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.
April 2025
May 2025
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Monastic Medicine and the Politics of Learning between China and Inner Asia: 1643–1949
- 13:00 to 14:30
- Colloquium
Shogi in the Edo-Period (1600–1867): Glimpses of Real Life from the Ohashi Diaries
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 10:00 to 11:00
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Early Science in the Islamic World
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
An Entangled History of Creative Problem Solving in the GDR
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- Seminar Series
Minescapes—Mining for Color: Socio-Natural Sites of Mineral Extraction and Color Making
Organizer(s)- 11:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 15:30 to 17:30
- Talk
Turtle Masks and Their Afterlives
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 15:30 to 17:30
- Talk
Deep Time and Indigenous Epistemologies
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Unfamiliar Uncertainties: Grappling with Climate Change Adaptation in China
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 13:00 to 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
"The Origin of All Seeds": Explaining the Causes of Diversity in Ilkhanid Agriculture
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Reading Seminar
Reading Session with Rubina Raja
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
June 2025
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and Archival Practices as Knowledge Sharing, Centralization of Power and Appropriation of Cultural Heritage
Organizer(s)- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
An Italian-Chinese Joint Venture in Cosmic Ray Astronomy
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 13:30 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Internal–External Dynamics in Late Ming External Medicine
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Colloquium
Soul and Body of Shengguantu: The Stable Terminology Needled the Way through Gameboards
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Theorizing Evolution of Social Sciences in China, Canada, and Germany: A Comparative Study
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Editing in Public: The Changing Landscape for Journals in the History of Science
- Several Speakers
- Amy Slaton
- Tiago Saraiva
- Kärin Nickelsen
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany