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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Depicting Alchemical Change
Time
12/12/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Room 5028
Organizers
Prof. Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Jennifer Rampling (Princeton)
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Institute’s Colloquium 2018-19
Where Can the Historian of Science Stand? Presentism and Philosophy in the Historiography of Science
Time
12/11/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Hasok Chang (University of Cambridge)
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Ernst Mayr Lecture 2018
The Psychology, Biology, and History of Violence
Time
12/11/2018
18:00 - 21:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Leibniz-Saal, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
Die Ernst Mayr Lecture ist eine von der BBAW und dem Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin gestiftete Vorlesungsreihe auf dem Gebiet der Biowissenschaften. Mit der Vorlesung soll die Entwicklung des biologischen Denkens von führenden Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftlern verschiedener Disziplinen einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit vermittelt werden. Die Reihe bezieht sich damit auf eines der Hauptwerke des Ornithologen und Evolutionsbiologen Ernst Mayr (1904 – 2005), „The Growth of Biological Thought“.
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Colloquium
Digital Humanities Kolloquium
Time
12/07/2018
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
Die „Digital Humanities“ sind eine der wichtigsten Entwicklungen im Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften in den letzten Jahren. Um den Dialog zu diesem Thema weiter zu intensivieren, organisieren die TELOTA-Initiative und das Zentrum Sprache der BBAW unterstützt vom Forschungsverbund if|DH|b ein monatliches Digital-Humanities-Kolloquium.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
TBA
Time
12/05/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Room 5028
Organizers
Prof. Anke te Heesen
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Festvortrag
Antike Motive in der bildenden Kunst
Time
12/05/2018
19:00 - 21:00
Location
Neues Museum, Museumsinsel Berlin, Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
Organizers
Berliner Antike Kolleg
Lecturer
Michael Triegel, Christoph Markschies
Remarks
Mit den antiken Motiven in seiner Kunst beschäftigt sich der Leipziger Maler Michael Triegel in einem Vortrag im Rahmen einer Festveranstaltung des Berliner Antike-Kollegs am 5. Dezember um 19 Uhr im Neuen Museum. Triegel spricht über seine Malerei, die in der Tradition der Malerei des 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts steht und dennoch modern ist; seine Werke wurden mehrfach ausgezeichnet. Auch für die Gestaltung von Kirchenräume wurde der Künstler national wie international bekannt. Außerdem werden an diesem Abend den Absolventinnen und Absolventen der altertumswissenschaftlichen Graduiertenschule Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS) ihre Abschlusszertifikate verliehen. Die Veranstaltung „Berliner Antike im Griechischen Hof – Personen und Objekte“ findet jährlich statt. Der Eintritt ist kostenfrei, um Anmeldung wird bis zum 28. November gebeten.
Links
sekretariat@berliner-antike-kolleg.org
Talk
‚Ein Blick in das Ganze der Natur‘ heute – Hommage an Michel Serres
Time
12/05/2018
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin
Organizers
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung (ZfL), in collaboration with the ICI Berlin
Lecturer
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Berlin)
Remarks
The event, like all events at the ICI Berlin, is open to the public, free of charge. The audience is presumed to consent to a possible recording on the part of the ICI Berlin. If you would like to attend the event yet might require assistance, please contact Event Management. Unfortunately this event is fully booked. Please register for the waiting list at info@ici-berlin.org
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Guest Lecture in the Series “WIssensfragen”
Digital Plato
Time
11/30/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum (Erdgeschoss), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Charlotte Schubert (Universität Leipzig)
Remarks
Please register if you wish to attend.
