The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) offers a diverse program of public events, including colloquia, seminars, and workshops. Our Institute’s Colloquium is open and free to attend. Our other events often require registration or invitation—please check each individual event for details.
May 2024
- 11:00 to 12:30
Chinese Maps as Cosmographs
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomLibrary- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Beyond Translation: Multilingual Practices in the Transmission of Islamicate Astral Sciences to 13th–14th-Century China
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Tools of Knowledge: Revitalising a Legacy Database of Scientific Instrument Makers
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
Follow the Thread: Entangled Human Tissues and Animal Fiber
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 11:00 to 12:00
- Lecture
Ptolemaic Astronomy through Computer Vision: A Building Platform for Research on Astronomical Diagrams
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform
June 2024
- 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- 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 Room- 11:00 to 13:00
- Field Trip
Objects Revealed: TBC
Organizer(s)AddressJägerstraße 22-23, 10117 Berlin, Germany
RoomBerlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften- 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- 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
July 2024
- Conference
Region, Practice, and Genre: Putting Knowledge to Use in the History of Science in South Asia. "Regionality of Knowledge"
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Prachi Deshpande
- Eric Moses Gurevitch
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- Conference
Region, Practice, and Genre: Putting Knowledge to Use in the History of Science in South Asia. "Practical Knowledge and Knowledgeable Practice"
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Agathe Keller
- Shireen Hamza
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 08:00 to 17:00
- Conference
Charting the European D-SEA: Digital Scholarship in East Asian Studies
AddressStaatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße, Potsdamer Straße 33 , 10785 Berlin, Germany
- 12:00 to 13:00
- Lecture
Archives by and for Research in the History of Science and Digital Humanities: Describe, Annotate, Preserve, and Disseminate
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 12:00 to 13:00
- Lecture
Computer Vision Approaches for Greek Vase Paintings
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- Conference
Region, Practice, and Genre: Putting Knowledge to Use in the History of Science in South Asia. "Genres of Knowledge"
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack House, Conference Venue of the Max Planck Society, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany