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- Institute's Colloquium 2021–22: Trusting Science
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Past Events by Year
December 2021
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
Non-specific (Generic) Psychopathology: Considerations from the Theory of Open Concepts
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Peter Zachar
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Demazeux
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The seminar series is open to all. To receive the zoom link, please email Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (officekeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This research seminar is hosted by the Bordeaux-Berlin Working Group on Translating Validity in Psychiatric Research and brings together historians, philosophers, psychiatrists and biomedical researchers.
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Discussion Group
Bodily Waste
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
This is a hybrid event. To register, please contact Maria Pirogovskaya.
About This Series
The group will scrutinize the categories of "waste" and "the body." We will examine the classificatory principles applied to define them in their temporal and geographical variations, and the meanings and potentials of waste in various sociocultural settings in order to allow for a better understanding of the ideologies and practices of dealing with animal and human bodies. We will explore this versatile topic through approaches from history of science and medicine, anthropology, environmental history and urban studies.
The general questions for discussion and investigation include (but are not limited to):
- What can be considered waste and what are the conditions and presuppositions for classifying it as such?
- How does bodily waste as well as regulations, practices, and values related to it enable better understanding of 'the human' and 'the animal'
- What opportunities does bodily waste open up for theorizing and thinking about knowledge production and society?
- 08:00 to 10:00
- Seminar
Water’s Benefits: Scholarly Knowledge and Statecraft Science
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The seminar is open to all. To register, contact Chun Xu (cxu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
- 14:30 to 16:00
- Research Workshop
Two Seed Stories: Integration of Climate Change into Chinese Social Science of Agriculture
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
For further information about the LMRG Research Workshop series, specific session or registration (a limited number of places are available), please contact Dieu Linh Bui Dao.
About This Series
The LMRG Research Workshop is a venue for members of the Lise Meitner Research Group, "China in the Global System of Science," to share work in progress on an ongoing basis. It is an opportunity to raise questions, discuss methodological challenges, or get feedback on preliminary conclusions. We aim to create a supportive atmosphere that combines rigorous criticism with genuine curiosity.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Network Analysis
Contact and Registration
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Please email Kim Pham for further information.
Zoom Details
zoom.us/j/94003086594?pwd=MGtTMHI4bEx5SEM2WDFDNVlab0djUT09
Meeting ID: 940 0308 6594, Passcode: 569123.
About This Series
Brown Bag Lunch is a 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
- Discussion Group
Bodily Waste
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
This is a hybrid event. To register, please contact Maria Pirogovskaya.
About This Series
The group will scrutinize the categories of "waste" and "the body." We will examine the classificatory principles applied to define them in their temporal and geographical variations, and the meanings and potentials of waste in various sociocultural settings in order to allow for a better understanding of the ideologies and practices of dealing with animal and human bodies. We will explore this versatile topic through approaches from history of science and medicine, anthropology, environmental history and urban studies.
The general questions for discussion and investigation include (but are not limited to):
- What can be considered waste and what are the conditions and presuppositions for classifying it as such?
- How does bodily waste as well as regulations, practices, and values related to it enable better understanding of 'the human' and 'the animal'
- What opportunities does bodily waste open up for theorizing and thinking about knowledge production and society?
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Discussion Group
Bodily Waste
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
This is a hybrid event. To register, please contact Maria Pirogovskaya.
About This Series
The group will scrutinize the categories of 'waste' and 'the body.' We will examine the classificatory principles applied to define them in their temporal and geographical variations, and the meanings and potentials of waste in various sociocultural settings in order to allow for a better understanding of the ideologies and practices of dealing with animal and human bodies. We will explore this versatile topic through approaches from history of science and medicine, anthropology, environmental history and urban studies.
The general questions for discussion and investigation include (but are not limited to):
- What can be considered waste and what are the conditions and presuppositions for classifying it as such?
- How does bodily waste as well as regulations, practices, and values related to it enable better understanding of 'the human' and 'the animal'
- What opportunities does bodily waste open up for theorizing and thinking about knowledge production and society?