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Workshop
Anfangsgründe: Aitiologisches Erzählen in Mythos, Literatur und Wissenschaft
Time
11/29/2018 - 11/30/2018
Location
Freie Universität Berlin “Holzlaube” Raum 2.2051 Fabeckstraße 23-25 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Susanne Gödde, Sebastian Zerhoch (TOPOI)
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Conference
The World Soul
Time
11/29/2018 - 11/30/2018
Location
Topoi Building Mitte 1.03 Hannoversche Straße 6 10115 Berlin Germany
Organizers
Kerstin Helf (TOPOI)
Remarks
Please register with Kerstin Helf
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Von den Anfängen des Museums im Fremden: Ding-Beschreibungen in Reisebericht und Sammlung (1356–1565) als Konstituenten frühneuzeitlicher Ordnungskategorien
Time
11/28/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Room 5028
Organizers
Prof. Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Antonia Krihl (Siegen)
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Farbreferenztabellen im Vergleich: Das Modell “Rezept-Nummer-Muster” vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert
Time
11/26/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3012
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Giulia Simonini (Berlin)
Remarks
Welten trennen die Pflanzenabbildungen, welche Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826), ein professioneller Zeichner, und Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), ein außerordentlich vielseitiger Forscher und Gelehrter, angefertigt haben. Dies gilt in besonderem Maße für die Dokumentation der Farbe: während Bauer im Gelände einen von ihm entworfenen Farbcode verwendete, verließen sich Humboldt und sein Begleiter Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) in ihrem Journal Botanique auf Farbangaben in Worten. Diese Unterschiede hatten weitreichende Konsequenzen auf die Qualität der Drucke, welche Bauer bzw. seine Auftraggeber und Humboldt veröffentlicht haben, und illustrieren beispielhaft, was Bildkritik in den biologischen Wissenschaften zu leisten vermag. Der Vortrag präsentiert Ergebnisse der mehrjährigen Beschäftigung des Autors mit botanischer Illustration von ihren Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Sie steht in Zusammenhang mit der zunehmend kritischer werdenden Interpretation von Protologen, die häufig auch gedruckte Illustrationen enthalten oder, seltener, sich auf ungedruckte Illustrationen beziehen. Prof. Dr. H. Walter Lack ist Biologe mit Arbeitsschwerpunkten in der Taxonomie der Compositen und der Geschichte der Pflanzentaxonomie und der botanischen Illustration, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der wissenschaftlichen Expeditionen und der Veröffentlichung ihrer Ergebnisse. Von 1991 bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2014 war er einer der Direktoren am Botanischen Garten und Botanischen Museum Berlin. Er wurde u.a. mit der Sibthorp Medaille der Universität Oxford und der Engler Medaille der International Association for Plant Taxonomy ausgezeichnet und ist Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen und der Linnean Society. Er ist Autor mehrere Bücher auch zur Geschichte der Botanik, darunter The Flora Graeca Story (Oxford University Press), Ein Garten Eden (Taschen), The Bauer Brothers (Prestel) und Alexander von Humboldt und die botanische Erforschung Amerikas (Prestel).
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Talk
Anatomy Lessons for a Postindustrial Age
Time
11/26/2018
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin
Organizers
An ICI Berlin event in cooperation with The American Academy in Berlin
Lecturer
Rosalind Morris (Columbia University)
Remarks
A lung cemented with rock dust. An earth that breathes. A machine that does not cough but grows weary nonetheless. A thumb in the shape of a shovel. A pick in the shape of an arm. A leg that might or might not be mine. These anatomical figures, drawn from conversations with informal migrant miners in southern Africa, comprise elements of an idiom in which the haunting effects and residual violence of natural resource extraction are experienced in an era of postindustrial ruin. In this lecture, Rosalind Morris reflects on the complex temporality that haunts the history of natural resource extraction economies, and especially mining, in which the dream of progress is written against a horizon of finitude, and where the past leaks forward as a toxic residue but also as a lure for return. The lecture is accompanied by video clips and photography from her ongoing research and filmmaking.
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Exhibition’s Opening Event
Architekturen der Wissenschaft. Die Universitäten Berlins in europäischer Perspektive
Time
11/22/2018
18:00
Location
Lichthof der Technischen Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Gabriele Metzler; PD Dr. Arne Schirrmacher (Technische Universität Berlin)
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Symposium
Freunde der offenen Gesellschaft
Time
11/21/2018 - 11/21/2018
14:00 - 20:00
Location
ufaFabrik Berlin - Internationales Kulturzentrum, Viktoriastr. 10-18, 12105 Berlin
Organizers
Matthias Tang (IASS Potsdam)
Lecturer
Thomas Bauer (Universität Münster), Robert Habeck (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen), Lisa Herzog (Hochschule für Politik München), Matthias Kleiner (Leibniz-Gemeinschaft), Constanze Kurz (netzpolitik.org und Chaos Computer Club), William K. Reilly (ehem. US-amerikanische Umweltschutzbehörde EPA), Jürgen Renn (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte), Teresa Ribera (Spanische Ministerin für den Ökologischen Wandel), Bernd Ulrich (Die Zeit) und Konrad Wolf(Minister für Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung und Kultur des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz).
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
What Do the Recently Excavated Mathematical Manuscripts from Early Imperial China Teach us about the Contexts in which They Were Produced?
Time
11/19/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H3013
Organizers
Prof. Anke te Heesen, Prof. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Karin Chemla (Paris)
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Public Talk
Wie entsteht die moderne Wissenschaft / Wie entstehen wissenschaftliche Disziplinen?
Time
11/16/2018
14:15 - 15:45
Location
Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin in Hörsaal A
Organizers
Freie Universität Berlin, “Forschungsorientierte Lehre”
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Renn (MPIWG)
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Der Verhaltensforscher Konrad Lorenz als Wissenschaftsstar in den 1950er und 60er Jahren
Time
11/14/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Room 5028
Organizers
Prof. Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Doris Kaufmann (Bremen/Berlin)
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Institute’s Colloquium 2018-19
The Curious History of the Least Action Principle
Time
11/13/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Yemima Ben-Menahem (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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Play
Kernfragen – Gedenken an Lise Meitner
Time
11/13/2018
19:00
Location
FU Berlin, Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke (FU Berlin), Sandra Schüddekopf
Lecturer
Portraittheater Wien
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Farbe in den Pflanzenabbildungen von Ferdinand Bauer und Alexander v. Humboldt
Time
11/12/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3012
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
H. Walter Lack (Berlin)
Remarks
Welten trennen die Pflanzenabbildungen, welche Ferdinand Bauer (1760–1826), ein professioneller Zeichner, und Alexander von Humboldt (1769–1859), ein außerordentlich vielseitiger Forscher und Gelehrter, angefertigt haben. Dies gilt in besonderem Maße für die Dokumentation der Farbe: während Bauer im Gelände einen von ihm entworfenen Farbcode verwendete, verließen sich Humboldt und sein Begleiter Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) in ihrem Journal Botanique auf Farbangaben in Worten. Diese Unterschiede hatten weitreichende Konsequenzen auf die Qualität der Drucke, welche Bauer bzw. seine Auftraggeber und Humboldt veröffentlicht haben, und illustrieren beispielhaft, was Bildkritik in den biologischen Wissenschaften zu leisten vermag. Der Vortrag präsentiert Ergebnisse der mehrjährigen Beschäftigung des Autors mit botanischer Illustration von ihren Anfängen bis in die Gegenwart. Sie steht in Zusammenhang mit der zunehmend kritischer werdenden Interpretation von Protologen, die häufig auch gedruckte Illustrationen enthalten oder, seltener, sich auf ungedruckte Illustrationen beziehen. Prof. Dr. H. Walter Lack ist Biologe mit Arbeitsschwerpunkten in der Taxonomie der Compositen und der Geschichte der Pflanzentaxonomie und der botanischen Illustration, mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der wissenschaftlichen Expeditionen und der Veröffentlichung ihrer Ergebnisse. Von 1991 bis zu seiner Pensionierung 2014 war er einer der Direktoren am Botanischen Garten und Botanischen Museum Berlin. Er wurde u.a. mit der Sibthorp Medaille der Universität Oxford und der Engler Medaille der International Association for Plant Taxonomy ausgezeichnet und ist Mitglied der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Göttingen und der Linnean Society. Er ist Autor mehrere Bücher auch zur Geschichte der Botanik, darunter The Flora Graeca Story (Oxford University Press), Ein Garten Eden (Taschen), The Bauer Brothers (Prestel) und Alexander von Humboldt und die botanische Erforschung Amerikas (Prestel).
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Scholars’ Forum
AiD-Studientag – »Bewegte Zeiten«
Time
11/09/2018
10:15 - 16:30
Location
Gropius Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7, 10963 Berlin
Organizers
Archäologie in Deutschland
Remarks
Der Studientag der AiD findet dieses Jahr am 9. November 2018 im Gropius Bau in Berlin statt. Anlässlich des Europäischen Kulturerbejahres 2018 zeigen das Museum für Vor- und Frühgeschichte und der Verband der Landesarchäologen im Gropius Bau die Ausstellung »Bewegte Zeiten – Archäologie in Deutschland«. Der Verband der Landesarchäologen lädt im Rahmen des AiD-Studientages zu Vorträgen und einer Führung durch die Ausstellung ein. Die Vorträge werden im Kinosaal des Gropius Baus gehalten. Um Anmeldung wird gebeten!
Links
redaktion@wbg-wissenverbindet.de
Öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Kolloquium in memoriam Siegfried Wollgast (1933–2017)
Time
11/08/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin, BVV-Saal
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Dr. Berthold Heinicke (Dresden): Dreißig Jahre „Philosophie in Deutschland zwischen Reformation und Aufklärung, 1550-1650“ Prof. Dr. Armin Jähne (Bernau): Der „Oberlausitzer“ Siegfried Wollgast. Es war nicht nur die deutsche und europäische Frühaufklärung... Prof. Dr. Gerhard Banse (Präsident der Leibniz-Sozietät): Siegfried Wollgast und das „Phänomen“ Technik PD Dr. Hartmut Hecht (Berlin): Vernunft und Glaube. Denkanstöße von Siegfried Wollgast
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International Workshop
Transfer und Adaption von Sprach- und Schriftwesen im Alten Orient
Time
11/08/2018 - 11/09/2018
Location
Einstein-Zentrum CHRONOI, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 7, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
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Book Presentation
Das Historische Quartett diskutiert neue Bücher zur Zeitgeschichte
Time
11/08/2018
18:00
Location
Brandenburgische Landeszentrale für politische Bildung, Heinrich-Mann-Allee 107 (Haus 17), 14473 Potsdam
Organizers
Zentrum für zeithistorische Forschung, Potsdam
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Bern Greiner (Berliner Kolleg Kalter Krieg), Prof. Dr. Anke te Heesen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Dr. Jan-Holger Kirsch (ZZF Potsdam), Dr. Annette Schuhmann (ZZF Potsdam)
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Kolloquium anlässlich des 90. Geburtstages von Prof. Dr. Hans-Jürgen Treder (1928-2006)
Zeitmaß und Kosmologie
Time
11/08/2018
13:30 - 16:00
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin, BVV-Saal
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Lecturer
Dr. Horst Kant (Berlin): Biographischer Abriss & Hans-Jürgen Treder als Physikhistoriker Prof. Dr. Dierck-Ekkehard Liebscher (Potsdam); Eigenzeit und Weltalter Dr. Klaus Mauersberger (Dresden) & Monika Schulz-Fieguth (Potsdam): Gedanken zu einem Bildband über Hans-Jürgen Treder
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International Workshop
Transfer und Adaption von Sprach- und Schriftwissen im Alten Orient
Time
11/08/2018 - 11/09/2018
Location
Einstein-Zentrum CHRONOI, Otto-von-Simson-Straße 7, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Remarks
Der Sonderforschungsbereich 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ untersucht Prozesse des Wissenswandels anhand exemplarischer Problemkomplexe in vormodernen Kulturen. Während „Episteme“ Wissensbestände bezeichnet, denen Geltung zuerkannt wird, bezieht sich „Bewegung“ auf den Transfer und den Wandel bzw. die Neukontextualisierung dieser Bestände. Das Teilprojekt „Episteme als Konfigurations-Prozess: Binnenströme des Wissens in keilschriftlichen Textcorpora“ untersucht den Transfer von Wissensbeständen anhand ausgewählter Textcorpora des 3. bis 1. Jt. v. Chr., die sich unter anderem durch das Phänomen der (schriftlichen) Mehrsprachigkeit auszeichnen. Obwohl sich Mehrsprachigkeit soziolinguistisch unterschiedlich typisieren lässt, resultiert sie stets aus dem Transfer von Schrift- bzw. Sprachwissen zwischen zwei Kontexten. Während beispielsweise der sumerisch-akkadische Bilingualismus im sargonischen Südbabylonien auf ein Sprachkontaktszenario zurückgeht, dokumentieren die Übernahme von Sumerogrammen in Texten des Palastarchivs von Ebla im 24. Jh. v. Chr. oder die Verwendung sumerischer und akkadischer Wortzeichen in hethitischen Texten andersgeartete Transferszenarien. Anhand zeitlich, räumlich und im Hinblick auf die sozilinguistischen Rahmenbedingungen diversifizierter Fallstudien geht der Workshop der Frage nach, unter welchen Bedingungen und in welchen Formen sich Transfer und Adaption von Sprach- und Schriftwissen im Bereich der Keilschriftkulturen des 3. bis 1. Jt. v. Chr. vollzogen.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Musikwissenschaft ausstellen. Der ‚Congrès international de l'histoire de la musique‘ auf der Pariser Weltausstellung 1900
Time
11/07/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Room 5028
Organizers
Prof. Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Signe Rotter-Broman (UdK Berlin)
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Workshop
Virtual Models and Scientific Value – Historic Studies and Virtual Models in the Age of Digital Humanities
Time
11/07/2018 - 11/08/2018
Location
Technische Universität Berlin, Hauptgebäude, H2036, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin
Organizers
Virtual Multimodal Museum
Remarks
3D-Models, virtual reconstructions and interpreted point clouds are since some time omni-present in Architectural History and Building Archeology. Usually the underlying complexelaboration processes are not apparent in the result. Backed by the London Charter forthe computer-based visualisation of cultural heritage, there are a lot of efforts to integrate(1) information about human processes of understanding and interpretation of data ob-jects (paradata) and (2) information about semiautomated interpretation processes into a scientifically valid computer model.The international conference not just shows the state of the art. It aims to bring together major exponents in the field, to discuss emerging standards and to disseminate shared best practices which enable us to fully exploit the potential of digital Architectural History.
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Workshop
Bücher in Bewegung
Time
11/06/2018 - 11/07/2018
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum (Erdgeschoss), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Remarks
Please register if you wish to participate.
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Die Philologie der Physiker: Zur humanistischen Faszinationsgeschichte der Quantentheorie
Time
11/05/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3012
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Magdalena & Martin Gronau (Erfurt)
Remarks
Die Korrespondenzen und Schriften der bedeutendsten, vornehmlich aus dem deutschen Sprachraum stammenden Atomphysiker sind reich an Rekursen auf altgriechische Begriffs- und Bildwelten. Dieses Referenzsystem war zahlreichen Physikern, von Max Planck bis Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker, durch ihre profunde humanistische bzw. altphilologische Bildung zugänglich, deren Einflüsse sie immer wieder als zentral für ihr naturwissenschaftliches Schaffen herausstellten. Unser Kooperationsprojekt widmet sich diesem Phänomen auf unterschiedlichen Ebenen. Auf welche Weise machten moderne Atomphysiker ‚fachfremdes‘ Wissen für ihre eigene Disziplin fruchtbar? Welche intellektuellen Netzwerke ermöglichten den Austausch der entsprechenden Wissensbestände und -techniken? Und wie beeinflusste die ‚philologische Schule‘ (Pollock), die die Quantenphysiker durchlaufen hatten, ihre späteren philosophischen Ausdeutungen quantenphysikalischer Phänomene? Dr. Dr. Magdalena Gronau forscht ab Dezember 2018 als Erwin-Schrödinger-Stipendiatin am Fachbereich Neuere Deutsche Literaturwissenschaft der Universität Erfurt sowie am Weimarer IKKM zur kulturhistorischen Verortung der quantentheoretischen Unschärfe. Sie befasst sich mit der Literatur- und Wissensgeschichte des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts, Wissenschafts- und Kulturkritik sowie der Gattungstheorie und -geschichte nicht-fiktionaler Prosa und dem Spannungsverhältnis von Literatur und Journalismus. Martin Gronau arbeitet derzeit im Rahmen eines Initialisierungsstipendiums der Universität Erfurt am Kooperationsprojekt „Die Philologie der Physiker“. Zu seinen Forschungsschwerpunkten zählen die Kulturanthropologie und politische Theorie der griechischen Antike, die Rezeptions- und Wissens- geschichte der Antike sowie die Geschichte der griechischen Historiographie und Katastrophen- theorien.
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Guest Lecture in the Series “WIssensfragen”
Invektivität und die Konstituierung von Öffentlichkeit in der Reformationszeit
Time
11/02/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum (Erdgeschoss), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Gerd Schwerhoff (TU Dresden)
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22. Treffen der Stiftung Humboldt-Universität
Zeit Raum Wissen in den antiken Kulturen
Time
11/02/2018
16:00
Location
Tieranatomisches Theater, Philippstraße 12/13, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
Stiftung Humboldt-Universität
Links
stiftung-humboldt@hu-berlin.de
Workshop
Aetius of Amida, Books on Medicine
Time
11/01/2018 - 11/02/2018
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
Serena Buzzi (University of Turin), Irene Calà (University of Munich), Philip van der Eijk (HU Berlin), Klaus-Dietrich Fischer (University of Mainz) Ricarda Gäbel (HU Berlin), Mario Lamagna (University of Naples), David Langslow (University of Manchester), Matteo Martelli (University of Bologna), Christine Salazar (HU Berlin)
Remarks
Aetius of Amida (6th century CE) is the creator of a large medical encyclopaedia in 16 books, which has survived in its entirety. Not all books exist in a printed edition, though. It is written in Greek and consists almost exclusively of excerpts taken from earlier Greek medical writers (such as Galen). His encyclopaedia is not only a locus of preservation for the fragments of otherwise lost works, but also a major testimony to the transfer of medical ideas in late antiquity. In Teilprojekt A03, we are studying Aetius’ methods of copying, abbreviation, compilation and reconfiguration of earlier medical material. We are also preparing critical editions and annotated translations of parts of his voluminous work. In this fourth dedicated workshop, we will turn to the ninth book of Aetius’ Libri medicinales which is devoted to diseases of the digestive tract. Given that we are preparing a critical edition, a translation and a commentary of book nine, we will use this workshop to discuss the progress so far and to present our findings to invited experts in the field. Please register with Ricarda Gäbel if you wish to participate.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Kultur und Zivilisation im Kalten Krieg – Zur Bedeutung der Naturwissenschaften in rowohlts deutscher enzyklopädie
Time
10/31/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Room 5028
Organizers
Prof. Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Michael Hagner (ETH Zurich)
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Methods Intensive Workshop
Oral History and the History of Scientific Practice: A Difficult Dialogue?
Time
10/25/2018 - 10/26/2018
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Lisa Onaga (MPIWG)
Lecturer
Indira Chowdhury (Centre for Public History, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology)
Remarks
Pre-registration is possible until September 30, 2018 by sending an email to event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de. Please note, in order to enable a working atmosphere we will allow a maximum of 15 participants. First come, first serve. The program and reading list will be sent to registered participants in advance of the workshop.
Links
event_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Series “Frankenstein / Eine Uni ein Buch”
Criminally Insane? The Difficult Birth of Brain Science
Time
10/25/2018
19:00
Location
Ulme 35 (Salon), Ulmenallee 35, 14050 Berlin
Organizers
Bard College Berlin
Lecturer
Rodolfo Garau (University of Venice), Hardy Schmitz (Vorsitzender des Vereins Interkulturanstalten Westend)
Remarks
Admission free, no prior registration necessary
Links
communications@berlin.bard.edu
Conference
Wissen en miniature – Theorie und Epistemologie der Anekdote
Time
10/25/2018 - 10/27/2018
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum (Erdgeschoss), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Remarks
Please register
Links
Talk
Oral History and the History of Scientific Practice in India: A Difficult Dialogue?
Time
10/24/2018
10:00 - 11:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Lisa Onaga (MPIWG)
Lecturer
Indira Chowdhury (Centre for Public History, Srishti Institute of Art, Design and Technology)
Remarks
This public lecture is open to all. No registration is needed.
Links
Institute’s Colloquium 2018-19
50 years of HPS. A Philosopher’s Perspective
Time
10/23/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Philip Kitcher (Columbia University in the City of New York)
Links
Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit - Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog
Post-digital Printing – Erhalt durch Produktion
Time
10/23/2018
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Potsdamer Straße 33, Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal
Organizers
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Lecturer
Erik Spiekermann
Links
Open Lecture Room - Talk
Lise Meitner in Berlin – 30 Jahre Forschungen zu physikalischen Grundlagen
Time
10/22/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
FU Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Hörsaal 2, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke (FU Berlin)
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Annette Vogt (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Networks: A Theory of Everything?
Time
10/22/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3012
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Silvio Dahmen (Porto Alegre/Berlin)
Remarks
In this talk I will discuss some possibilities of using complex networks in history, literature and compared mythology. The talk is based on my experience and that of my colleagues in trying to see how far we can go with these ideas and what the limitations are. Prof. Dr. Silvio Dahmen studied theoretical physics in Sao Carlos (Brazil) and Bonn. After a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University, he became an associate professor in Porto Alegre (Brazil) in 2002. He is currently visiting the TU Berlin’s history of science department thanks to a fellowship from the Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation. Recent publications include: (i) Community Detection in the Network of German Princes of 1225, in: Complex Networks VIII, pp. 193-200, Springer, 2017. (ii) Temporal Network Analysis of Literary Texts, in: Advances in Complex Systems 19 (2016), 1650005. (iii) Die Mathematik der Epen: Die Netze der Helden und Täter. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, 04.11.2015.
