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
- 08:30 to 17:30
- Workshop
Premodern Knowledge Systems from Primary Sources
- Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Multiple Lives of Quantification in the Modern World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215/Online- 10:00 to 15:00
- Workshop
Master Class: Research Communication for the Humanities
Organizer(s)- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Stockouts, Replenishment, and the Infrastructuring of Donor Recruitment: An Analysis of Blood Supply Chain Management in Northern Ghana
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 09:30 to 14:00
- Workshop
Workshop: Research Communication for the Humanities
- Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)- 15:00 to 16:00
- Roundtable
Roundtable: Research Communication for the Humanities
- Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)
- Several Speakers
Organizer(s)- 10:00 to 11:30
- Colloquium
The Anatomy of Time: Integrating Medical Calendrics and Dolpopa’s Ontology in the Kālacakra System
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 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- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Academia, Redacted: Working with Fraught Archives and Difficult Materials (Workshop)
October 2026
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Sensing into Rewilding: An Embodied History
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Effect of Science Grants on the Research Direction of Chinese Economists
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
Room219/Online- 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
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Five Paths of the Svarodaya
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room & Online- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
The Ethical Tension of the Oral Historian-Researcher (Workshop)
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Panel Discussion
Which Global China: Current Debates, Open Frontiers
- Lise Meitner Research Group (China)
- Several Speakers
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
How Do We Sustain Collaborative Research under Conditions of Postdoctoral Precarity? (Workshop)
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
When Theriacs Became Alchemical Elixirs: The Reception of Complex Eurasian Compounds Within the Tibetan Medical System
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom V005/Seminar Room & Online
November 2026
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Canceling Memory, Changing the Narrative? How to Keep Your (Political, Feminist…) Narratives Straight in Times of Far-Right and Neo-Libertarian Politics (Workshop)