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
April 2015
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Texts, Images and Machines in the Spread of Ancient Mechanics
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Instruments with Air Columns: Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Theobald Boehm, Organ Pipes, and Flutes
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Myles Jackson (NYU)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Lecture
100 Jahre Giftgaskrieg: Forschung, Einsatz, Folgen chemischer Massenvernichtungswaffen
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 19:00 to 00:00
- Play
„Zur Endlösung der Zigeunerfrage“ – Ein fiktives Symposium – Berlin, 16. Dezember 1942
- 12:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
The Global Knowledge Society
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Colloquium
The 1930 Conference in Rome and the First Handbooks on Scientific Analysis of Artworks
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Methods Intensive Workshop
The Transmission of Technology: Some Theoretical and Methodological Issues in the Study of the History of Metallurgy in Ancient China.
- Dept. III
- Jianjun Mei (Needham Research Institute/Cambridge)
Organizer(s)- Department III
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
March 2015
- 14:00
- Lecture
Comparative Chaos: Microscopic Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in the 1830s and 1840s
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Migration of Natural Historical Knowledge Between Media, 1550–1680
Organizer(s)- Sven Dupré (MPIWG)
- Florike Egmond (Leiden University)
- Marrigje Rikken (Leiden University)
- Paul J. Smith (Leiden University)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
What do Historians want from “Materiality”? Reflections on Theory and the Humanities since the 1970s
- Martin Collins (Smithsonian Institution)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Science Goes to War: World War I and the Industrialisation of Acoustics
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Cultures of Alloy: Technology and Community in Early Medieval Europe
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Ittai Weinryb (Fellow, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin / Bard Graduate Center, NYC)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00 to 17:00
- Seminar
Grasping the Sky: Conveying Astronomical Knowledge in the Case of Clock-Driven Celestial Globes by Johann Reinhold and Georg Roll
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Susanne Thürigen M.A. (MPIWG/LMU, Munich)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
February 2015
- 19:00 to 00:00
„Zur Endlösung der Zigeunerfrage“ – Ein fiktives Symposium – Berlin, 16. Dezember 1942
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Pictures in the Head. Optical Arguments for and against Indirect Perception in 17th-Century England
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 19:00 to 00:00
„Zur Endlösung der Zigeunerfrage“ – Ein fiktives Symposium – Berlin, 16. Dezember 1942
- 17:00 to 21:30
Grundlagenforschung und Zukunftsgestaltung: “Big Data—Quality from Quantity?“
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Magic in the Black Box? Anthropological Reflections on Skilled Practice, Technical Ignorance and the Materiality of Things
- Mareile Flitsch (Völkerkundemuseum Universität Zürich)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:30 to 13:00
- Book Presentation
Galileo Galilei—New Sources
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Jürgen Renn
- Matteo Valleriani
- Giulia Giannini
- Michele Camerota
- Paolo Galluzzi
- Iolanda Rolfo
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany