Past Events by Year
June 2024
- 10:00 to 14:00
- Seminar
Natural Science (Chemical-Technological and Mineralogical-Gemological) Knowledge in Georgian and Eastern Manuscripts Preserved in the Depositories of Georgia
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Irina Gogonaia
- Tamar Abuladze
Organizer(s)- Dagmar Schäfer
- Irina Gogonaia
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- Seminar
Natural Science Knowledge (Chemical-Technological and Mineralogical-Gemological) in Georgian and Eastern Manuscripts
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Irina Gogonaia
- Tamar Abuladze
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Plants from Pyramids: Biogeography, Climate, and How to Write Cultural History
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Knowing Trees: Co-producing Epistemologies of the Environment and Health
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Xi Jinping’s Perspectives on Science and Technology
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 16:00
- Discussion
Laboratory for Oral History and Experimental Media Series: The Era of the Witness
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstr. 16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB16 Seminar Room- 14:00 to 16:30
- Workshop
[RESCHEDULED] Workshop: "BIPoC, birthing bodies, fauxminism—und wie sage ich das auf Deutsch?"
- Several Speakers
- Friederike Landau-Donnelly
- Birgit Kolboske
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Computer Vision for History
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Disaster in the East Asian History of Science
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Chun Xu
- Kyonghee Lee
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 12:00 to 13:30
- Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Fantastic Creatures and Plants: Ottoman Nature in Travelogues and their Computational Explorations
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219- Workshop
Globalizing Schizophrenia: The History and Legacy of the WHO Studies of Schizophrenia
Organizer(s)- 11:00 to 13:00
- Field Trip
Objects Revealed: Unveiling Astral Manuscripts from the Berlin Turfan Collection
Organizer(s)AddressJägerstraße 22-23, 10117 Berlin, Germany
RoomBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Disposable Modernity: Masks and the Rise of the Throwaway Medical Culture
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 11:00 to 12:30
- Lecture
Archaeology of the Astral: Mingling of Astrological and Cosmological Ideas in the Context of Sea Trade between Early Historic India and Roman Egypt (1st c. BCE–5th c. CE)
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Cosmos and the Body Politic in the Byzantine World
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar RoomJournées d'étude du Collectif de recherche en études animales et mouvements animalistes (CRÉAMA)
Organizer(s)- Sam Ducourant
- Laure Gisie
- Phoebé Mendes
- Rachel Lapicque
- Nolwenn Veillard
- Sarah Zanaz
- 12:00 to 13:30
"We still don't know"—Brown Bag Lunch with Robert A. Aronowitz
- 17:30 to 19:30
- Talk
Coping with Environmental Challenges in the Exploration, Development, and Production of African Mineral Resources
- Samuel O. Akande
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Lecture
Metaphysics beyond Ontology and Aesthetics
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18-008/Online- 12:00 to 13:00
- Lecture
On Obstacle Courses and Other Racings (or an Outburst about Reusing 3D Models of Cultural Heritage Objects for Research and Conservation)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform