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.

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?  

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. 

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!

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?  

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?  

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.

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.

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?  

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!

This is a hybrid event, participation via Zoom is possible.

"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

1. 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,
2. 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.

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?  

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.