche’s Tuning Fork and the Birth of Acoustics
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
July 2015
- 10:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
How to Reconstruct Archetypal Diagrams from Manuscript Diagrams?
- Eunsoo Lee (Stanford University)
Organizer(s)- Vincenzo De Risi
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Architectonic Principles in Leibniz’s Physics
- Nabeel Hamid (University of Pennsylvania)
Organizer(s)- Vincenzo De Risi
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Making the Qing Palace Machine Work (Part II)
Organizer(s)- Martina Siebert
- Kaijun Chen
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 19:00
- Scholars’ Forum
11th Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
Organizer(s)- Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 19:00
- Scholars’ Forum
10th Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:15 to 18:30
- Workshop
The Senses and the Methodology of Reconstruction—Towards a History of Sensuous Experiences in the Making of the Arts and Knowledge
Organizer(s)- Marjolijn Bol
- Sven Dupré (MPIWG/Freie Universität Berlin)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Perspective on Stage: Optics and Politics of Theatrical Scenery in Early Modern Europe
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Conference
Geometry and Space in the Early Modern Age
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:30
- Lecture
Premature Archivalism in Early Modern Europe
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Conference
Practices of Historical Research. Continuity and Change during the 18th and 19th Centuries
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
June 2015
- 08:45 to 18:15
- Conference
Towards a History of Epistemic Genres: Textbook and Commentary, Case and Recipe in the Making of Medical Knowledge
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Lecture
Autobiographies of Artifacts
- Dept. IIIDept. Daston
- Ken Alder (Northwestern University)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 18:15
- Workshop
Geometry and Philosophy of Space in Isaac Barrow
- Several Speakers
- Antoni Malet
- Edward Slowik (Winona State University)
- Ian Stewart (King’s College, Halifax)
- Marco Panza (Université Paris 1; CNRS)
Organizer(s)- Davide Crippa
- Marco Panza (Université Paris 1; CNRS)
- Vincenzo De Risi
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00
- Colloquium
The Psychology and Psychiatry of Deafness: Defining and Redefining Deaf Normalcy
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany