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
March 2016
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Mozart as a Reader: Problems in the Historiography of Musical Enlightenment
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Laurenz Lütteken (Universität Zürich)
- 14:30 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Counting for Empire: the 1925 National Census and Colonial Korea's Experience of a New Demographic Regime
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
Publishing Open Access in the Max Planck Society
- Library
- Several Speakers
- Ralf Schimmer
- Esther Chen
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room
February 2016
- 15:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Knowledge and Institutions in the Middle Ages
- Johannes Helmrath
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Colloquium
Subterranean Economies. Material and Epistemic Culture of the Mines in Early Modern Germany (1490-1630)
Organizer(s)- Sven Dupré
- Ohad Parnes
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:30 to 18:00
- Workshop
Citizen Science in Historical Perspective
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 17:00 to 19:00
Expertise
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:30 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Point Zero. The Mean Sea-level in Practice, Science, and Diplomacy
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Sonic Refugia: Nature, Architecture and Landscape Design in West Berlin
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Sandra Jaspers
- 10:00 to 17:30
- Workshop
Listening to the Archive: Histories of Sound Data in the Humanities and Sciences
- Patrick Feaster
Organizer(s)- Jochen Hennig (Humboldt University Berlin)
- Britta Lange
- Carolyn Birdsall
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Art of Judgement: A Speakers’ Series
Charting the Flow: Water Science and State Hydrography in the Po Watershed
- Dept. III
- Giacomo Parrinello
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:00 to 18:00
- Workshop
Water Management in Ancient Civilisations
Organizer(s)- 14:30 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Early Visions of Geo-engineering
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 19:30
- External/Cooperation Event
Before Scientific Revolutions: Error and the Fear of Error
- 15:00 to 19:00
- Workshop
Experiencing the Global Environment
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:30 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Bricks and Mortar: The Materials of Nation-building in 1970s Tanzania
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 17:00
- Conference
Die Bibliothek als Verlag? Bibliotheken als Dienstleister im Rahmen wissenschaftlichen Publizierens
- Several Speakers
- Esther Chen
- Maria Effinger
- Christina Riesenweber
- Oliver Obst
Organizer(s)- Initiative Fortbildung fur wissenschaftliche Spezialbibliotheken und verwandte Einrichtungen e.V. in cooperation with the Library of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
January 2016
- 15:00
- Lecture
Towards Integrated Knowledge Management for Cultural Historical Research
- Martin Doerr (ICS/Heraklion)
Organizer(s)- Esther Chen
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Forms of Knowledge and Their Settings. Some Ancient Greek Cases
- Markus Asper
Organizer(s)- Giulia Giannini
- Pietro D. Omodeo
- Matthias Schemmel
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Conference
Material Cultures of Knowledge: Netze wissenschafts-politischer Beziehungen: zwischen Taiwan und Deutschland in Früher Neuzeit und Moderne
Organizer(s)- Dagmar Schäfer
- Bettina Wahrig
- Ku-Ming Chang
- Shi-Yung Liu
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany