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.
December 2026
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
Time and Place in Premodern Arabic Technical Recipes
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
“The Collection of Writings on Prognostication” by Lamyn Gegeen versus the Tibetan Treatise Vaiḍūrya dkar po by Sangs rgyas rgya mtsho: Spreading Buddhist Astrology from Tibet to Mongolia in the Seventeenth Century
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room & Online- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Multiple Lives of Quantification in the Modern World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215/Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Jamaican Chinamaxxing: Caribbean Yellow Peril, the Plantation, and Chinese Debt as Possibility
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Creating a Shared Narrative: Community-Based Cinema (Workshop)
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Local Foundations of China's Global Science Rise: Sub-National Research Infrastructure Building and Governance
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online
January 2027
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
China’s Rise in Global Environmental Governance
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The German Academic Paradox: Why One of the World's Best Science Systems Is Falling Behind
Organizer(s)- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Reckoning with Time in Precolonial India
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Mapping the Cosmos, Locating the World: Visual Representations of Space in Tibetan Cosmographical and Cartographical Traditions
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Earth as Archive: Tracing Colonial Violence Through Landscape and Image
- Agata Nguyen Chuong
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room
February 2027
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Choosing What Remains: Silk, Material Knowledge, and the Making of Chinese Archaeology
- Dept. AAK
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
When Affliction Becomes Disease: Gu 蠱, Healing, and the Boundaries of Medicine in China
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 16:00 to 17:30
- Panel Discussion
Whose Global China: Cultures, Chineseness, and Chinamaxxing
- 09:00 to 18:30
- Colloquium
Board Game Studies Colloquium
Organizer(s)- Jacob Schmidt-Madsen
- Raghu Dharmendra
- Gyaneshwar Singh
- Tiago Hirth
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
On Hauntings, Infrastructures, and the Decolonization of Museums
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
It's What You Span, Not How Many: The Distinct Value of Cross-Sector Boundary-Spanners in Knowledge Production
- Lise Meitner Research Group (China)
- SICHAO TONG
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online
March 2027
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Uncovering Buried Pasts in Palestine: The Case of Ludd and Jaffa
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room
June 2027
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Made from Mud: The Geology of Race in Khedival Egypt
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- Summer School
Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future"
- Dept. Daston
- Several Speakers
AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany