Past Events by Year
April 2026
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Colloquium
Persianate Pythagorean Computing, Early Modern AI and the Imperial Panopticon: From the Safavid World of Geomancy to the Mughal Principles of Guidance
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 13:00 to 15:00
- Colloquium
On the Criminalization of Femicide in a Comparative Legal Perspective
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
The Enchanted Basin in Mamluk Cairo: Medicine and Magic
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Governing the Paradox of Knowledge: How Research Security Shapes Open Science in EU–China Academic Cooperation
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Methods Intensive Workshop
Methods Intensive Master Class with Temi Odumosu: “Visual Research in Interdisciplinary Contexts“ + “Healing Mode – Ethics of Care in Front of and Behind Visual Documents”
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Methods Intensive Master Class with Temi Odumosu: Do Images Still Matter? Visual Anxieties in the Time of AI
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 16:00
- Colloquium
POSTPONED: Forced Examinations, Protection of Life, and Medical Professional Ethics: Reproductive Regimes and Abortion Discourses as a History of Violence in the 1980s and 1990s
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online
March 2026
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
The Sciences in the Mamluk Sultanate
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Integrating Counties into the Regional Innovation System in the Chengdu-Chongqing Twin-City Region
- Lise Meitner Research Group (China)
- OUTI LUOVA
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 15:30 to 17:00
- Reading Group
Biocultural Worlding Reading Group
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 10:00 to 11:00
- Book Presentation
Book Presentation: "Foreign Astral Sciences in China: From the Six Dynasties to the Northern Song"
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Talk
Uyghurs in the Spotlight of Evolutionary and Forensic Genetics: The End of a Long-Standing German-Chinese Scientific Collaboration
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Surveilling the Surveyors
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Turning Tables: Tracking Movement of Desire in Early Modern South Asia
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room & Online- 11:00 to 12:30
- Science Silk Road Seminar Series
Commercial Aerospace in China - Domestic Situation, BRI Perspectives
- Lise Meitner Research Group (China)
- Lucie Sénéchal-Perrouault
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
From Nuisance to Cinderella: Cottonseed and the Many Afterlives of King Cotton
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 15:00 to 16:30
- Lecture
Ionians, Yavanas, and Kushans: Hellenistic Legacies of Astral Science in Asia
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Catastrophe and Deep Time
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
February 2026
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
Field Walls and Terraces in Mamluk Bilad al-Sham
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 to 17:30
- Performative Lecture
Seeing Through Greek Time: The Antikythera Mechanism in 3D
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room