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 2026
- 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- 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
- 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
- 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
- 13:00 to 15:00
- Colloquium
On the Criminalization of Femicide in a Comparative Legal Perspective
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 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- 10:00 to 18:00
- Symposium
Making and Unmaking Value II
AddressHarvard University Department History of Art and Architecture, Sackler, Arthur M, 485 Broadway, 02138, United States
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Science Silk Road Seminar Series
The "New Cold War" and the Securitization of China's Earth Science Research in the Arctic
May 2026
- Colloquium
West Asian Sciences in Tang China: Eastward Knowledge Mobilities
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
In and Out of Place
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- Colloquium
Seasoning Time: Agricultural Manuals across Language Boundaries and Cultural Worlds
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Precognition, Time Travel, and the History of Religions: Some Impossible Thoughts
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Workshop
The Tectonic Plates: Vorspeisen
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Colloquium
An Artistic Impulse . . . in the Archive
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Movements and Categorizations: About Animals, Concepts and Belonging
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Alchemy in the Tamil Siddha Literature: Its Transdisciplinary and Esoteric Aspects
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Trouble: Kachin Amber, Chinese Palaeontology, and a Global Debate About the Ethics of Scientific Research
- Lise Meitner Research Group (China)
- ALESSANDRO RIPPA
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 14:00 to 16:00
- Colloquium
Talk: Local Solutions to Ending Early Marriage and Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in the Somali Diaspora Background
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online
June 2026
- Symposium
Crafted Forms, Skillful Doing
AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Sonic Knowledge: Listening against the Grain to Gandhi in Bombay, 1931
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215