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.
September 2026
- Symposium
10th IASSRT Symposium. Textiles as Knowledge Systems: Practice, Codification and Transfer
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge between Late Antiquity and Early Islam
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Vector Poetics: Race, Power, and Disease in Early Caribbean Mosquito-Bite Literature
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online
October 2026
- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
Research Directions in Premodern Agricultural and Food Knowledge
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
November 2026
- 18:00 to 21:00
Copy-Paste Nature, Promises and Limits of Biomimicry
- Dept. AAK
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)AddressJägerstraße 22-23, 10117 Berlin, Germany
RoomBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften- 15:00 to 16:00
- Reading Group
Water and a Mamluk Basin in Use
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
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
February 2027
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
What Remains, What Goes: Silk and the Material Temporalities of Chinese Archaeology
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online