Past Events by Year
October 2017
- 11:00 to 12:30
- Colloquium
Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution
- Dept. III
- Janet Browne
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 17:00
The Historians’ Task in the Age of the Anthropocene: Finding Hope in Japan?
- Julia Adeney Thomas (University Notre Dame)
Organizer(s)- Haus der Kulturen der Welt in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies and the MPIWG.
- 17:00 to 19:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
The Historians’ Task in the Age of the Anthropocene: Finding Hope in Japan?
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
Lieutenant Riou Saves the Guardian: Navigating Theory and Experience on the High Seas
- Dept. III
- Margaret Schotte (York University)
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Colloquium
The Memory of Space in Li Daoyuan’s Shuijing Zhu
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Sensing the Limits of the World
September 2017
- 17:00 to 19:00
- Colloquium
Spirits Coming Alive: The Subtle Alchemy of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 15:30 to 17:00
- Workshop
Infrastructures of Measurement
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 00:00
- Workshop
Medical Commentaries and Comment(aries) on Medicine
- Dept. I
- Several Speakers
- Heinrich v. Staden (Princeton)
- Paul U. Unschuld (Charité Berlin)
- Nils P. Heeßel (Marburg)
- Vivian Nutton (UCL)
- Enrique Jiménez (Madrid)
- Klaus Wagensonner (Yale)
- Henry Stadhouders (Utrecht) and Giulia Ecca (BBAW Berlin)
- Glenn W. Most
Organizer(s)- Markham J. Geller
- Karine Chemla
- Glenn W. Most
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 17:00 to 18:30
- Anthropocene Lectures
Historians and the Anthropocene: A Discipline and an Interdisciplinary Concept
Organizer(s)- Christoph Rosol
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Unnatural Attitude in Weimar Musical Thought
- 14:00 to 16:30
- Workshop
Political Epistemology Series—Workshop IV
- Several Speakers
- Angelo Cattaneo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
- Georg Töpfer (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
August 2017
- Workshop
Estimated Truths: Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
July 2017
- 00:00
- Workshop
Chinese Local Gazetteers "Terminology“ Public Sessions
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 19:00
- Scholars’ Forum
Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
Organizer(s)- Freie Universität Berlin (Lukas Regeler)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
The Sonic Abject: Sound and Listening in the Legal Imagination
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
On the Parallelism between Big Data and Divinatory Semantic
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 10:00 to 17:00
- Workshop
Chinese Local Gazetteers "Terminology"
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany