The Early Career Seminar opens itself to early career researchers from across the Institute to discuss their work in a formal, yet friendly setting. We particularly welcome submissions of work in progress, such as dissertation chapters and drafts of papers intended for publication.

Sessions are held on Wednesdays, from 11:00 to 12:00, once a month.

Each session consists of a five-minute introduction by the presenter, followed by a discussion for the remainder of the hour concerning the presenter's pre-circulated paper. Pre-circulated papers should not exceed ca. 30 pages. Presenters are requested to submit their work to the organizers at least one week in advance of their session.

1. a short "provocation text" to carry the empirical element and to provoke us to look further in attempting to attend to something that troubles. Everyone is expected to read that text;
2. two or three theoretical or descriptive papers that we feel might be useful in attending to the trouble. These are optional readings.

The idea is that everyone who attends the discussion will have read at least the short provocation paper and bring some "troubles" to the meeting.

Premodern Conversations is a monthly seminar on pre-modern and early-modern topics, aiming to offer researchers informal space to discuss their work-in-progress. Our sessions take place in Room V005, the seminar room of the Villa, Harnackstraße 5. If you have not visited us before, the Villa is 2 minutes walk from the back entrance of the MPIWG. The seminar room is on the ground floor on the right-hand side through the glass fire door.

Brown Bag Lunch is a bi-weekly meeting of researchers at the MPIWG who use or want to learn more about digital research methods, broadly encompassed by the term Digital Humanities. In the Brown Bag Lunch meetings, researchers can discuss tools, share ideas and experiences (good and bad), and learn from each other. 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!

Brown Bag Lunch is a bi-weekly meeting of researchers at the MPIWG who use or want to learn more about digital research methods, broadly encompassed by the term Digital Humanities. In the Brown Bag Lunch meetings, researchers can discuss tools, share ideas and experiences (good and bad), and learn from each other. 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!

The Early Career Seminar opens itself to early career researchers from across the Institute to discuss their work in a formal, yet friendly setting. We particularly welcome submissions of work in progress, such as dissertation chapters and drafts of papers intended for publication.

Sessions are held on Wednesdays, from 11:00 to 12:00, once a month.

Each session consists of a five-minute introduction by the presenter, followed by a discussion for the remainder of the hour concerning the presenter's pre-circulated paper. Pre-circulated papers should not exceed ca. 30 pages. Presenters are requested to submit their work to the organizers at least one week in advance of their session.

“Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism” is a monthly reading seminar interrogating "postcolonial" as an analytic concept in the history of science. The goal is to understand the ethics and mechanisms of our own epistemic practices as they relate to politics and power. We aim to examine the ways that epistemology is both historically contingent and actively produced within the history of science with the goal of troubling our disciplinary positions. For each meeting we list and circulate

1. a short ‘provocative text’ to carry the empirical element and to provoke us to go wider in attempting to attend to something that troubles. Everyone is expected to read that text
2. two or three "theoretical" or descriptive papers that we feel might be useful in "attending to the trouble." These are optional readings. The idea is that everyone who attends the discussion will have read at least the short provocation paper and bring some "troubles" to the meeting

Brown Bag Lunch is a bi-weekly meeting of researchers at the MPIWG who use or want to learn more about digital research methods, broadly encompassed by the term Digital Humanities. In the Brown Bag Lunch meetings, researchers can discuss tools, share ideas and experiences (good and bad), and learn from each other. 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!

“Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism” is a monthly reading seminar interrogating "postcolonial" as an analytic concept in the history of science. The goal is to understand the ethics and mechanisms of our own epistemic practices as they relate to politics and power. We aim to examine the ways that epistemology is both historically contingent and actively produced within the history of science with the goal of troubling our disciplinary positions. For each meeting we list and circulate

1. a short ‘provocative text’ to carry the empirical element and to provoke us to go wider in attempting to attend to something that troubles. Everyone is expected to read that text
2. two or three "theoretical" or descriptive papers that we feel might be useful in "attending to the trouble." These are optional readings. The idea is that everyone who attends the discussion will have read at least the short provocation paper and bring some "troubles" to the meeting