
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
September 2023
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
The Making of Calculable Territory in Song Dynasty China, 1000–1250
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Albert the Great on the Habit of Physics
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
Visualizing the Body with Text and Image: The Early Modern Grammar of Anatomical Illustration
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
The Shape of Water: Tracing the Beginning of a Wave Theory of Sound
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Epistemic Commitments Have No “Off” Button
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Reflections of the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Dynamics of Academic Publishing in (and from) China: Will Chinese Publishers Be Able to Fulfill the Publishing Needs of Chinese Academic Researchers?
- Lise Meitner Research Group
- Matthias Wahls
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
The Sensible Body of the Spanish Medical Enlightenment: The Reception of John Brown's Elementa Medicinae and Its Discontents (1798–1805)
August 2023
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Lepers and Others: Imagining Diseases from Afar
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Kepler's Labors: Figurations of Scholarly Work c. 1600
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
The Horrific Body in Sophocles
July 2023
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Teaching Applied Sciences or Research Pure Sciences?
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online- 09:00 to 14:00
- Methods Intensive Masterclass
Concepts of Time in the Anthropology of Knowledge
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141- 09:00 to 14:00
- Methods Intensive Masterclass
Anthropology of Knowledge beyond the Human
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Pandemic Origins: The Anthropology of Knowledge in Time
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Overseas Development, Foreign Areas, and Chinese "World-Writing"
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Liber Nemroth
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Isabelle Draelants
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 08:30 to 18:00
- Symposium
International Society for the History of the Map (ISHMap) Symposium VII
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany