Past Events by Year
March 2025
- 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
- 13:30 to 15:00
- Lecture
Reconsidering the Mamluk Village: Readings on al-Dimashqī’s Filaḥa Manual
- Dept. III
- Prof. Dr. Heba Mahmoud Saad Abdelnaby
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Discussion: Collective Life / Collectivities beyond Life
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 11:00 to 12:00
Reclaiming Turtles All the Way Down Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)- 11:00 to 12:00
- Reading Group
Metals, Minerals, and Life Cycle Reading Group Meeting
Organizer(s)- 14:00 to 15:00
- Colloquium
Mapping the Literary Evidences of Board Games in Medieval Marathi Literature
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
Science Popularization and Environmental Food Safety Risks in China
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 10:00 to 12:00
- Talk
Conserving Community-based Palestinian Environmental Knowledge
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomVilla, Room V005/Seminar Room- 14:00 to 15:30
- Institute's Colloquium
Communicating Menstruation
- Several Speakers
- Camilla Røstvik
- Saniya Lee Ghanoui
- Jana Wittenzellner
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Main Conference Room, Max Planck Institute for Molecular Genetics, Ihnestraße 63–73, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Meeting
The Pharmacologist’s Dilemma: Thalidomide, Abortion, and Medical Ethics in Women’s Healthcare
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstraße 16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomConference Room- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Charting the Shattered Sea: Geopolitical Conflicts and East Asian Oceanography in the 20th Century
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265
January 2025
- 18:00 to 21:00
- External/Cooperation Event
How the Plague Became Globally Visible – Mapping as a Method in Modern Western Medicine
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Primary Source Reading Group
Primary Source Reading: Medical Sections in Chinese and Japanese Household Encyclopedias
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 to 16:00
- Primary Source Reading Group
Primary Source Reading: Medical Sections in Chinese and Japanese Household Encyclopedias
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
China in Global Science: An Interim Stocktaking
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 14:00 to 16:00
- Meeting
The March: A Prayer from Mining Mountains
Organizer(s)AddressBoltzmannstr. 16, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB16 Seminar Room- 10:00 to 12:00
- Workshop
Historical Astronomy of China: A Practical Workshop
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265