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
June 2015
- 14:00
- Colloquium
The Emergence of Sign Languages
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Materialities Roundtable
- Several Speakers
- Ann-Sophie Lehmann
- Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota)
- Honghong Tinn (MPIWG)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Persuasion in the Air: Pig-squeal Radio, Marketing Muzak, and the Behaviorist Turn
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Alix Hui (Mississippi State University)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:00 to 16:00
- Predoctoral Event
Land Ahoy!
- Several Speakers
- Angela Axworthy
- Daniel Meßner
- Elaine Leong
- Elizabeth Merrill
- Floris Solleveld
- Gunthild Storeck
- Jaya Remond
- Jessica Lee
- Kevin Chang
- Nele Diekmann
- Christine von Oertzen
- Lino Camprubi
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 18:00
- Workshop
(In)visible labour—Knowledge Production in the Human Sciences
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
The Economics of Reproduction
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Bottled Knowledge. Reflections on Oil as a Salient Substance in Early Modern Netherlandish Painting
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 19:30
- Lecture
Albert Einstein als Mensch und Wissenschaftler
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Science, Materials, and Empire: Making Pure-Quinine in British India, 1867-1890
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Rohan Deb Roy (MPIWG/Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
May 2015
- 00:00
- Workshop
Forms of Life, Language, and Citizenship
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:30 to 18:30
- Workshop
Bernardino Telesio, the Natural Sciences and Medicine in the Renaissance
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Roberto Bondì (Cosenza)
- Elio Nenci
- Oreste Trabucco (Napoli)
- Hiro Hirai (Nijmegen)
- Miguel Ángel Granada (Barcelona)
- Rodolfo Garau
- Riccarda Suitner (Erfurt-Gotha)
- Pietro Daniel Omodeo
Organizer(s)- MPIWG
- Pietro Daniel Omodeo
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Workshop
The Many Births of the Test-Tube Baby: Proof and Publicity in Claims to Human in Vitro Fertilisation
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Waste, Scale, and Materiality in the African Anthropocene
- Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 12:00
- Colloquium
A Visual Imprint of Moving Air: Architectural Sound Photography, 1912–1935
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Sabine von Fischer (Zurich)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe (1500–1650)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
April 2015
- 18:30
- Lecture
The Rise and Fall of Quellenforschung
- Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italien)
Organizer(s)- BBAW
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Engineering, Cartography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:45 to 17:00
- Workshop
Chinese Local Gazetteers: Historical Method and Computerized Data Collection and Analysis
Organizer(s)- Shih-Pei Chen
- Martina Siebert
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany