Past Events by Year
December 2020
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Name, Thing Named, and Signification in Classic Islamic Theology
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Please note that this event series will take place on Zoom and thus pre-registration is required. All reading materials will be circulated one week in advance. For more information and registering please contact Maria Avxentevskaya.
About This Series
The series of reading sessions "The Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs" explores how the premodern experiences of the natural world were expressed, recorded, and communicated through verbal, visual, and semiotic means. By analyzing the premodern theorizing and practices concerning signification we aim to clarify how diverse views on it as an intellectual, cognitive, and performative process affected the production of knowledge in the premodern world. The group will meet online in November 2020 to February 2021 and discuss the primary sources suggested and introduced at each session by the group participants specializing in historical areas from classical to premodern traditions up to the eighteenth century on a global scale.
- 10:30 to 11:30
- Early Career Seminar
Horses in Bohai and Jurchen Societies: Based on Osteological Studies from the South Part of the Russian Far East
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
All scholars throughout the Institute are encouraged to attend and contribute to the discussion. We do hope that many of you will take advantage of this wonderful opportunity for young researchers across the Institute to share their work in progress!
Please join this online meeting on Zoom and pre-register by writing to Shehab Ismail.
External participants should register in advance with Shehab. Please also contact him for further information.
About This Series
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.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Cultural Translation Processes in 16th Century Tunisia: The Case of ´Alī B. Aḥmad B. Muḥammad Al-Sharafī from Sfax
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact 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.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email one week in advance.
November 2020
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Formal or Material? Gauge and the Gravity-Electromagnetism Analogy
- Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
- Several Speakers
- Noah Stemeroff
- Guy Hetzroni
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
This event takes place online. All are welcome, no registration required.
For further information please email officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Discussion Group
Measuring the Earth Discussion Group
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
This event will take place online. If you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session, or to register, please contact Wilko Hardenberg.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Signification in Ancient Greek Philosophy
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Please note that this event series will take place on Zoom and thus pre-registration is required. All reading materials will be circulated one week in advance. For more information and registering please contact Maria Avxentevskaya.
About This Series
The series of reading sessions "The Premodern History of Signification: Putting Experiences into Words, Images, and Signs" explores how the premodern experiences of the natural world were expressed, recorded, and communicated through verbal, visual, and semiotic means. By analyzing the premodern theorizing and practices concerning signification we aim to clarify how diverse views on it as an intellectual, cognitive, and performative process affected the production of knowledge in the premodern world. The group will meet online in November 2020 to February 2021 and discuss the primary sources suggested and introduced at each session by the group participants specializing in historical areas from classical to premodern traditions up to the eighteenth century on a global scale.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Empire and Information: How to be Understood in the Wake of the Mongol Empire’s Fall
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact 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.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email one week in advance.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Digital Humanities: Multilinguality, Non-Latin Scripts and the Library
- Research IT
- Several Speakers
- Cosima Wagner
- Martin Lee
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!
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Everyone is welcome to join. For registration or any questions about the seminar please contact Marianna Szczygielska.
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
- Institute's Colloquium
Gendered Knowledges in Times of Crisis
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
The Institute’s Colloquium occurs once per month during the academic year. For further information about the series, please contact Lisa Onaga and/or Stephanie Hood.
This event will take place online: the meeting link will be sent to Institute members via MPIWG-Announce the week before the event.
A limited number of places are available to external participants—please email public@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de by the day before the event to register.
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Seminar
How "Epistemological Letters" Changed the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
This event takes place online. All are welcome, no registration required.
For further information please email officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 17:00 to 18:30
- Workshop
Visualizing Geographies of Late Qing and Republican China: A CHMap Workshop
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Please note that this workshop will take place on Zoom and pre-registration is required here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email. For further information, please contact Nung-yao Lin.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Making Animal Materialities in Time
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Laurence Douny
- Lisa Onaga
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact 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.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email one week in advance.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Digital Scholarship in the Study of Historical Japanese Earthquakes
- Research IT
- Yuta Hashimoto
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
“The Octave Pleases Everybody”: Marin Mersenne and the Universality of Harmony
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact 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.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email one week in advance.
October 2020
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Discussion Group
The Earthquake Observers: Disaster Science from Lisbon to Richter
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
If you have questions about the discussion group or a specific session feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
- 14:00 to 15:30
Mapping China in 18th Century: Hand-drawn Maps from the "Qing Atlas Tradition" at the Museum am Rothenbaum in Hamburg
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact 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.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquium series runs weekly (usually Tuesdays) during the semester. The paper for pre-reading is circulated by email one week in advance.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
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!
- 11:00 to 13:30
- Workshop
The Socio-Material History of Masked Societies in East Asia: A Virtual Workshop
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
To join this virtual workshop, please register your name and institutional affiliation via email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de to register by October 21, 2020. For further questions, please contact Jaehwan Hyun.
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Launch Event
Research Circuit: LMRG "China in the Global System of Science"
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany