Abstract image of the Tree of Knowledge by Hilma af Klint

The Tree of Knowledge, HaK133  by Hilma af Klint. Courtesy of the Hilma af Klint Foundation

Dept. III

Colloquium 2023-24

Dept. III: Artifacts, Action, Knowledge

Director Dagmar Schäfer

T +49 30 22667 151

schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

 

The Department III Colloquia are regular meetings for the department members to discuss our work in progress, to comment, and to help each other in our writing process. The format is a discussion of a pre-circulated paper, led by an introductory comment by an external discussant. 

Spring Colloquium

2024

Challenging the Social Gap in African Lingustics MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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Beyond Translation: Multilingual Practices in the Transmission of Islamicate Astral Sciences to 13th–14th-Century China MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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Cosmos and the Body Politic in the Byzantine World MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

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Disaster in the East Asian History of Science MPIWG Villa, Room V005/Seminar Room

  • Several Speakers
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Fall Colloquium

2023

The Making of Calculable Territory in Song Dynasty China, 1000–1250 MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Internal Rotation/s. Sociomaterial practices and Embodiments in Hugo Sellheim’s Experiments on Birth Mechanics MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Ploughing for Knowledge: Tao Zongyi (1316-?) MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Knowledge-Making after Farming Manuals: Farming Progress Dispatches in Late Chosŏn Korea MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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The Written Forms of External Medicine in the Seventeenth Century: The Case of Waike Zhengzong MPIWG Room 265 & Online

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Dept III Spring 2024 Colloquium Poster
2024-EVENT-deptschaefer-spring-colloquium.pdf
Past Dept. III Colloquiua
Full List of Dept. III events since 2017