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
The Use of Instruments and Machines in Early Hydrodynamics (1687–1738)
Time
10/15/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3008
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Jip van Besouw (Brussels)
Remarks
Understanding the motion of water was a pressing social problem around 1700. Considerable capital, both intellectual and financial, was spent in trying to deflate floodings and improve channeling and power extraction from water wheels. This talk addresses how contemporary philosophers and mathematicians tried to deal with problems relating to water. In particular, my focus will be on the conceptualization and quantification of hydrodynamics through the use of instruments and machines. Starting with book II of Newton's Principia, there were increased attempts to extend mechanical theory to encompass fluid motions. Part of these attempts was the construction of instruments and machines to simulate, visualize, and quantify the various phenomena and concepts involved. I will argue that early hydrodynamics was in several ways a paradigmatic case of 'physical mathematics' as it developed throughout the eighteenth century. Dr. Jip van Besouw is a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, where he received his PhD in 2017, and a Fellow of the Descartes Centre at Utrecht University. His research centres on the development of experimental and mathematical practices in seventeenth and eighteenth-century natural philosophy, as well as on the methodological and epistemological discourses of that time.
Links
Open Lecture Room - Talk
Lise Meitners Platz in der Physikgeschichte
Time
10/15/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
FU Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, Hörsaal 2, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Heinz-Eberhard Mahnke (FU Berlin)
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Annette Vogt (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin)
Links
Talk and Discussion
The Polymath in an Age of Specialization
Time
10/12/2018
19:00
Location
ICI Berlin, Christinenstraße 18/19, House 8, 10119 Berlin
Organizers
Die Junge Akademie in collaboration with ICI Berlin and Wagenbach Verlag
Lecturer
Peter Burke (University of Cambridge), Fabian Krämer (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München), Christoph Lundgreen (Technische Universität Dresden)
Remarks
In a cultural history of polymaths from the Renaissance to the present (from Leonardo da Vinci to Umberto Eco), Peter Burke examines the figure of the polymath and its survival in an age of specialization. At first glance, it may seem counterintuitive to assume that the polymath has managed to overcome the disciplinary borders which have been drawn since the mid-nineteenth century and which structurally manifest themselves in the division of universities into faculties, departments, and institutes. Yet, as Peter Burke will show, the species of the polymath has continued to exist; and it still does today – despite an undeniable decline. The talk is followed by a discussion with members of Die Junge Akademie, amongst them Fabian Krämer and Christoph Lundgreen, who critically examine the role of disciplinary borders in their work within their research group ‘Two Cultures of Sciences’. The event, like all events at the ICI Berlin, is open to the public, free of charge. The audience is presumed to consent to a possible recording on the part of the ICI Berlin. If you would like to attend the event yet might require assistance, please contact Event Management.
Links
Talk
The Principle of Priority in Principle and in Practice: An Early 20th Century Debate over the Stabilization of ‘Old’ Genus Names in Zoology and Botany
Time
10/11/2018
14:00
Location
Hörsaal 12, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Lecturer
Dr. Joeri Witteveen (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Links
Talk
Wege und Wandel des Mediums Papier: Technologie und Erhaltung
Time
10/05/2018
17:00 - 18:00
Location
Tieranatomisches Theater der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Campus Nord, Philippstr. 13, Haus 3, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
Johanna Lessing (Das Temporäre Objektlabor)
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Ruth Keller (HTW Berlin)
Links
sebastian.doering@hu-berlin.de
Lecture
Vergangenheitspolitik an der TU Berlin im Spiegel akademischer Wiedergutmachungsverfahren
Time
10/01/2018
15:00 - 16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Raum H 2051
Lecturer
Marianne Horstkemper-Tillmann
Lecture
Universitäre Einrichtungen im NS-besetzen Polen als Ressource für die deutsche Forschungspolitik
Time
10/01/2018
14:00 - 15:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Raum H 2051
Lecturer
Angelika Kaminska
Premodern Conversation Colloquium
Optical Diagrams as Paper Tools: Giambattista Della Porta and the Beginnings of Modern Optics
Time
09/27/2018
16:00 - 17:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Maria Avxentevskaya and Katja Krause
Lecturer
Arianna Borrelli (Leuphana Universität Lüneburg)
Remarks
Premodern Conversations is a monthly seminar on pre-modern and early-modern topics, aiming to offer researchers informal space to discuss their work-in-progress.
