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
September 2019
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Climate Strike
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Colloquium
"It Was the Nightingale, Not the Jumbo": Acoustic Borderlands at Frankfurt Airport
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
A Study of Commercial General Maps in the Late Qing Dynasty: The Case of Two Maps in the MPIWG Collection
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Seminar
Thoughts on Unity in a Divided State: Hans-Jürgen Treder's Early Ideas on the Unification of Physics
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Introduction to Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 12:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 09:45 to 15:30
- Workshop
Proteins & Fibers Inquiry IV: “Reading the Book by Ignoring the Words”
August 2019
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Seminar
The First Image of a Black Hole
- Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
- Heino Falcke (Radboud University, Nijmegen)
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room
July 2019
- Workshop
Analysis of Pre-Modern Maps of East Asia: Methods and Approaches
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- Talk
Celestial Bodies, Sovereign Gods: Sūrya, Candra and the Planets in Northern India in the First Millenium CE
- Dept. III
- Marion Frenger
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Visualization Project Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Tuning the World: Aesthetics, Acoustics, Industry, and Global Politics (1834–1939)
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
On the Conceptual, Physical and Mathematical Cogency of Quantum Field Theory on Curved Spacetime
Organizer(s)TU in LG (Second Closed Meeting)
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 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
- 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 Room
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
- 18:15 to 19:45
- Colloquium
Making Tape: The Regime of Spools, Razors, and Cassettes
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Room2249a