March for Science. Source: ©Becker1999/ CC-by-sa 2.0.
Events
Knowledge Systems and Collective Life
2026
17. Studientag: Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte
- Several Speakers
Earth System and World Order: On the Geopolitics of Carbon Management MPIWG Room 215
MoreSonic Knowledge: Listening against the Grain to Gandhi in Bombay, 1931 MPIWG Room 215
MoreMovements and Categorizations: About Animals, Concepts and Belonging MPIWG Room 219
MoreFrom Nuisance to Cinderella: Cottonseed and the Many Afterlives of King Cotton MPIWG Room 215
MoreExploding into the Future: Environmental Damage and the Gendered Distribution of Repair at SpaceX’s Boca Chica Site MPIWG Room 215
MoreChildren and Science: Methods, Materiality, Agency MPIWG Room 215
More2025
Desert Black: Arid Lands and Imperial Democracy in the Transatlantic World MPIWG Room 215
MoreEnclosing the Cyclone: Commodifying Weather Risk in the Indian Ocean World MPIWG Room 215
MoreThe World at Their Fingertips: German Teachers and International Encounters in the GDR MPIWG Room 215
MorePanel Discussion: Making Historical Knowledge that Matters MPIWG Main Conference Room
- Several Speakers
Living Knowledge: Ethics, Practice, and Community in Multimodal History Harnack Haus
MoreAmazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises MPIWG Room 215
MoreHistorical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III: Toward a Radical Earth System Science
- Several Speakers
Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals MPIWG Room 215
MoreAn Entangled History of Creative Problem Solving in the GDR MPIWG Room 215
MoreOn Her Way to Cook: Women, Technology, and Cooking Knowledge in Peruvian History MPIWG Room 265
- Alejandra Osorio Tarazona, HU Berlin
Discussion: Collective Life / Collectivities beyond Life MPIWG Room 265
MoreConserving Community-based Palestinian Environmental Knowledge MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room
MoreThe Pharmacologist’s Dilemma: Thalidomide, Abortion, and Medical Ethics in Women’s Healthcare IMPRS-KIR B16
MoreCharting the Shattered Sea: Geopolitical Conflicts and East Asian Oceanography in the 20th Century MPIWG Room 265
More2024
Between Wonder and Evidence: The International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film Seminar Room, Boltzmannstr. 16
MoreKäthe Seidel and the Social Life of Sediments MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room
MoreAt Arm’s Lengths: Octopus Consciousness as a Scientific and Legal Artifact MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room
MorePredicting Parasite Pathologies? Coordination, Validity, and Values in Decision-Making in Serological Screening for Toxoplasmosis During Pregnancy in the 1970s MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room
MoreDept. II Opening Symposium & Oral History Practitioners’ Meeting MPIWG Main Conference Room
MoreUnnecessary Sleep: Opium, the Trial of Ann, and the Therapeutic Dilemma of Slavery
MoreSituating the Symbiotic Planet: A Workshop on Lynn Margulis in Science, Culture, and Society Harnack-Haus Lise-Meitner-Saal
Plants from Pyramids: Biogeography, Climate, and How to Write Cultural History MPIWG Room 265
MoreKnowing Trees: Co-producing Epistemologies of the Environment and Health Harnack Haus
MoreDisposable Modernity: Masks and the Rise of the Throwaway Medical Culture MPIWG Room 265
MoreAbundance and Loss: Author Workshop MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room
More"We still don't know"—Brown Bag Lunch with Robert A. Aronowitz MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room
MoreEuropean Noise: The Cosmo-Politics of Noise Abatement in European Cities Boltzmannstr. 16
MoreEnvironments of Reproduction Harnack-Haus Humboldt Room
- Birgit Nemec (Charité)
- Anika König (Freie Uni)
For the Love of the River: Nuclear Ecologies and the Sensory Politics of Green Energy MPIWG Room 215
MorePlanet as Mis-en-Scene: Nonfiction Cinema and the Ecological Sublime MPIWG Room 215
MoreIn Search of 'A New Planetary Culture': Lynn Margulis and the Lindisfarne Association, 1974-1998 MPIWG Room 215
MoreAll That Breathes: Film Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker MPIWG Main Conference Room
More(Cows, Toads, and Other) Technologies of Reproduction: A Double Book Launch & Film Screening (Canceled) MPIWG Main Conference Room
- Several Speakers