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 2023
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Guardians of Science: Validation and Institutionalization of Parallel Psychology Fields in Contemporary Iran
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 17:30 to 19:00
- Lecture
The History of Science and Religion: Challenges and Opportunities
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 10:00 to 17:30
- Workshop
Fibers of Existence—Disordering Animals
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 10:00 to 19:00
- Scholars’ Forum
16th Forum: Literature and Science History
June 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Science, Art, Both, or Neither? Maps, Sea Monsters, and the Geopolitics of Disciplinary Canons
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Surekha Davies
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00 to 18:00
- Reading Group
"Household Encyclopedia" Primary Source Reading Group
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Max Planck Society in China: From Cold War Diplomacy to Globalized Scientific Cooperation (1974–2014)
- Lise Meitner Research Group
- Several Speakers
- Carola Sachse
- Dieu Linh Bui Dao
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online- 10:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Impact of Agricultural Practices on Pollinators, Pollination, and Food Production in Cameroon
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- Workshop
A Little Bit Different from Oral History? The Historiographic Realm of Research Interviews in History of Science and Medicine
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Several Speakers
- Jenny Bangham (Queen Mary University of London)
- Soraya de Chadarevian (University of California, LA)
- Alfred Freeborn
- Lara Keuck
- Jesse Olszynko-Gryn (University of Strathclyde & Institute of Advanced Studies Lyon)
- Edna Suárez-Diáz (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México)
- Dora Vargha (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
- Hanna Lucia Worliczek
Organizer(s)- 14:00 to 15:30
- Talk
The Mystery of the Seventeenth-Century Telescope: A Whodunit
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
The Formalization of Historical Reasoning
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 15:00 to 17:00
- Seminar
Plantationocene
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 11:00 to 12:30
- Book Presentation
Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Numeracy and Administration in the Ancient Greek and Roman World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 11:00 to 12:30
- Lecture
Syringe Tides: Throwaway Culture and the Making of Medical Waste
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Sources of the Critical Edition of Ibn al-Jazzār’s Medical Handbook
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
Beyond Validity: Predictivity! The DSM-5 Substance-Related and Addictive Disorders Revision and the Emergence of Craving
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 15:30
- Roundtable
Roundtable: The Securitization, Moralization, and Idealization of Academic Cooperation with the PRC
- Lise Meitner Research Group
- Several Speakers
- Zuoyue Wang
- Marcus Conlé
- Katrin Kinzelbach
- Tommy Shih
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Forensic Diplomacy and International Technical Cooperation: The Case of Mexico’s Extraordinary Mechanism for Forensic Identification
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online