The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) offers a diverse program of public events, including colloquia, seminars, and workshops. Our Institute’s Colloquium is open and free to attend. Our other events often require registration or invitation—please check each individual event for details.
June 2023
- 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
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Science, Art, Both, or Neither? 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
July 2023
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Early Christian Neoplatonist Contemplation
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Title TBC
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Michael Stanley-Baker
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Liber Nemroth
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Isabelle Draelants
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
August 2023
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
The Horrific Body in Sophocles
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Kepler's Labors: Figurations of Scholarly Work c. 1600
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Lepers and Others: Imagining Diseases from Afar
September 2023
- 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)
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Reflections of the Reflex: Conceptual Changes in Twentieth-Century Brain Science
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
The Shape of Water: Tracing the Beginning of a Wave Theory of Sound
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Research Colloquium
Title: TBD