March for Science, Washington 2017

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Events

2026

Creating a Shared Narrative: Community-Based Cinema (Workshop) MPIWG Room 215

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Platonic Landscapes: Atlantis in the German Scientific Imagination MPIWG Room 215

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The New Age of Philanthropic Science: Lessons from the History of Science MPIWG Room 215

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Canceling Memory, Changing the Narrative? How to Keep Your (Political, Feminist…) Narratives Straight in Times of Far-Right and Neo-Libertarian Politics (Workshop) MPIWG Room 215

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How Do We Sustain Collaborative Research under Conditions of Postdoctoral Precarity? (Workshop) MPIWG Room 215

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The Ethical Tension of the Oral Historian-Researcher (Workshop) MPIWG Room 215

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Sensing into Rewilding: An Embodied History MPIWG Room 215

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Academia, Redacted: Working with Fraught Archives and Difficult Materials (Workshop) MPIWG Room 215

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Reading Group: Multiple Lives of Quantification in the Modern World MPIWG Room 215/Online

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Layers of Kin MPIWG Main Conference Room

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The Blindspot Machine Laboratory for Multimodal History, Room 007

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17. Studientag: Literatur und Wissenschaftsgeschichte Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Sonic Knowledge: Listening against the Grain to Gandhi in Bombay, 1931 MPIWG Room 215

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Tectonic Plates: Vorspeise (Public Reading) MPIWG Main Conference Room

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Movements and Categorizations: About Animals, Concepts and Belonging MPIWG Room 219

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Tectonic Plates: Vorspeise Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

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Lakota Star Knowledge - Film Screening & Discussion Spore Initiative

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In and Out of Place MPIWG Room 215

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Biocultural Worlding Reading Group MPIWG Room 265

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Surveilling the Surveyors MPIWG Room 215

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Biomedical Visions: The Art of Science and the Science of Art

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From Nuisance to Cinderella: Cottonseed and the Many Afterlives of King Cotton MPIWG Room 215

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Biocultural Worlding Reading Group MPIWG Room 265

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Exploding into the Future: Environmental Damage and the Gendered Distribution of Repair at SpaceX’s Boca Chica Site MPIWG Room 215

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Biocultural Worlding Reading Group MPIWG Room 265

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Children and Science: Methods, Materiality, Agency MPIWG Room 215

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Reading and Discussion Session: Knowledge Systems and Collective Life MPIWG Room 215

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2025

Desert Black: Arid Lands and Imperial Democracy in the Transatlantic World MPIWG Room 215

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Multimodal Appreciation MPIWG Room 215

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Enclosing the Cyclone: Commodifying Weather Risk in the Indian Ocean World MPIWG Room 215

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Archival Dispossessions: Record Keeping in US Empire MPIWG Room 215

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The World at Their Fingertips: German Teachers and International Encounters in the GDR MPIWG Room 215

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Film Screening: The Land Beneath Our Feet Spore Initiative

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Living Knowledge: Ethics, Practice, and Community in Multimodal History Harnack Haus

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Panel Discussion: Making Historical Knowledge that Matters MPIWG Main Conference Room

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Amazongraphy: An Ecopolitics of Environmental Crises MPIWG Room 215

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Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling III: Toward a Radical Earth System Science

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Unsettling Exposure: International Workshop Harnack Haus

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Small-Scale Online Radio Stations (canceled) MPIWG Room 215

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Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals MPIWG Room 215

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Film as Cure MPIWG Room 215

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An Entangled History of Creative Problem Solving in the GDR MPIWG Room 215

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The Anxiety of Academic Freedom in Illiberal Times MPIWG Room 265

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Oral-History.Digital: Risky Hormones Boltzmannstr. 16

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On Her Way to Cook: Women, Technology, and Cooking Knowledge in Peruvian History MPIWG Room 265

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Discussion: Collective Life / Collectivities beyond Life MPIWG Room 265

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Conserving Community-based Palestinian Environmental Knowledge MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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The Pharmacologist’s Dilemma: Thalidomide, Abortion, and Medical Ethics in Women’s Healthcare IMPRS-KIR B16

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Charting the Shattered Sea: Geopolitical Conflicts and East Asian Oceanography in the 20th Century MPIWG Room 265

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The March: A Prayer from Mining Mountains Seminar Room, Boltzmannstr. 16

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2024

Between Wonder and Evidence: The International Festival of Scientific and Educational Film Seminar Room, Boltzmannstr. 16

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Unknowing Environmental Crisis: Authors' Workshop Harnack-Haus Humboldt Room

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Käthe Seidel and the Social Life of Sediments MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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Berlin Science Week: Patterns of Pathology and Biomedical Visions

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At Arm’s Lengths: Octopus Consciousness as a Scientific and Legal Artifact MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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Predicting 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

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Dept. II Opening Symposium & Oral History Practitioners’ Meeting MPIWG Main Conference Room

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Unnecessary Sleep: Opium, the Trial of Ann, and the Therapeutic Dilemma of Slavery

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Situating the Symbiotic Planet: A Workshop on Lynn Margulis in Science, Culture, and Society Harnack-Haus Lise-Meitner-Saal

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Animated Archive Seminar Room, Boltzmannstr. 16

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Plants from Pyramids: Biogeography, Climate, and How to Write Cultural History MPIWG Room 265

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Knowing Trees: Co-producing Epistemologies of the Environment and Health Harnack Haus

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Mined Soil by Filipa César: Film Screening and Discussion MPIWG Main Conference Room

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The Era of the Witness Seminar Room, Boltzmannstr. 16

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Disposable Modernity: Masks and the Rise of the Throwaway Medical Culture MPIWG Room 265

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Abundance and Loss: Author Workshop MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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"We still don't know"—Brown Bag Lunch with Robert A. Aronowitz MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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Noise as (Environmental) Knowledge Boltzmannstr. 16

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Voices of the Nakba Seminar Room, Boltzmannstr. 16

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European Noise: The Cosmo-Politics of Noise Abatement in European Cities Boltzmannstr. 16

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"Echoes of the Brother Countries" (HKW) Haus der Kulturen der Welt

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Environments of Reproduction Harnack-Haus Humboldt Room

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Oral Histories of Knowledge Harnack-Haus Humboldt Room

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For the Love of the River: Nuclear Ecologies and the Sensory Politics of Green Energy MPIWG Room 215

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Planet as Mis-en-Scene: Nonfiction Cinema and the Ecological Sublime MPIWG Room 215

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In Search of 'A New Planetary Culture': Lynn Margulis and the Lindisfarne Association, 1974-1998 MPIWG Room 215

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All That Breathes: Film Screening and Discussion with the Filmmaker MPIWG Main Conference Room

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(Cows, Toads, and Other) Technologies of Reproduction: A Double Book Launch & Film Screening (Canceled) MPIWG Main Conference Room

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'The Most Noble of All Commodities': The Global Gem Trade and the Seventeenth-Century Earth Sciences MPIWG Room 215

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Energy is an Empty Signifier MPIWG Room 215

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2023

Zairian Chimpanzees for U.S. Labs: Development, Conservation, and the Politics of Resource Access MPIWG Room 215

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Rendered: An Elementary Mobilization of Computer Graphic MPIWG Room 215

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One Myrtle Proves Nothing: On Experimental Designs and the Study of Biological Systems MPIWG Room 215

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