Archive
- Institute's Colloquium 2022–23: Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War
- Institute's Colloquium 2021–22: Trusting Science
- Institute's Colloquium 2020–21: Crisis and Capacity
- Institute's Colloquium 2019–20: History of Science: Right Here, Right Now
- Institute's Colloquium 2017–18: Beyond the Horizon: the History of Science in …
- Calendar of History of Science Events in Berlin
- Internal Events Calendar for Current Scholars
Past Events by Year
July 2022
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
Constellations and Celestial Globes from the Islamic World: The Use of Virtual Reality Technology as a New Interpretative Tool
- Dept. III
- Federica Gigante (University of Oxford)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
The Laboratory of Animal Spirits. Animal Experimentation and Therapeutic Innovation in the Wake of the Psychopharmacological Revolution
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Demazeux
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 11:00 to 12:30
Caste, Religion, and the Laboratory Life
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 10:30 to 11:30
- Talk
Moonrise, Moonset, and Planting Times
- Workshop
The Waste of the Body
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
June 2022
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Revulsion as Prevention: Emotional Science and the Mobilisation of Sensibility in Late 19th-century Russian Public Medicine
- 15:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
Scientific Questions Then and Now: Matter
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Research Workshop
The Plague in Yunnan: Rats and Missionaries at the End of the World
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Religious Contexts of Discourses on Nature: The Comet of 1577 in Early-Modern Germany
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Grete Hermann's Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 12:00 to 13:30
Linked Data & Discovery Projects
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Scientific Experience and the Scientific Expert II: The “Layperson,” “Common Person,” “Public,” “Non-Elite,” “Non-Scientist”
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
Orientation and Organization of the Zodiacal Image in the Roman Empire
- Dept. III
- Fabio Spadini (Freie Universität Berlin/ANHIMA Paris)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
Crazy Standards: The WHO and the Rise of Descriptive Psychiatry
Organizer(s)- Lara Keuck
- Steeves Demazeux
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform
May 2022
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Scientific Experience and the Scientific Expert I: The Scientist
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Depicting Time: The Visualisation of the Planetary Deities and the Seven-Day Astrological Week in the Graeco-Roman World
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
Science in Practice: Astronomical Instruments in the Islamic World
- Dept. III
- Taha Arslan (Istanbul Medeniyet University)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- Workshop
Global Interference? Science and Foreign Policy Interactions in China
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Arthur E. Haas, Rolle und Scheitern in der modernen Physik
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Ignorance and Its Resources: China and Beyond
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Anna Lisa Ahlers
- Emily Mae Graf (FU Berlin)
- Chun Xu