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.
May 2022
- Working Group
Responsible Documentation and Conscious Outcomes: Explorations in the Ownership of Knowledge
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
This event is open to invited participants only.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Depicting Time: The Visualisation of the Planetary Deities and the Seven-Day Astrological Week in the Graeco-Roman World
June 2022
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
Orientation and Organization of the Zodiacal Image in the Roman Empire
- Dept. III
- Fabio Spadini (Freie Universität Berlin/ANHIMA Paris)
- Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa …
- Image Database: Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The meetings will take place on Zoom. The event is closed to the public, but MPIWG members are welcome and may register by emailing: brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
About This Series
The goal of the lecture series is to complement the image database that we have created over the last years by topic and region-specific lectures related to the history and culture of astral knowledge.
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Religious Contexts of Discourses on Nature: The Comet of 1577 in Early-Modern Germany
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Revulsion as Prevention: Emotional Science and the Mobilisation of Sensibility in Late 19th-century Russian Public Medicine
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
From Athens to Samarkand: Constellations and Celestial Globes from the Islamic World
- Dept. III
- Federica Gigante (University of Oxford)
- Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens in Eurasia and North Africa …
- Image Database: Visualization and Material Cultures of the Heavens
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting PlatformContact and Registration
The meetings will take place on Zoom. The event is closed to the public, but MPIWG members are welcome and may register by emailing: brentjes@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
About This Series
The goal of the lecture series is to complement the image database that we have created over the last years by topic and region-specific lectures related to the history and culture of astral knowledge.
July 2022
- Workshop
The Waste of the Body
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Contact and Registration
For further information about this event, please contact Tamar Novick (tnovick@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de).