Past Events by Year
April 2019
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
VIKUS Viewer
- Research IT
- Christopher Pietsch
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 16:00
- Seminar
Peter Bergmann on Observables in Hamiltonian General Relativity
- Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
- J. Brian Pitts
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 16:00 to 18:30
- Workshop
Knowledge and Science in the Middle Ages: Some Current Research Projects
Organizer(s)- Katja Krause
- Lydia Schumacher
AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- Workshop
Power in Medicine: Interrogating the Place of Medical Knowledge in the Modern Middle East
AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLaue Room- 15:00 to 17:00
- Roundtable
Of Materiality and Minds: Provocations in the History of Science Across Environments
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Ian Miller (Harvard U.)
- Bill Tsutsui (Hendrix College)
- Kjell Erickson (Kyoto U.)
- Nadin Hée (Freie U.)
- Amanda Crompton
- Laurence Douny
- Jaehwan Hyun
- Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
- Annapurna Mamidipudi
- Michael Pettit
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 22:30
- 500th Anniversary Event
Leonardo da Vinci. An Inquisitive Man: Technologist, Scientist, and Artist
Organizer(s)- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
An Awkward Proposal: Reconciling the Philosophy and History of Science through Confronting These Fields' Exclusion of Indigenous Knowledge
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 19:30 to 21:30
- Lecture
Experimenteller Geist
Organizer(s)AddressKunstverein Neukölln e.V., Mainzer Str. 42, 12053 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Divination Engines: A Media History of Text Prediction
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
Blockchains
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
March 2019
- Workshop
Non-Empirical Physics from a Historical Perspective
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Inventing the Decibel: An Episode in the History of Sonic Thinking
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Musicians as Technicians: Music, Technology, and Labor in the American Film Industry, 1925–1933
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Presentation
Where is Astronomy Between 1633 and 1686? The Intermediate System by Giovanni Battista Riccioli S.J.
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 15:30 to 17:00
- Premodern Conversations Series
The Poetry of Sanskrit Astronomy: The "King among Canons" by the One called "Eternal Bliss"
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
How to use Jupyter Notebooks
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Science and Indian Nationalism
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLise-Meitner-Saal- 11:00 to 13:00
- Symposium
Anthropocene: Archaeology of the Present
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Jennifer Colten
- Matthew Fluharty
- Natalie Mueller
- Lynn Peemoeller
- Robert Spengler
- William Taylor
- Jesse Vogler
AddressCahokia Mounds State Historic Site, Collinsville, Illinois, 62234, United States
- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Workshop
How to Create Maps with Palladio
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
February 2019
- 09:30 to 17:30
- Workshop
Illustrating Scientific Books in Early Modern Europe
- Library
- Several Speakers
- Roger Gaskell
- Esther Chen
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLibrary