Past Events by Year
June 2017
- 09:00 to 12:00
- Workshop
Accounting for Uncertainty—Prediction and Planning in Asia’s History
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Opelt’s Siren and Music Theory circa 1830
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00 to 20:00
- Lecture
“Don’t Write! Just Speak!” Personal Audio Postcards 1905–1907: Rediscovering a Forgotten Chapter of the Media Archaeology of Voice Mail
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:00 to 16:00
- Workshop
Decolonizing the Plan Workshop II
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- Conference
Iberian to Global Dynamics (500–1750)
Organizer(s)- Elena Paulino Montero
- Elena Serrano
- Vera-Simone Schulz
- 09:30 to 15:30
- Workshop
Translating Medicine in the Pre-modern World: Knowledge and Practice
Organizer(s)- Elaine Leong
- Sietske Fransen
- Tara Alberts
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Materiality of Resistance: The Sociotechnical Affordances of Finnish Political Struggle from Protests to Terrorism 1898-1905
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 18:00 to 20:00
- Institute's Colloquium
Evening Talk and Screening: Forgotten Paths of Empire: Firestone and the Promise of Liberia
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
Reading as Listening: The Birth of Cultural Acoustics
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Several Speakers
- Tanvi Solanki
- Commentator: Reinhart Meyer-Kalkus (Universität Potsdam)
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Workshop
Decolonizing the Plan Workshop I
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 19:00
- Book Presentation
Ressourcenmobilisierung. Wissenschaftspolitik und Forschungspraxis im NS-Herrschaftssystem
- Max Planck Research Program (GMPG)
- Several Speakers
- Sören Flachowsky
- Rüdiger Hachtmann
- Florian Schmaltz
Organizer(s)- Topography of Terror Foundation in cooperation with the MPIWG
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Fantastic Empire: Science Writing and Science Fiction in Interwar Japan, 1918–1945
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
May 2017
- 14:00 to 16:00
- Institute's Colloquium
The Scientific Journal: A Political History
Organizer(s)AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:00 to 17:00
- Conference
Knowing Nature: The Changing Foundations of Environmental Knowledge
Organizer(s)- Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
- Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society
- Center for Ecological History, Renmin University of China, Beijing
- 19:00
- Anthropocene Lectures
Anthropocene Lecture
- Dept. I
- McKenzie Wark
Organizer(s)AddressHaus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Germany
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Lecture
Sins Against Nature: Sex and Archives in Colonial New Spain, 1530-1821
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 09:00 to 18:30
- Workshop
Political Epistemology III
- Several Speakers
- Angelo Cattaneo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
- Petra Dolata (University of Calgary)
- Nadin Heé (Freie Universität Berlin)
- Dana Jalobeanu
- Franz Mauelshagen (IASS)
- Hiromi Mizuno (University of Minnesota)
- Sabrina Peric (University of Calgary)
- Maria Rentetzi (National Technical University of Athens)
- Georg Töpfer (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung)
- Pietro Daniel Omodeo
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
- 13:30 to 15:30
- Colloquium
From Pillow-Talk with the State to Huxley’s Loudspeaker: The Dystopian Sounds of Control during the Cold War
- Epistemes of Modern Acoustics
- Several Speakers
- Alexandra E. Hui
- Commentator: Veit Erlmann (University of Texas at Austin)
Organizer(s)- Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
AddressMax-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany