Past Events by Year
December 2014
- 14:00 to 17:40
- Workshop
Epistemic History of Architecture
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Elisabeth Kieven
- Jürgen Renn
- Wilhelm Osthues
- Hermann Schlimme
- David Warburton
- Wolfgang Lefèvre
- Gerd Graßhoff
- Dietmar Kurapkat
- Ulrike Feuerbach
- Rosel Pientka-Hinz
- Antonio Becchi
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
On Materiality and Epistemic Things
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
Damage
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York)
Organizer(s)- MPRG “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe” and the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the University of Glasgow
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:20
- Lecture
Early Modern Mathematics: Towards a Social History of Mathematical Consistency
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
Technical Art History: A Farewell to the Humanities?
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Arjan de Koomen (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Organizer(s)- MPRG “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe” and the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the University of Glasgow
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Colloquium
Berlin Doctoral Forum for the History of Science
Organizer(s)- Anke te Heesen
- Philipp van der Eijk (HU Berlin)
- Friedrich Steinle
- Viktoria Tkaczyk
- Veronika Lipphardt
- Sven Dupre
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Institutionalization of Science in Early modern Europe
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Knives, Saws, and Hands. Dichotomies of Surgical Design and Knowledge (ca. 1400–1600)
- Jack Hartnell (MPIWG/V&A, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Organizer(s)- RG Dupré
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
November 2014
- 00:00
- Workshop
Constructing Hellenism in Classical Islam and Renaissance Europe: Transfer, Appropriation and Transformation
Organizer(s)- Han Lamers (HU Berlin / UGent)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:00 to 16:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Craftwork as Problem Solving: Studies with Fine-woodwork Trainees and Instructors at London’s Building Crafts College
- Trevor Marchand (School of Oriental & African Studies, London)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
‘Held up to the light’: Material Mimesis and Cross-Cultural Technologies in Italy, c.1400–c.1600
- Art and Knowledge in Pre–Modern Europe
- Marta Ajmar (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Unusual Lives: Historicizing Life as a Problem of Knowledge
- Several Speakers
- Anna Andreeva
- David Armstrong (Kings College)
- Jenny Bangham
- Teri Chettiar
- Isabel Gabel
- Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard)
- Jutta Müller-Tamm (FU)
- Hugh Raffles (The New School)
- Sophia Roosth
- Michael Stanley-Baker
- Claudia Stein
Organizer(s)- Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge: Teri Chettiar
- Rohan Deb Roy
- Michael Stanley-Baker
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 16:00
- Colloquium
Preserving and Recycling Knowledge: Coloured Glass in the Netherlands, 1650–1800
- Computational History of Science
- Marieke Hendriksen (MPIWG, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
Wachstum ohne Alternativen? Geschichtskulturelle und wissensgeschichtliche Dimensionen von Wachstumsnarrativen
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Seminar
Medical Demography in Interwar Angola. Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:30 to 12:30
- Seminar
From Anatomical Collection to National Museum, ca. 1895: or How Women´s Pelvises and Skulls Began to Speak the Language of Mexican National History
- Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge about Human Variation
- Laura Cházaro García
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
October 2014
- 11:00 to 13:00
- Seminar
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge after the Genome
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Early Modern Colour Practices Final Workshop
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany