Past Events by Year
July 2020
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Art of Judgement: A Speakers’ Series
Topic TBC
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
In case you have questions about the discussion group or a specific session feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
Please register with Wilko Hardenberg who will be glad to share the Zoom link and password with you.
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Workshop
Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China II
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
TBC
Contact and Registration
Please email Research IT Group for the Zoom link.
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
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!
June 2020
- 14:00 to 15:30
Modern Architecture and the Notion of “Artificial Climate”
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome! Due to space restrictions, we ask non-Dept. III participants to register in advance. Please send an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de if you would like to attend. We have ten spaces for visitors outside of the department.
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Lecture
Biodiversity in Times of Covid-19: Views from Germany, Italy, and the UK
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Jürgen Renn
- Fiona Claire Reynolds
- Stefano Boeri
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Please register via ZOOM Link or RSVP by June 29, 2020 at berlino.cultura@esteri.it
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Workshop
Locality and Geographical Knowledge in Imperial China I
- 10:00 to 19:00
- Workshop
CANCELED: 15th Scholars’ Forum for Literature and the History of Science
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
- Talk
POSTPONED: Democracy or Mediarchy? Agential Cuts and Mattering in the Collapsing Anthropocene
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany
Room2249a- 14:00 to 15:30
Gendered Physiology: The Sea Women and Physiological Research across the Pacific
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome! Due to space restrictions, we ask non-Dept. III participants to register in advance. Please send an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de if you would like to attend. We have ten spaces for visitors outside of the department.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Art of Judgement: A Speakers’ Series
Art of Judgment
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
In case you have questions about the discussion group or a specific session feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
Please register with Wilko Hardenberg who will be glad to share the Zoom link and password with you.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Navigating between Political Authorities: Chinese Rockefeller Fellows in Biology and Chemistry and their Career Trajectories, 1949–66
Contact and Registration
Please email Research IT Group for the Zoom link.
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
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!
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Research Seminar
CANCELED: Premodern Conversations
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215Contact and Registration
The research seminar is open to all; please contact Maria Avxentevskaya for further information.
About This Series
Premodern Conversations is a monthly research seminar (taking place on Tuesdays) on pre-modern and early-modern topics, aiming to offer researchers informal space to discuss their work-in-progress.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
CANCELED: Thinking the Wild
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
Open to all, no registration required. Please contact the organizer, Ohad Parnes, for further information.
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.
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
The group is open to all. If you are an external guest, please register by sending an email to Marianna Szczygielska at szczygielska@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
“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
- 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
- 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
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Presentation
Digital, Domestic, Disposable: The Life Sciences’ Many Cultures of Experimentation
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
If you would like to attend this meeting, please register via email with Tanja Neuendorf. Please note that places are limited.
- Workshop
Global South Cosmologies & Epistemologies: A Trans-Hemispheric Conversation
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
This meeting will take place on Zoom. It is a closed event open only to the following participants:
- Chakanetsa Mavhunga, MPIWG & MIT (Convener)
- Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Dechinta Centre for Research & Learning
- Walter Mignolo, Duke University
- Oyeronke Oyewumi, Stony Brook University
- Wang Hui, Tsinghua University
- Karamia Muller, University of Auckland
- Ahmed Ragab, Harvard University
- Dilip Menon, Wits University
- Geri Augusto, Brown University
- Shadreck Chirikure, Oxford University
Attending:
- African Crossroads (Hivos)
- Mi You, Academy of Media Arts Cologne
- Zoe Butt, The Factory Contemporary Arts Centre, Ho Chi Minh City
- Ekene Mekwunye, Riverside Productions, Nigeria
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
The Crowd: Digital Prosopography of Public Participation in Science
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Please email Research IT Group for the Zoom link.
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
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!
- 14:00 to 15:30
What One Should Know about a Locality: Analyzing Knowledge Categories from the Chinese Local Gazetteers
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members; those from other Departments and Research Groups are welcome! Due to space restrictions, we ask non-Dept. III participants to register in advance. Please send an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de if you would like to attend. We have ten spaces for visitors outside of the department.
- Cold War Seminar Series
CANCELED: Nuclear Diplomacy: How Knowledge Becomes Worthy of Global Circulation
- Changing Contexts and Practices of Basic Science during the Twentieth Century
- The Renaissance of General Relativity in the Post-World War II Period
- The Role of Institutions and Commissions in Forming Research Agendas: Networks …
- Networks, Network Science, and Knowledge Graphs
- IV. Knowledge in and of the Anthropocene
- Anthropocene Knowledge: Earth History in the Making
- Ecologizing Borderlands, Racializing Border People: The International Biologica…
- Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Open to all, no registration required. Please contact the organizers if you have any questions about the event.
About This Series
The seminar series "Science, Technology and Diplomacy During the Cold War and Beyond: Frameworks, Perspectives, and Challenges" aims to provide a forum that takes account of exciting developments within recent scholarship on science during the Cold War—especially, but not limited to, the approaches of transnational and global history. Read more about the series here.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Edition Open Access
- Research IT
- Several Speakers
- Lindy Divarci
- Klaus Thoden
Contact and Registration
This BBL will take place on Zoom. Please email Research IT Group for the Zoom link.
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
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!