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 2025
- 18:00 to 21:00
- External/Cooperation Event
House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Vera V. Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
- Goce Naumov
- Cinzia Pappi
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
A New Era in Technological Collaboration: Israel and the Abraham Accords States (2020-2023 and after)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
RTAWD Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
May 2025
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Colloquium
Shogi in the Edo-Period (1600–1867): Glimpses of Real Life from the Ohashi Diaries
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
An Entangled History of Creative Problem Solving in the GDR
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- Seminar Series
Minescapes—Mining for Color: Socio-Natural Sites of Mineral Extraction and Color Making
Organizer(s)- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
RTAWD Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Unfamiliar Uncertainties: Grappling with Climate Change Adaptation in China
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom
June 2025
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
An Italian-Chinese Joint Venture in Cosmic Ray Astronomy
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 10:00 to 11:00
- Colloquium
Soul and Body of Shengguantu: The Stable Terminology Needled the Way through Gameboards
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
Theorizing Evolution of Social Sciences in China, Canada, and Germany: A Comparative Study
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Editing in Public: The Changing Landscape for Journals in the History of Science
- Several Speakers
- Amy Slaton
- Tiago Saraiva
- Kärin Nickelsen
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Amazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215
July 2025
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Taming the Artificial, Ordering the Social: Divergence and Convergence in Emerging AI Governance Regimes in China, Germany/the EU and the US
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom