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
November 2019
- Workshop
Knowing an Empire: Imperial Science in Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Empires
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Global History of the Swing
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Virtues of Imperfection: Caribbean Patent Systems in the 19th Century
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Text Analysis
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Hermann Weyl's Neighbourhoods: "Spaces" in Mathematics, Physics, Subjectivity, and Historiography
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 14:00 to 16:00
- Cold War Seminar Series
Changing Channel: What is Science Diplomacy and How Could It Help Us to Better Understand Cold War Science?
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Mind the Gap: Acoustical Answers to Cosmological Concerns in First Century B.C.E
October 2019
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Talk
Theoretical and Methodological Approaches on the History of Cartography
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Use of the Song Notebooks (biji 筆記) in the Local Gazetteers
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Source Transparency and Data—The Research Database of the Mosse Art Research Initiative (MARI)
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Seminar
Eddington’s Philosophy of Science
- Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
- Florian Laguens (Facultés libres de philosophie et de psychologie, Paris)
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Early Career Seminar
Animal Matter: Meat, Slaughterhouses, and Animals in Rio de Janeiro, the Capital City from the Brazilian Empire
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- Workshop
Anthropocene and Public Health
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 15:30 to 17:00
- Premodern Conversations Series
Géraud de Cordemoy on the Cartesian Theory of Animal Machines and the Use of Scripture
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 09:00 to 17:30
- Symposium
Fünfzig Jahre später – fünfzig Jahre weiter?
- Max Planck Research Program (GMPG)
- Several Speakers
- Angela D. Friederici
- Birgit Kolboske
- Ulla Weber
- Ute Frevert
- Karin Hausen
- Carola Sachse
- Anne Peters
- Lily Kather
- Sabine Balke
- Gunda Wößner
- Jutta Allmendinger
- Mechthild Koreuber
- Antje Wiener
Organizer(s)- Birgit Kolboske
- Ulla Weber
AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomGoethe Room- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Camera Obscura Interactive Database and Timeline
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Book of Felicity: Time and Fortune at the Ottoman Court
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Early Modern Textbooks and Digital Tools: Exploring the Transmission of Knowledge
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215
September 2019
- 11:00 to 12:00
- Early Career Seminar
Leibniz, Crafft, and the Episode of the Phosphorus
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265