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March 2023
- 14:00 to 18:45
- Workshop
Coordination and Validity in Measurement Across Science and Medicine: Historical and Epistemological Perspectives
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Please register by contacting Michele Luchetti mluchetti@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Talk
Commoning Biomedicine—Conversations: NHS Voices of Covid-19
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
This event is open to all. To register, RSVP to Alfred Freeborn for the Zoom link: afreeborn@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Seminar
Universal Aspects of Scientific Practice: Commitment, Methodology, and Technique
Organizer(s)MPRG Final Theory Program
AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomContact and Registration
Link to the Zoom-Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/94690790127 Meeting-ID: 946 9079 0127 no registration required. For more information contact Kseniia Mohelsky officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.deAbout This Series
The seminar of the Research Group “Historical Epistemology of the Final Theory Program” runs once a month, usually on a Monday at 14:30 in the seminar room of the Villa (Harnackstraße 5). The talks deal primarily with the history, philosophy, and foundations of modern (post-WWII) physics or with wider epistemological questions related to the work of the group. There are no pre-circulated papers.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Knowledge, Values, and Politics in the Making of Artificial Intelligence Governance Policy in China, Germany, and the US
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/OnlineContact and Registration
For further information about the LMRG Colloquium series, specific sessions, or registration (a limited number of places are available), please contact Dieu Linh Bui Dao.
About This Series
The LMRG Colloquium is a venue for members and guests 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.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Military-Civil Fusion and China’s AI Research Strategies
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Please register at the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/95148903040?pwd=UmNZeUJWMzYxSUw0ZkJMckJFK3V1dz09This event is part of the LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series "China—The New Science Superpower?" For further information about the series, specific sessions, or questions concerning registration, please contact office-ahlers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
China’s push to become a leading science power is unprecedented in its speed, scope and, arguably, success. Reactions to China’s rise in global science are dichotomous: some anticipate that science made in China may come to dominate global academia while others deem it impossible to achieve scientific leadership under an authoritarian regime. A focus on rankings and statistics alone is apparently not enough to grasp the origins, characteristics, and the possible futures of China as a science superpower.
This monthly lecture series will bring together fresh empirical insights and intriguing theoretical reflections about the development of the science system in the People’s Republic of China and its global integration. Representing a variety of social science perspectives, our guest speakers will explore the evolution of Chinese science policy, interactions of societal norms and values and academia in the PRC, factors that enable or constrain scientific innovation, the global reception of scientific output and investment from China, the securitization of international collaboration, and much more.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Debating “Scientific Warfare” in Republican China
- Nicolas Schillinger (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & OnlineContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium series SCIENCE DIPLOMACY AND SCIENCE IN TIMES OF WAR will take place in person at the MPIWG and online, and is open to all. Academics, students, and members of the public are all welcome to attend, listen, and participate in discussion.
For online participation, please register at this email address: MPIWG_IC@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE and we will send you the updated zoom link for the colloquium.
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Colloquium
Hierarchies. The Max Planck Society in Gender Trouble
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219Contact and Registration
If you would like to attend the lectures in person or receive the zoom link, please register at: dept1-events@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
This event is part of the Colloquium Series Department I—2023.
- 16:30 to 18:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141Contact and Registration
All are welcome! To indicate your interest in joining this reading group and to receive a copy of the readings, please contact Isabela Dornelas at ideoliveiradornelas@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Welcome Meeting: Department III Colloquium
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & OnlineContact 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.
About This Series
The Department III Colloquia are regular meetings for the department members to discuss our work in progress, to comment, and to help each other in our writing process. The format is a discussion of a pre-circulated paper, led by an introductory comment by an external discussant.
- 10:00 to 12:00
- Seminar Series
ModelSEN unSeminar—Agent-based Modelling of Knowledge Spread
Organizer(s)- ModelSEN Team
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219Contact and Registration
Please register via this link: https://hu-berlin.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YuceGsqT4uHN1GP5eyn-5JB3j4PpGzhFS
About This Series
The modelSEN unSeminar series focuses on discussions around digital humanities modelling and methods. It is meant as a place of exchange and critical discussion to further the methods developed in the context of the modelSEN project of Department I. No prior reading is required. Each topic will be introduced by a speaker, but the main focus is on joint discussions and practical method development.
