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 2025
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Monastic Medicine and the Politics of Learning between China and Inner Asia: 1643–1949
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Seminar Series
Minescapes—Mining for Color: Socio-Natural Sites of Mineral Extraction and Color Making
Organizer(s)- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 15:30 to 17:30
- Talk
Turtle Masks and Their Afterlives
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 15:30 to 17:30
- Talk
Deep Time and Indigenous Epistemologies
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 13:00 to 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
"The Origin of All Seeds": Explaining the Causes of Diversity in Ilkhanid Agriculture
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Reading Seminar
Reading Session with Rubina Raja
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
June 2025
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and Archival Practices as Knowledge Sharing, Centralization of Power and Appropriation of Cultural Heritage
Organizer(s)- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Internal–External Dynamics in Late Ming External Medicine
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Forms of Labour (chapter from the monograph "Tempered by Time: Ceramics and the Fabric of Time in Medieval South India")
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online
July 2025
August 2025
September 2025
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265