März 2025
- 10:00 bis 11:00
- Colloquium
Strategic Minds, Timeless Moves: Exploring Şatranç-nâme-i Kebîr (Great Book of Chess, 1503) by Firdevsî-i Rûmî
Organizer(s)AdresseMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 10:00 bis 12:30
- Reading Group
Joint Reading Group Meeting
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265 & Online- 10:00 bis 12:30
- Reading Group
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Mapping AI: How to See Planetary-Scale Artificial Intelligence
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumMain Conference Room- 10:30 bis 12:00
- Colloquium
The Anxiety of Academic Freedom in Illiberal Times
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265- 18:00 bis 21:00
- External/Cooperation Event
Thematic Mapping in Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century Germany
- Dept. III
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Marta Hanson
- Nils Güttler
- Felix de Montety
- Ute Tintemann
April 2025
- 15:00 bis 17:00
- Colloquium
The Ludic Lexicon and the History of Games
Organizer(s)AdresseHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumHahn Lecture Hall- 18:00 bis 21:00
- External/Cooperation Event
House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies
- Dept. III
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Vera V. Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
- Goce Naumov
- Cinzia Pappi
- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Colloquium
A New Era in Technological Collaboration: Israel and the Abraham Accords States (2020-2023 and after)
Organizer(s)AdresseMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 11:00 bis 12:30
- Reading Group
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265- 13:00 bis 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265 & Online
Mai 2025
- 10:00 bis 11:00
- Colloquium
Shogi in the Edo-Period (1600–1867): Glimpses of Real Life from the Ohashi Diaries
Organizer(s)AdresseMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumMain Conference Room & Online- 10:30 bis 12:00
- Colloquium
An Entangled History of Creative Problem Solving in the GDR
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 215- Seminar Series
Minescapes—Mining for Color: Socio-Natural Sites of Mineral Extraction and Color Making
Organizer(s)- 11:00 bis 12:30
- Reading Group
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265- 14:00 bis 15:30
- Colloquium
Unfamiliar Uncertainties: Grappling with Climate Change Adaptation in China
Organizer(s)AdresseMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumB18–008/Zoom- 13:00 bis 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 bis 16:00
- Reading Seminar
Reading Session with Rubina Raja
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265
Juni 2025
- 11:00 bis 12:30
- Colloquium
Reexamining Excavtion Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and Archival Practices as Knowledge Sharing, Centralization of Power and Appropriation of Cultural Heritage
Organizer(s)- 10:30 bis 12:00
- Colloquium
Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 215
Past Events
Dezember 2017
- 14:00 bis 15:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
The Body Politic: Human Being and Becoming in the Planetary Era
- Dept. Renn
- Karen Litfin
Organizer(s)- Franz Mauelshagen
AdresseIASS Potsdam Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V., Berliner Straße 130, 14467 Potsdam, Deutschland
RaumBallroom- 12:30 bis 14:00
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Network Analysis Overview
- 10:00 bis 17:00
- Workshop
Moving Crops
- Dept. III
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Dagmar Schäfer
- Alina-Sandra Cucu
Organizer(s)AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 15:30 bis 17:00
- Colloquium
Thematic Cluster: Visualizing Cosmologies
- 13:30 bis 15:30
- Colloquium
Sampling History: A New Cut
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Mehrere Vortragende
- Mara Mills
- Jonathan Sterne
- 14:00 bis 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
The Worldwide Rise of “No Religion” and Its Significance
Organizer(s)AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumMain Conference Room
November 2017
- 18:00 bis 20:00
- Lecture
Die Evolution des Wissens
Organizer(s)- Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
- Eurasien-Abteilung
AdresseEthnological Museum, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Deutschland
- 15:30 bis 17:00
- Colloquium
Engineering Cairo: Sewers and the Social
- 15:00 bis 18:00
- Presentation
The Potential of Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality in Humanities Research
Organizer(s)- Oliver Autumn (VR Business Club)
- Florian Kräutli
- Turhan Gezer
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 14:00
- Political Epistemology Talk
Creative Commensuration: the Political Stakes of the History of Science
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 15:30 bis 17:00
- Colloquium
Thematic Cluster: Colonial Techniques
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 19:00
- Lecture
Plato’s Cave Revisited: A Conversation about Education Today
Organizer(s)- Cooperation of Bard College Berlin and the Barenboim-Said Academy
- 14:00 bis 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Popular Medicine in Antiquity
- William Harris (Columbia University)
Organizer(s)AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 18:00
- Colloquium
Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time Compression
- 18:00 bis 20:00
- External/Cooperation Event
Popularisierung von Wissensgeschichte in vormodernen Gesellschaften Asiens und Afrikas
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 15:30 bis 12:00
- Colloquium
Hearing Objectified: (Re)producing Noise through Decibel Measurements and Audio Recordings under Taiwan’s Noise Management System
- 15:30 bis 17:00
- Workshop
Thematic Cluster: Colonial Techniques
Organizer(s)- Department III
- Wilko Hardenberg
AdresseMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
RaumRoom 265
Oktober 2017
- 18:00
- Colloquium
Time-Uncritical Media. Stretching and Shrinking Sound in the 1940s
- 15:30 bis 17:00
- Colloquium
The Origins of Alpine Internationalism: Alpine Clubs as Networks of Knowledge, 1874–1920
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland
- 14:00
- Political Epistemology Talk
On Collecting and Interpreting Biofacts
- Nicole Karafyllis (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
AdresseMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Deutschland