Past Events by Year
September 2025
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
Games across Asia: The Primary Sources of Play
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, Villa, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Reframing the Needham Question
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 08:00 to 20:00
- Workshop
Diagrammatic Knowledge: Past Forms, Future Tools
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, Villa, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room
August 2025
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Indigenization and Preferential Treatments in Chinese Academia
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online
July 2025
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Framing AI Risks: The Co-Production of Knowledge, Norms and Politics in China, the EU, and the US
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 10:00 to 11:30
- Lecture
The Anatomy of Chinese Innovation: Insights on Patent Quality and Ownership
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online
June 2025
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Amazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Forms of Labour (chapter from the monograph "Tempered by Time: Ceramics and the Fabric of Time in Medieval South India")
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- Workshop
Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III: Toward a Radical Earth System Science
- Dept. KSCLDept. Renn
- Several Speakers
- Workshop
Unsettling Exposure: International Workshop
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Editing in Public: The Changing Landscape of Journal Editorship in the History of Science and Technology
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:30 to 16:00
- Colloquium
From National Knowledge Systems to Global Knowledge Value Chains? How Metrics, Markets, and Geopolitics Shape Social Sciences in Germany, Canada, and China
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 12:00 to 13:00
- Brown Bag Meeting
Small-Scale Online Radio Stations (canceled)
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Colloquium
Soul and Body of Shengguantu: The Stable Terminology Needled the Way through Gameboards
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
Internal–External Dynamics in Late Ming External Medicine
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
CANCELED: An Italian-Chinese Joint Venture in Cosmic Ray Astronomy
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and Archival Practices as Knowledge Sharing, Centralization of Power and Appropriation of Cultural Heritage
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, Villa, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room- 09:00 to 17:15
- Workshop
Training Week: A Global History of Astronomy on Primary Sources: New Approaches, New Digital Tools
Organizer(s)