• Research Reels: Jeffrey Kotyk with his recent publication "Zoroastrianism in the Chinese Imagination"

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    Jeffrey Kotyk: Zoroastrianism in the Chinese Imagination

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  • Research Reels: Daniela Trinks

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    Daniela Trinks: The Association between Go Experience and Sustained Attention in Young Adults

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  • Close-up of cracked and peeling paint layers in multiple colors on a surface. Source: Eduardo Goody,

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    Institute's Colloquium 2026–27

    Histories of Science That Lie Beneath

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  • Research Reels: Elizabeth Hughes with her edited volume "Biomedical Visions: Epistemology, Medicine and Art Practice"

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    Elizabeth Hughes: Biomedical Visions

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Founded in 1994, the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) in Berlin is one of the more than 80 research institutes of the Max Planck Society. Since its inception, the Institute has continually expanded the boundaries of the field of the history of science—critically interrogating basic concepts, bringing multiple disciplines into dialog, and experimenting with novel research methods.

 

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Zsuzsanna Ihar feature in Tagesspiegel's "Top 100 Berlin Researchers 2026"

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Berlin’s History of Knowledge course list (KVV) for winter semester 2026/2027 has been published online

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Institute welcomes Journalist in Residence Moira Donovan

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Events

Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan

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Mapping Saturn: The Visual Cultures of a Planet from Antiquity to the Early Modern World

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

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Transmission of Mechanical Knowledge between Late Antiquity and Early Islam

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