Past Events by Year
October 2021
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Congling, an Overlooked "Cosmic Mount" in East Asian Cartography
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.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
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!
- 09:30 to 11:30
- Seminar
Botanical Knowledge of Food Plants in Middle and Late Imperial China
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Li Guoqiang (Paris Nanterre)
- Kateřina Šamajová (Palacky University Olomouc)
- Chen (Sarah) Huang
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Open to the public online. To register, contact Chun Xu (cxu@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Seminar
Technology, Temporality, and the Study of Central Asia
- Dept. III
- Jonas van der Straeten
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.
- 14:30 to 16:00
- Research Workshop
China’s Regime of Data
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.
- 09:00 to 11:00
- Discussion Group
Reading Animal Materials
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
To participate, please contact Lisa Onaga (lonaga@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
Inauguration of the Max Planck Partner Group "The Water City"
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Jürgen Renn
- Klaus Vogel
- Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Workshop
Challenges to Translating Validity in Psychiatric Research
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Participation via Zoom is possible. Please contact Birgitta Mallinckrodt (officekeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) for further information.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Yi-Xing’s Large-Scale Gnomonic Survey and Mapping of Terrestrial Realm
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.
September 2021
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Discussion Group
Measuring the Earth Discussion Group
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
In case you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session or registration, please feel free to contact WILKO HARDENBERG.
About This Series
Born originally out of the activities of the Measuring the Earth digitalization project within the Art of Judgement research cluster, the discussion group expands the former's focus on the history of geodesy to explore the broader historiographical debate on instances of measurement and surveying in the geosciences. Ideas for readings for our future meetings are always welcome.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
A Migratory Island: Troubled Waters, Flowing Grounds, and the Layers of Disaster
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.
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
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.
- Workshop
POSTPONED: Understanding Anthropogenic Change
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
To register, please contact Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).
- 09:30 to 17:00
- Workshop
Breaking Models: Data Governance and New Metrics of Knowledge in the Time of the Pandemic
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Kishor Bhat and Manish Gautam
- Paolo Caffoni
- Ariana Dongus
- Sascha Freyberg
- Matteo Pasquinelli
- Max Grünberg
- Tobias Haberkorn
- Arif Kornweitz
- Yishu Mao
- Tania Rispoli
- Oliver Schlaudt
Organizer(s)- Sascha Freyberg
- Matteo Pasquinelli
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
Registration to the workshop is free. To register or propose a paper write to workshop@allmodels.ai.
About This Series
A Collobaration of KIM Research Group (HfG Karlsruhe) and MPIWG (Berlin). Funded by the Volkswagen Foundation program “Corona Crisis and Beyond.”
Hybrid event: online and offline at Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
Neurasthenia, the International Classification of Diseases, and Psychiatry in the Socialist World
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Sarah Marks
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Demazeux
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The seminar series is open to all. Please email Klara Schwalbe to register for this seminar, specifying if you would like to attend in person or via Zoom at krschwalbe@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.
This seminar will take place in a hybrid format in the MPIWG MAIN Conference Room and online via Zoom. The number of physical attendants for this seminar is limited to 10 and these places are primarily for internal members at the Institute, so please register early and we apologise to those we cannot accommodate. External guests must have proof of either vaccination, recovery from Covid or a negative test result to attend in person.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Seminar
Bovine Regimes: How Animals Became Technologies
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.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Research Workshop
AI Ethics Made in China: Moral Order and Work Culture in the Tech Industry
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
For further information about the LMRG Research Workshop series and specific session, 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.
- Workshop
Anthropogenic Markers Workshop
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Bernadette Bensaude-Vincent
- Adam Bobbette
- Jeremy Bolen
- Soraya Boudia
- Kate Brown
- Nina Canell
- Julian Charrière
- Nigel Clark
- Angela Creager
- Matt Edgeworth
- Xandra van der Eijk
- Barbara Fiałkiewicz-Kozieł
- Desiree Foerster
- Kim Fortun
- Juan-Andres Leon Gomez
- Maël Goumri
- Irka Hajdas
- Nestor Herran
- Brian Kent Holmes
- Eva Horn
- Katrin Hornek
- Benjamin Johnson
- Luke Keogh
- John Krige
- Kira Lappé
- Reinhold Leinfelder
- Francine McCarthy
- Tania Navarro-Rodriguez
- Pietro Daniel Omodeo
- Jahnavi Phalkey
- Killian Quigley
- Jürgen Renn
- Maria Rentetzi
- Giulia Rispoli
- Xavier Roque
- Neil Rose
- Christoph Rosol
- Kyoko Sato
- Cristian Simonetti
- Karolina Anna Sobecka
- Benjamin Steininger
- Juliana Ivar do Sul
- Julia A. Thomas
- Liz Thomas
- Simon Turner
- Colin Waters
- Robin Watkins
- Andrea Westermann
- Adam Wickberg
- Mark Williams
- Matthew C. Wilson
- Jan Zalasiewicz
Organizer(s)- IV. Anthropocene Formations
- Anthropogenic Markers: Historical and Material Contexts of a Twentieth-Century …
AddressHaus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
For registration please contact Riddhima Puri (rpuri@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) and specify whether you wish to attend the event online or in person (the 3G rule applies for in-person attendance). Onsite attendance cannot be guaranteed at this point as it depends on final room capacity at the HKW (Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin). In-person attendees will be notified by Monday September 20.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Balancing the Soil: Soil Knowledge and Soil Improvement in Late Ming Farming Manuals
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.
- Authors' Workshop
Bovine Regimes: When Animals Became Technologies
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Open to Dept. III members. If you would like to join the various sessions please write to Tamar Novick in order to get access to the papers.