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.
May 2024
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Contesting, Remaking, and Reimagining Absence among and with Digital Methods: A 3-Project Based Examination
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Ptolemaic Astronomy through Computer Vision: A Building Platform for Research on Astronomical Diagrams
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 16:00
- Discussion
Laboratory for Oral History and Experimental Media Series: Voices of the Nakba
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstr. 16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB16 Seminar Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Scientific "Autocracy" in Times of Climate Crisis?
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Noise as (Environmental) Knowledge
June 2024
- Workshop
Thinking from the Substrate
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Lecture
On Obstacle Courses and Other Racings (or an Outburst about Reusing 3D Models of Cultural Heritage Objects for Research and Conservation)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
Metaphysics beyond Ontology and Aesthetics
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online- 17:30 to 19:30
- Talk
Coping with Environmental Challenges in the Exploration, Development, and Production of African Mineral Resources
- Samuel O. Akande
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 12:00 to 13:30
"We still don't know"—Brown Bag Lunch with Robert A. Aronowitz
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Cosmos and the Body Politic in the Byzantine World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:30
- Lecture
Archaeology of the Astral: Mingling of Astrological and Cosmological Ideas in the Context of Sea Trade between Early Historic India and Roman Egypt (1st c. BCE–5th c. CE)
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Disposable Modernity: Masks and the Rise of the Throwaway Medical Culture
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstr. 16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB16 Seminar Room- 11:00 to 13:00
- Field Trip
Objects Revealed: TBC
Organizer(s)AddressJägerstraße 22-23, 10117 Berlin, Germany
RoomBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften- Workshop
Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia
Organizer(s)- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Disaster in the East Asian History of Science
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Chun Xu
- Kyonghee Lee
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Computer Vision for History
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 16:30
- Workshop
[RESCHEDULED] Workshop: "BIPoC, birthing bodies, fauxminism—und wie sage ich das auf Deutsch?"
- Several Speakers
- Friederike Landau-Donnelly
- Birgit Kolboske
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Xi Jinping’s Perspectives on Science and Technology
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom