The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) offers a diverse program of public events, including colloquia, seminars, and workshops. Our Institute’s Colloquium is open and free to attend. Our other events often require registration or invitation—please check each individual event for details.
March 2025
- 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 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- 10:00 to 12:30
- Reading Group
Joint Reading Group Meeting
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online- 10:00 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
- Institute's Colloquium
Mapping AI: How to See Planetary-Scale Artificial Intelligence
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
The Anxiety of Academic Freedom in Illiberal Times
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265- 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
April 2025
- 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- 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
- 14:00 to 15:30
- Colloquium
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- 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- 13:00 to 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online
May 2025
- 10:00 to 11:00
- Colloquium
Shogi in the Edo-Period (1600–1867): Glimpses of Real Life from the Ohashi Diaries
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomMain Conference Room & Online- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
An Entangled History of Creative Problem Solving in the GDR
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215- Seminar Series
Minescapes—Mining for Color: Socio-Natural Sites of Mineral Extraction and Color Making
Organizer(s)- 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
Unfamiliar Uncertainties: Grappling with Climate Change Adaptation in China
Organizer(s)AddressMax Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomB18–008/Zoom- 13:00 to 14:30
- Reading Group
Manners of Reckoning Reading Group Meeting
AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 265 & Online
June 2025
- 10:30 to 12:00
- Colloquium
Science after Progress. Ethnographic Approaches to Anthropogenic Biologies and Chemicals
Organizer(s)AddressMPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Germany
RoomRoom 215