Past Events by Year
May 2023
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Empire under the Night Sky: Recording Field Allocation in Chinese Local Gazetteers
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Shih-Pei Chen
- Tristan G. Brown
- Chuanyi Lyu
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:30 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Whose History Are We Reading? Bringing (Local) Knowledge from Africa into the Global Discourse
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- 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- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Allegory and Experiment in Medieval Alchemy
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00 to 18:00
- Book Presentation
Visions of New Science: On the Dialogical Poetry of Dante Alighieri and Johannes Kepler
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Talk
The Global Reconstruction of Capital
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 11:00 to 12:30
- Lecture
Soap Bones
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
April 2023
- 09:00 to 18:30
- Conference
Albert the Great on the Human Being: An Inter-disciplinary Colloquium
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Several Speakers
- Fabio Dominik De Gregorio
- Dominic Dold
- Katja Krause
- Tracy Wietecha
- Isabelle Moulin
- Sebastien Milazzo
- Amos Bertolacci
- Alessandra Beccarisi
- Paul D. Hellmeier
- Thérèse Scarpelli Cory
- Paloma Hernández Rubio
- Hans-Joachim Schmidt
- Bernhard Blankenhorn
- Tobias Hoffmann
- Franklin Harkins
- Meghan Duke
Organizer(s)- Katja Krause
- Bernhard Blankenhorn
AddressAvenue de l'Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland
RoomMiséricorde 03, room 3115- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Governing Academia in 21st Century China
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Roundtable
Roundtable: Global Perspectives on China’s Scientific Rise and Reach
- Lise Meitner Research Group
- Several Speakers
- Anna Lisa Ahlers
- Sari Hanafi (American University of Beirut)
- Daniel Murphy (Harvard Kennedy School)
- Maria Elena Rodriguez (Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro)
- Anastas Vangeli (School of Economics and Business, Ljubljana)
AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 15:30 to 16:30
- Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Researching Web Archives and the Materiality of Born-Networked Texts
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Experimental Infrastructures of Entomological Care in Colonial Taiwan: Sericultural Acclimatization
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- 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- 15:00 to 16:30
- Talk
Some Questions about the New DSM-5-TR Diagnosis of Prolonged Grief Disorder
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 11:00 to 12:30
- Lecture
Containing Schistosomes: On Questing for Containment among Overspilling Bodies, Latrines and Lakes in Rural Uganda
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
March 2023
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Seminar
Science and Supersession
- Max Planck Research Group (Premodern Sciences)
- Elly Truitt
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Presentation
The Pyramid of Knowledge: Tracing the Roots of the Intellectual Background of the Florentine "Accademia Del Cimento"
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Doorkeepers: A Case Study in the Ability and Authority of Lowly Intermediaries in Ming China (1368–1644)
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 12:00 to 13:00
- Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
“Tear your books?”: Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugues (1618) and Digital Publishing