Past Events by Year
June 2023
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
A Global History of the Dissertation that Shows the Transformations of the Scholar and Scholarship
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 16:00 to 18:00
- Reading Group
"Household Encyclopedia" Primary Source Reading Group
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
The Fetus and the Lamb: The Many Histories of the Auckland Antenatal Steroid Clinical Trial
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Tatjana Buklijas
Organizer(s)AddressInstitut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin - Charité Berlin, Institut für Geschichte der Medizin und Ethik in der Medizin - Charité Berlin Thielallee 71, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:30 to 18:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- Workshop
Historical Epistemologies of Planetary Modelling
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Dania Achermann
- Leah Aronowsky
- Etienne Benson
- Marco Clausen
- Julia Sánchez Dorado
- Christoph Engemann
- Emil Flatø
- Bernard Dionysius Geoghegan
- Johan Gärdebo
- Orit Halpern
- Sabine Höhler
- Erik Isberg
- Aisha Kadiri
- Erik Ljungberg
- Matteo Pasquinelli
- Drew Pendergrass
- Jürgen Renn
- Christoph Rosol
- Sverker Sörlin
- Thomas Turnbull
- Troy Vettesse
- Adam Wickberg
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Colloquium
Science as Prophecy: Measuring Climates Past and Future
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- Workshop
The Waste of the Body: Workshop II
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Earth System Science in Political Context
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Sanskrit into Arabic: On the Reception of Ayurvedic Medicine in Early Abbasid Society
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Oliver Kahl
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Talk
Latrines, Vaccines, and Socialist Doctors: Health in Mozambique’s Weekly Magazine "O Tempo"
- Max Planck Research Group (Biomedical Sciences)
- Alila Brossard Antonielli
Organizer(s)AddressHumboldt Universität zu Berlin,, Friedrichstraße 191, Raum 5028, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Room5028
May 2023
- Workshop
Empire under the Night Sky: The Role of Fenye (Astrological Contents) in Late Imperial China
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Talk
A Cosmopolitan Parasite: Tracking Toxoplasma Between Laboratory Diagnostics and Regionalized Public Health Measures
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Reading Celestial Omens in Turfan and Dunhuang. Babylonian Divination Models and their Medieval Reception on the Silk Road
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Explainable AI in the Digital Humanities
- Research IT
- Several Speakers
- Oliver Eberle
- Hassan El-Hajj
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Colloquium
Energy Demand Forecasts: Constructing Demand or a Means to Save Energy?
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- Talk
City Walls, Excavations, and Explosives: New Sources on Innovative Engineering in the Late Tang
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Canceled: Atomic Junction: Nuclear Power in Africa at the Crossroads
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Infinite Expanses? The Politics of China’s Space Science and Technology
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 16:30 to 18:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141