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
- 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- 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- 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)- 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
February 2027
- 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
- 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