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- 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
November 2023
- 10:00 to 16:00
- Conference
Tombs and Astral Knowledge from Egypt to China (1000 BCE–1000 CE)
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Bilal Annan
- Alisher Begmantov
- Rana Brentjes
- Massimiliano David
- Eurydice Georganteli
- Jinsong Guo
- Jeffrey Kotyk
- Chuanyi Lyu
- Consuelo Manetta
- Stamatina Mastorakou
- Nikolaos Pappas
- Fabio Spadini
- Sarah L. Symons
- Andreas Winkler
AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
October 2023
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Same-Same but Different? Features and Narratives of Research Collaboration between Scientists from Europe and the PRC
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 10:30 to 12:00
- Lecture
STM Publication and Open Science in China
- Lise Meitner Research Group
- Several Speakers
- Wei YANG (Zhejiang University)
- Yuzhuo CAI (Tampere University)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 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- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Internal Rotation/s. Sociomaterial practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim’s Experiments on Birth Mechanics
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 16:00 to 18:00
- Reading Group
"Household Encyclopedia" Primary Source Reading Group
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 13:00 to 14:30
- Workshop
The Making of a Cage Bird Class: African Grey Parrots in Early Modern Europe
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 09:30 to 17:00
- Workshop
The Scholarly Experience: Wisdom in the Premodern Syriac World
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Several Speakers
- Katja Krause
- Stefanie Rudolf
- Bernd Schipper
- Sergey Minov
- Nestor Kavvadas
- Markham Geller
- Saqib Hussain
- Julien Decharneux
- Bas ter Haar Romeny
- Matthias Perkams
- Jan van Ginkel
- Theresia Hainthaler
- Yury Arzhanov
- Siam Bhayro
- Hans Daiber
- Daniel King
- Hidemi Takahashi
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room
September 2023
- 09:00 to 17:30
- Symposium
Migration, Mobility, and Expertise
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- Authors' Workshop
Biomedical Visions: Aesthetics, Epistemology, and Medical Practice
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
One Myrtle Proves Nothing: On Experimental Designs and the Study of Biological Systems
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 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)