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.
February 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Poetic Sciences around 1800: Challenge and Inspiration for Today
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Kocku von Stuckrad
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
March 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Science and Supersession
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Elly Truitt
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
May 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Title TBC
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Jennifer Rampling
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
June 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Sanskrit into Arabic: On the Reception of Ayurvedic Medicine in Early Abbasid Society
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Oliver Kahl
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Sources of the Critical Edition of Ibn al-Jazzār’s Medical Handbook
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
"Science, Art, Both, or Neither? The Geopolitics of Disciplinary Canons"
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Surekha Davis
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
July 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Title TBC
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Michael Stanley-Baker
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Liber Nemroth
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Isabelle Draelants
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
The sessions will take place monthly on Fridays at 16:00–17:30 in an online or hybrid format. For more details, please contact us at science_conversation@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
The monthly seminar "Early Science in Conversation" invites experts from different fields and with varied perspectives to examine the ways in which science defines itself and what the history of science is as a discipline. We will especially encourage collective reasoning about conceptions of science and the methodologies with which we inquire about our sources. Among other things, we will reflect on what have been regarded as premodern scientific and proto-scientific practices, their methods, and their techniques. This interdisciplinary encounter seeks to deepen the history of science’s awareness of its own agenda and to open up new pathways. The conversational format, along with lectures and discussions of work in progress, aims to build fruitful connections across the intellectual spectrum of the MPIWG.