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Lecture
The Insides Outside, Or, Cultivating Disgust with Baby Food and Toilet Training
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265Contact and Registration
To register, and to obtain the readings and zoom link, please write to either Tamar Novick or Maria Pirogovskaya
About This Series
The spring “Waste & Body” invited talk series explores the crossroads of the history and anthropology of waste and the body. It is organised as part of “The Waste of the Body” project in Department III at the MPIWG, and brings scholars from different domains of expertise to present their work that challenges our understanding of waste and the limits of the more-than-human body.
February 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Poetic Sciences around 1800: Challenge and Inspiration for Today
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Kocku von Stuckrad
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
ModelSEN—Socio-Epistemic Networks: Modelling Historical Knowledge Processes
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Malte Vogl
- Bernardo Sousa Buarque
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219Contact and Registration
If you would like to attend the lectures in person or receive the zoom link, please register at: dept1-events@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
This event is part of the Colloquium Series Department I—2023.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
China’s Meteorological Services and Climate Resources in Motion: Thinking Through Weather Modification as Climate Engineering
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/ZoomContact and Registration
For further information about the LMRG Colloquium series, specific sessions, or registration (a limited number of places are available), please contact Dieu Linh Bui Dao.
About This Series
The LMRG Colloquium is a venue for members and guests 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
IMPRS Digital Humanities Workshop
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference RoomContact and Registration
As places are limited, we kindly ask you to register no later than January 31, 2023 by writing to imprs-office@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de (first com, first serve)
- 17:00 to 20:00
Fundamental Research and Shaping the Future: "The Climate Crisis as a Societal Challenge—Why Is Knowledge Not Translated into Action?"
AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Artifacts, Actions, Knowledge and Irregular Warfare in Latin America
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & OnlineContact and Registration
The Institute's Colloquium series Science Diplomacy and Science in Times of War will take place in person at the MPIWG and online, and is open to all. Academics, students, and members of the public are all welcome to attend, listen, and participate in discussion.
For online participation, please register at this email address: mpiwg_ic@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de and we will send you the updated zoom link for the colloquium.
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Seminar
The Validity of Machine Learning Models for the Measurement of Personality Traits
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 talk will take place on zoom, please briefly register with Birgitta v. Mallinckrodt (officekeuck@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) to receive the link.
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
China’s Innovation System: Driving or Translating Global Technological Trends?
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Please register at the following link:
https://zoom.us/j/95070450671?pwd=ME03aXhkclBuY1dsMms1a04vN1IzZz09This event is part of the LMRG & BCCN Lecture Series "China—The New Science Superpower?" For further information about the series, specific sessions, or questions concerning registration, please contact office-ahlers@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
China’s push to become a leading science power is unprecedented in its speed, scope and, arguably, success. Reactions to China’s rise in global science are dichotomous: some anticipate that science made in China may come to dominate global academia while others deem it impossible to achieve scientific leadership under an authoritarian regime. A focus on rankings and statistics alone is apparently not enough to grasp the origins, characteristics, and the possible futures of China as a science superpower.
This monthly lecture series will bring together fresh empirical insights and intriguing theoretical reflections about the development of the science system in the People’s Republic of China and its global integration. Representing a variety of social science perspectives, our guest speakers will explore the evolution of Chinese science policy, interactions of societal norms and values and academia in the PRC, factors that enable or constrain scientific innovation, the global reception of scientific output and investment from China, the securitization of international collaboration, and much more.
- 18:30 to 20:30
- Launch Event
Opening of the International Max Planck Research School “Knowledge and Its Resources: Historical Reciprocities”
- IMPRS
- Several Speakers
- Jürgen Renn
- Arno Villringer (Max Planck Society)
- Günter M. Ziegler (FU Berlin)
- Julia von Blumenthal (HU Berlin)
- Geraldine Rauch (TU Berlin)
- Dagmar Schäfer
- Viktoria Tkaczyk
- Simon Werrett (University College London)
- Christine von Oertzen
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany