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.
April 2021
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Practicing Astral Sciences, Practicing Power
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 11:00 to 13:30
- Reading Group
Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialisms
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Baldeep Kaur Grewal
- Marianna Szczygielska
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The group is open to all. If you are an external guest, please register by sending an email to Marianna Szczygielska at szczygielska@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
About This Series
“Troubling Epistemics and Postcolonialism” is a monthly reading seminar interrogating "postcolonial" as an analytic concept in the history of science. The goal is to understand the ethics and mechanisms of our own epistemic practices as they relate to politics and power. We aim to examine the ways that epistemology is both historically contingent and actively produced within the history of science with the goal of troubling our disciplinary positions. For each meeting we list and circulate
- a short ‘provocative text’ to carry the empirical element and to provoke us to go wider in attempting to attend to something that troubles. Everyone is expected to read that text
- two or three "theoretical" or descriptive papers that we feel might be useful in "attending to the trouble." These are optional readings. The idea is that everyone who attends the discussion will have read at least the short provocation paper and bring some "troubles" to the meeting
- Workshop
Visual Materials in Local Gazetteers
- Dept. III
- 17:00–19:00
Contact and Registration
Please contact Shih-Pei Chen for any additional information. If you would like to participate, please send an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Only limited spaces available.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Discussion Group
Clone of Measuring the Earth Discussion Group
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
In case you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session or registration, please feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Discussion Group
Measuring the Earth Discussion Group
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
In case you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session or registration, please feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Undoing Extinction: the Role of Zoos in Breeding Back the Tarpan Wild Horse, 1922–1965
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
May 2021
- 16:00 to 18:30
- Workshop
What Does South-to-South Mean for Cold War Science and Technology in Asia
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Please register following this link. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting. Please contact event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de for technical help if needed.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
A Fantasy of Control: Sound as a Technology in Wang Mang’s Declaration of Power
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Seminar
Global Matters: Intersections between Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
- Jonas van der Straeten
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
TBA
About This Series
Organized in cooperation with the research project “A Global History of Technology (GLOBAL-HoT)” at TU Darmstadt, this seminar's aim is to seed a discussion bringing together diverse points of view about the ways in which global histories of science, technology, and environments can be produced.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Alchemies of Soil Fertility: Vegetable Philosophy and Agricultural Improvement in Seventeenth-Century England
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Discussion Group
Measuring the Earth Discussion Group
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
In case you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session or registration, please feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
June 2021
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Productive Infertility and the Freemartin Gomer
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Tamar Novick
- Lucy Beech
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Seminar
Global Matters: Intersections between Histories of Science, Technology, and Environment
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Tamar Novick
- Alejandra Osorio
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
TBA
About This Series
Organized in cooperation with the research project “A Global History of Technology (GLOBAL-HoT)” at TU Darmstadt, this seminar's aim is to seed a discussion bringing together diverse points of view about the ways in which global histories of science, technology, and environments can be produced.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Hubert Goodale’s Feminized Cockerels: Industrial Poultry Breeding, Sex Control, and the Early History of Endocrinology
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
- 14:00 to 15:00
- Discussion Group
Measuring the Earth Discussion Group
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
In case you have questions about the discussion group, a specific session or registration, please feel free to contact Wilko Hardenberg.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Visualization of Astronomical Knowledge in Hellenistic Times: Aratus, Urania, and the Celestial Globe
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
Attendance is mandatory for Department III members. We additionally have room for ten guests and welcome those who wish to join us from other Departments and Research Groups. Please register in advance by emailing EVENT_DEPT3@MPIWG-BERLIN.MPG.DE with subject heading "RSVP Dept III Colloquium" and the date of the colloquium you wish to attend.
July 2021
- Conference
Towards a Global History of Soil: Sciences, Practices, Materialities and Mobilities, 1100-1700
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform
September 2021
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Critical Heritage Practice: Preferred Futures, Uncertain Presents and Speculative Pasts
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Space is limited and prior registration is required. Please email event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de to register.
- 09:00 to 13:00
- Workshop
Decolonizing One Discipline at a Time, Starting with Heritage Conservation
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Space is limited and prior registration is required. Please email event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de to register.
- 09:00 to 13:00
- Workshop
Role of Creative Practice in Heritage Process: Speculative Pasts from Certain Futures. Past, Present and Future, Which Comes First?
Organizer(s)Contact and Registration
Space is limited and prior registration is required. Please email event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de to register.