Past Events by Year
April 2025
- 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- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
POSTPONED: A New Era in Technological Collaboration: Israel and the Abraham Accords States (2020-2023 and after)
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomZoom/Online Meeting Platform- 18:00 to 21:00
- External/Cooperation Event
House Models for the Living and the Dead across Ancient Eurasia: Synchronicities and Diachronicities of Cross-Cultural Typologies
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Vera V. Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
- Goce Naumov
- Cinzia Pappi
- 15:00 to 17:00
- Colloquium
The Ludic Lexicon and the History of Games
Organizer(s)AddressHarnack-Haus, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomHahn Lecture Hall- 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
- 16:00 to 17:30
- Reading Group
Reading Group: Animal Fibers as Sources of Inquiry
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 141- 12:00 to 13:00
- Digital Humanities Brown Bag Lunch
Exploring the Use of AI and Large Language Models at the Institute: A Roundtable
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 219
March 2025
- 18:00 to 21:00
- External/Cooperation Event
Thematic Mapping in Eighteenth to Nineteenth Century Germany
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Marta Hanson
- Nils Güttler
- Felix de Montety
- Ute Tintemann
- 15:30 to 16:30
- Reading Group
Troubling Exposure Reading Group Meeting
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
The Anxiety of Academic Freedom in Illiberal Times
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Mapping AI: How to See Planetary-Scale Artificial Intelligence
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 10:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Joint Reading Group Meeting "Manners of Reckoning" and "Turtles All the Way Down"
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:00 to 11:00
- Colloquium
Strategic Minds, Timeless Moves: Exploring Şatranç-nâme-i Kebîr (Great Book of Chess, 1503) by Firdevsî-i Rûmî
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
China’s Scientists and International Research on Climate Change
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 15:30
- Talk
Oral-History.Digital: Risky Hormones
- 10:00 to 14:00
- Primary Source Reading Group
Primary Source Reading: Bonesetting between Tibetan Scholarly Medicine and Mongolian “Common Knowledge"
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 18:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
Sebastian Münster’s Cosmography: Making Maps and Imaging Germany
- Dept. III
- Several Speakers
- Zsolt G. Török
- Petra Svatek
AddressJägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin, Germany
RoomLeibniz-Saal- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
On Her Way to Cook: Women, Technology, and Cooking Knowledge in Peruvian History
- Dept. II
- Alejandra Osorio Tarazona, HU Berlin
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 12:00 to 13:00
- Reading Group
Metals, Minerals, and Life Cycle Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)
February 2025
- 11:00 to 13:00
A Practitioner’s Bond to His "Theorica": Conrad Heingarter’s Intellectual Journey in the Margins of His Manuscripts of the "Theorica Planetarum"
- Eleonora Andriani