Past Events by Year
July 2019
- Workshop
Analysis of Pre-Modern Maps of East Asia: Methods and Approaches
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
Cathleen Paethe (cpaethe@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)
- Talk
Celestial Bodies, Sovereign Gods: Sūrya, Candra and the Planets in Northern India in the First Millenium CE
- Dept. III
- Marion Frenger
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Sonja Brentjes (brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)
Visualization Project Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141Contact and Registration
Sonja Brentejes (brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)
- 14:00 to 15:30
Tuning the World: Aesthetics, Acoustics, Industry, and Global Politics (1834–1939)
Organizer(s)AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
On the Conceptual, Physical and Mathematical Cogency of Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Further information: email officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
No registration necessary
TU in LG (Second Closed Meeting)
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Shi-Pei Chen (schen@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
- 10:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
14th Scholars’ Forum for Literature and the History of Science
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
- 10:00 to 16:30
- Symposium
The Artist-Silkworm Interface: The Agricultural Treatise as Source and Scrutiny for Creating an Artist Book
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMozart RoomContact and Registration
Please register for this event by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de before June 27, 2019.
June 2019
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Artist Talk
The Silkworm Project
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Weijing (Vivian) Xu
- Lisa Onaga
Organizer(s)AddressArt Laboratory Berlin, Prinzenallee 34, 13359 Berlin, Germany
- 10:15 to 16:00
- Workshop
Proteins & Fibers Inquiry III—Betwixt and Between: Reconstructing Animal Histories with Teeth
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Laurence Douny
- Christina Warinner
- Lisa Onaga
- Soraya de Chadarevian
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
To register and access the pre-circulated readings and papers that will be discussed in this micro-workshop, please email event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Please include your name and affiliation in your email. Deadline June 15, 2019.
- 18:15 to 19:45
Making Tape: The Regime of Spools, Razors, and Cassettes
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Room2249aContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
Venue: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin · Department of Musicology and Media Science (Georgenstraße 47, room 0.01)
- 09:30 to 18:00
- Conference
Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The event is open to up to 20 visitors on a first-to-register-first-serve basis. We would, therefore, kindly ask you to register with our office at your earliest convenience, but no later than Friday, June 21, 2019.
- 14:00 to 15:30
A Medieval Geographical Manuscript from Dunhuang: The Illustrated Itineraries of Shazhou (Shazhou tujing)
AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
Limited places are available. Please register by contacting Danyang Zhang.
- Workshop
Opening the Doors of the Studio
AddressHarnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
For registration and further information please contact: officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- Workshop
Moving Crops
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141Contact and Registration
- Party
Solstice Celebrations: Ein Fest für Raine Daston
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Philosophy of the Historiography of Science
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
The Institute’s Colloquium fosters intellectual exchange across departments and beyond the Institute. The Colloquium is a public event, open to all with no registration required. Members of the Institute are strongly encouraged to attend. 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.
Perspectives on Sound, Science, and Technology
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 15:30
- Workshop
Tangut Astrology: Visuality, Materiality, Transculturalism
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Dagmar Schäfer
- Zhao Lu
- Michelle Malina McCoy
- Liao Yang
- Jeffrey Kotyk
- Sonja Brentjes
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomKöhler RoomContact and Registration
Registration is possible until June 13, 2019.
Please note, that only limited space is available. First come, first serve. Furthermore, catering is only available for invited speakers.For further questions please contact event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 16:00 to 17:00
- Performative Lecture
Hopium Economy: Substance Dependencies and the Technosphere
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Martina Beate Geissler
- Oliver Sann
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room