Past Events by Year
December 2025
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
Academic Cultivating of Rasulid Era (13th–14th Centuries)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 12:30 to 14:00
The Sex of the Planets: A Week’s Progress
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
WiWiKo-China: Informed Collaboration - China Expertise for German Academic Organizations
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Metals and Value in the Precolonial Americas
Organizer(s)- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Desert Black: Arid Lands and Imperial Democracy in the Transatlantic World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 18:00 to 19:30
- Colloquium
Celestial Observations by the Carolingians - Knowledge Transfer from Arabia on Planets, Eclipses, and the Zodiac
AddressInstitute for the Study of Knowledge in the Ancient World, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 010- 13:00 to 15:00
- Talk
At the Altar of the Metaphysics of Materials: From Porphyry to Obsidian in the New World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Colloquium
The Origin of the Game of Go
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
Archival Waste and the Molecular Politics of Feather Keratin
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Working Group
Multimodal Appreciation
- Dept. KSCL
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 11:30 to 12:50
- Talk
The Rise, Fall and Rise Again of the Wicked Problem. Plurality and the Production of Knowledge, 1966-Present
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
November 2025
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
Authorship and Authority in Premodern Arabic Craft Recipes
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00 to 19:30
- Colloquium
Royal Horoscopes in Persian
AddressInstitute for the Study of Knowledge in the Ancient World, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 010- 18:00 to 19:30
- Talk
Book Launch: "Knowing an Empire: Early Modern Chinese and Spanish Worlds in Dialogue"
- Dept. AAK
- Several Speakers
AddressRüdesheimer Str. 54–56, 14197 Berlin, Germany
Room201- 16:00 to 18:00
- Lecture
Fieldnotes from Battles over Indian History, Society, and Sciences
Organizer(s)AddressBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin, Germany
RoomLeibniz Saal- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
An Italian-Chinese Joint Venture in Cosmic Ray Astronomy
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 10:00 to 18:00
- Symposium
Making and Unmaking Value I
AddressHarvard University Department History of Art and Architecture, Sackler, Arthur M, 485 Broadway, 02138, United States
- 18:00 to 19:30
- Colloquium
27/28 nakṣatra-s in the Gārgīyajyotiṣa—astronomical time reckoning in early Indian astronomy
- Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)
- Bill Mak
AddressInstitute for the Study of Knowledge in the Ancient World, Freie Universität Berlin, Arnimallee 10, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 010- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Unsettling the Historiographic Operation
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Film and Discussion: "Handicap et stérilisations forcées: la fin d'un crime?"
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online