November 2021
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Reaping the Benefits of Water in the Early Ming: A Political Epistemology
Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Workshop
Introduction: Indigenous Knowledges and Colonial Sciences in South Asia
Organizer(s)- Glenn W. Most
- Maria Avxentevskaya
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Please let us know if you would like to participate in the workshop, present your work at the workshop, suggest other materials, or invite external experts. If you have any questions, please contact Prof. Most at gmost@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de and Maria Avxentevskaya at mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
The Network Approach to Psychopathology
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Demazeux
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The seminar series is open to all. To receive the zoom link, please email Birgitta von Mallinckrodt (officekeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This research seminar is hosted by the Bordeaux-Berlin Working Group on Translating Validity in Psychiatric Research and brings together historians, philosophers, psychiatrists and biomedical researchers.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Seminar
The Rising Tide: An Environmental History of Science
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
TBA
About This Series
Organized in cooperation with the research project “A Global History of Technology (GLOBAL-HoT)” at TU Darmstadt, this seminar's aim is to seed a discussion bringing together diverse points of view about the ways in which global histories of science, technology, and environments can be produced.
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Discussion Group
Bodily Waste
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
This is a hybrid event. To register, please contact Maria Pirogovskaya.
About This Series
The group will scrutinize the categories of "waste" and "the body." We will examine the classificatory principles applied to define them in their temporal and geographical variations, and the meanings and potentials of waste in various sociocultural settings in order to allow for a better understanding of the ideologies and practices of dealing with animal and human bodies. We will explore this versatile topic through approaches from history of science and medicine, anthropology, environmental history and urban studies.
The general questions for discussion and investigation include (but are not limited to):
- What can be considered waste and what are the conditions and presuppositions for classifying it as such?
- How does bodily waste as well as regulations, practices, and values related to it enable better understanding of 'the human' and 'the animal'
- What opportunities does bodily waste open up for theorizing and thinking about knowledge production and society?
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Talk
The Checkered Game of Mandarin Life: Revisiting Official Careers in the Digital Age
- Dept. III
- Elisabeth Kaske (U Leipzig)
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
Open to all at the Institute. The event will take place in hybrid format. Zoom link will be sent via MPIWG-Announce one week in advance. Limited spots available for in-person attendance on a “first come, first served” basis; please contact event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de to sign up.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
What is Data in the Humanities? What is Data Modelling? What are Data Structures?
Contact and Registration
All are welcome to attend, regardless of prior experience of the digital humanities. Please email Kim Pham for further information.
Zoom Details
zoom.us/j/94003086594?pwd=MGtTMHI4bEx5SEM2WDFDNVlab0djUT09
Meeting ID: 940 0308 6594, Passcode: 569123.
About This Series
Brown Bag Lunch is a 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!
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Indigenous Epistemology and “European” Science: The Entangled Histories and Afterlives of Two 16th-Century Mexican Zoological Projects
Contact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Roundtable
Ability and Authority Roundtable: Uighur Expertise on the Silk Road
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Johan Elverskog
- Márton Vér
- Birgit Angelika Schmidt
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
For further information, please contact Qiao Yang (qyang@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
About This Series
This is a hybrid event, participation via Zoom is possible.
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Reading Seminar
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Everyone is welcome to join. Registration is required for persons outside of the Institute. For registration and 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. In addition,
- we identify 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.
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Discussion Group
Bodily Waste
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
This is a hybrid event. To register, please contact Maria Pirogovskaya.
About This Series
The group will scrutinize the categories of 'waste' and 'the body.' We will examine the classificatory principles applied to define them in their temporal and geographical variations, and the meanings and potentials of waste in various sociocultural settings in order to allow for a better understanding of the ideologies and practices of dealing with animal and human bodies. We will explore this versatile topic through approaches from history of science and medicine, anthropology, environmental history and urban studies.
The general questions for discussion and investigation include (but are not limited to):
- What can be considered waste and what are the conditions and presuppositions for classifying it as such?
- How does bodily waste as well as regulations, practices, and values related to it enable better understanding of 'the human' and 'the animal'
- What opportunities does bodily waste open up for theorizing and thinking about knowledge production and society?
- Workshop
Diagram Diversity in the Light of Digital Humanities: Types and Ambiguous Cases
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The workshop is closed to the public, but members of the Institute who are interested in attending may send an email to Anna Jerratsch.
- 14:30 to 16:00
- Research Workshop
The Development of China’s English-Language Scientific Journals
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
For further information about the LMRG Research Workshop series, specific session or registration (a limited number of places are available), please contact Dieu Linh Bui Dao.
About This Series
The LMRG Research Workshop is a venue for members of the Lise Meitner Research Group, "China in the Global System of Science," to share work in progress on an ongoing basis. It is an opportunity to raise questions, discuss methodological challenges, or get feedback on preliminary conclusions. We aim to create a supportive atmosphere that combines rigorous criticism with genuine curiosity.