Past Events by Year
December 2018
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Where Can the Historian of Science Stand? Presentism and Philosophy in the Historiography of Science
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLise-Meitner-SaalContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium is a public event, open to all with no registration required. Attendance is mandatory for Institute’s members. For further information please email Ohad Parnes.
About This Series
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. The usual format is 45 minutes of presentation by the paper's author, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A discussion. No prior reading or preparation is required for this event series. Coffee and cake is served after the talk.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Citation Network as a Genealogy of Scholarly Research
- Research IT
- Gustaf Nelhans
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.
About This Series
The Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch Workshop occurs bi-weekly. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Schwarzschild Gravitational Field and Collapsed Stars
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
No registration necessary
About This Series
Further information: email officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- Workshop
Planning and Counter-Planning Keywords Manual Editors’ Meeting
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 10:30 to 12:30
- Workshop
Kohletag: A Multi-Disciplinary Workshop on the Past, Present, and Future of Coal Use in Germany and Beyond
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Thomas Turnbull
- Helge Wendt
- Timothy Moss
- Ludger Gailing
- Pao-Yu Oei
- Jeremias Herberg
- David Löw Beer
- Charlotte Brukermann
- Katja Müller
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219Contact and Registration
This workshop is open to all, but places are limited. Please register by emailing Thomas Turnbull in advance.
- 09:30 to 18:00
- Workshop
Transnational Conceptions of Nature and Ecology
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLaue RoomContact and Registration
This is a public event, no registration required. Please email Wilko Hardenberg for further information.
- 20:00 to 22:00
- Lecture
‚Ein Blick in das Ganze der Natur‘ heute – Hommage an Michel Serres
Organizer(s)AddressICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The event, like all events at the ICI Berlin, is open to the public, free of charge. The audience is presumed to consent to a possible recording on the part of the ICI Berlin. If you would like to attend the event yet might require assistance, please contact Event Management.
About This Series
Der Vortrag ‘Ein Blick in das Ganze der Natur’ heute – Hommage an Michel Serres ist Teil der ZfL Jahrestagung ‘Forms of the Whole’.
Organisiert vom Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL) in Kooperation mit dem ICI Berlin.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Women, Race, and Medicine: Black Midwives in Early 19th-century Ottoman Egypt
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Limited places are available. Please register by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email and available on the event page one week in advance. Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome!
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Seminar
Science without Law
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room
November 2018
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Pathfinders: Diverse Careers to and through the History of Science
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141Contact and Registration
Please register by sending an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by Tuesday, Nov. 27, as seats are limited. Coffee will be served before the talk, starting at 1:45.
About This Series
The idea behind the Pathfinders series is to figure out what matters in and to distinguished professional careers in history of science—widely defined—through a interview with a senior historian of science at MPIWG or from the outside.
The aspiration is to foster discussion about what important social, intellectual, and material factors can influence a scholarly career; crucial career-shaping choices and coincidences, inspiring articles and people, significant publications and material things that mattered. Feel free to spread to interested colleagues in Berlin and elsewhere.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Science in Conservation
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141Contact and Registration
About This Series
The group explores the porous disciplinary border between history of science and history of nature conservation. In doing so we aim to look at how science and conservation have acted upon each other in different social, political and cultural frameworks and also at how they have responded together to pressures and influences produced by the broader context. Wel look in particular at how the interaction between conservation science and nature conservation in all their facets has been shaped by issues of power, judgement, and materiality.
Further readings and discussion themes, ranging from the historiography of conservation (in the broadest sense possible) to crucial texts in conservation science and to your own writings on relevant issues, will be selected jointly over the term. All are available for perusal, ordered by date, online In case you have questions about the discussion group or a specific session feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Vegetable * Animal * Transformation
Organizer(s)Related Project(s)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Limited places are available. Please register by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email and available on the event page one week in advance. Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome!
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
DH Brown Bag Lunch
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Registration is required for external participants. To register, and for further information on the Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch series email Research IT Group.
About This Series
The Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch Workshop occurs bi-weekly. Each session explores a new topic; workshops are usually interactive, and we often invite external speakers. Please feel free to bring your lunch, and a laptop or notebook in order to participate!
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
Premodern Knowledge in Translation: Contemporary Historiographies
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
If you are interested in attending the workshop, please, sign up with a short note to Office Krause by 17 November 2018. A link to the readings will be sent to you upon your registration.
- 14:00 to 20:00
- Symposium
Freunde der offenen Gesellschaft
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Für eine kurze Rückmeldung, ob wir mit Ihnen rechnen können, wären wir dankbar. Kontakt: Matthias Tang (IASS)
- 14:00 to 15:30
The Art of Judgment in Wetlands: Landscape Ethics, Aesthetics, and Science in Nature Conservation
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Limited places are available. Please register by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email and available on the event page one week in advance. Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome!
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Seminar
“A Very Serious Difficulty”: the Role of Gauge Invariance in Quantum Electrodynamics (1929–1954)
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
- 12:00 to 14:00
- Lecture
Wie entsteht die moderne Wissenschaft / Wie entstehen wissenschaftliche Disziplinen?
About This Series
This event is a public talk at Freie Universität Berlin and takes place at Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin in Hörsaal A
- 14:30 to 17:30
- Discussion
Inaugural Event: The Future of Medieval Studies in the History of Science
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
The meeting is organised by Lorraine Daston and Katja Krause. If you wish to participate, please register with sek.krause@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de at your earliest convenience but no later than 7 November 2018.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
The Curious History of the Least Action Principle
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLise-Meitner-SaalContact and Registration
The Institute’s Colloquium is a public event, open to all with no registration required. Attendance is mandatory for Institute’s members. For further information please email Ohad Parnes.
About This Series
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. The usual format is 45 minutes of presentation by the paper’s author, followed by 45 minutes of Q&A discussion. No prior reading or preparation is required for this event series. Coffee and cake is served after the talk.