Links
mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Relating Pasts & Presents—History of Science & Social Science
Time
09/26/2018 - 09/28/2018
Location
Harnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, Lise-Meitner-Saal
Organizers
Hansjakob Ziemer and Ohad Parnes (both MPIWG), Louise Braddock (ISRF)
Remarks
The ISRF Workshop is the occasion for the ISRF’s fellows to report on their work, and a wide range of topics and approaches is presented to a multidisciplinary audience. Each year the ISRF collaborates with an academic institution as partner in order to create opportunities for discovery and dialogue between the disciplines. The ISRF Annual Workshop, title ‘Relating Pasts and Presents: History of Science and Social Science’, will be held on 26-28 September 2018 in Berlin in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
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Institute’s Colloquium 2018-19
Chinese Literati and Intellectuals on Mantic Arts: A Philosophy of Divination?
Time
09/25/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Michael Lackner (Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg)
Links
Max Planck Day
Nachwuchswissenschaftler treffen auf Nachwuchsjournalisten
Time
09/14/2018
09:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG in cooperation with the MPI for Human Development, the MPI for Molecular Genetics, and the Electronic Media School
Remarks
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, in cooperation with the MPI for Human Development and MPI for Molecular Genetics, has established contact with the Electronic Media School (ems) in Potsdam to host a one-day event giving the opportunity for researchers and journalists to collaborate. The event aims to improve exchange between early journalists and early researchers. Junior researchers will give three short lectures, to be discussed from a journalistic perspective. Topics are to include “Heisenberg and the Final Theory Program,” “RNA Polymerases: Translator of the Human Genome,” and “Transcriptome Sequencing of Individual Cells.”
Links
Max Planck Day
Science Goes Stage! Science Slam
Time
09/14/2018
19:30 - 22:00
Location
Festsaal Kreuzberg, Am Flutgraben 2, 12435 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG
Lecturer
Teresa Hollerbach (MPIWG)
Remarks
As part of the Max-Planck-Tag on September 14, eight Max Planck PhD students venture onto the stage to inspire you with their questions: Since when have we been using garbage cans? When did people start to measure and weigh their bodies? Join us for further discussion and meet the researchers in the Festsaal Kreuzberg beer garden after the event! This event takes place in German and English, in cooperation with www.scienceslam.de
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Workshop
Things in Medieval Literature, Society, and the Visual Arts
Time
09/10/2018 - 09/11/2018
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Links
Digital-Humanities-Kolloquium
Von Knoten und Kanten. Netzwerkforschung in Archäologie und Geschichtswissenschaften
Time
09/07/2018
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Konferenzraum 1, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW)
Lecturer
Aline Deicke (Mainz)
Links
Workshop
Politics of Natural History, or: How to Decolonize the Natural History Museum?
Time
09/06/2018 - 09/07/2018
Location
Technische Universität Berlin, Main Building, Conference Room 3006 (3rd floor, accessible via elevator), Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin
Organizers
Museum für Naturkunde, HU, TU
Remarks
Closing date for registration is August 30, 2018. Please register at contact below.
Links
Panel Discussion
Im Gespräch „Globale Sammlung(s)Geschichten: Postkoloniale Geschichte, Politik und Literatur“
Time
09/06/2018
18:00 - 19:30
Location
Bode-Museum, Am Kupfergraben, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Lecturer
Patrice Nganang and Jonathan Fine (Ethnologisches Museum Berlin)
Links
Seminar
Encounters in Borderlands: Intersections of Life and Technology at Frankfurt Airport
Time
09/04/2018
14:00 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
MPIWG, Department III, Lisa Onaga
Lecturer
Susanne Bauer (University of Oslo), Nils Güttler (ETH Zurich), Martina Schlünder (MPIWG)
Remarks
Focusing on a global hub of aviation, Frankfurt airport, this paper examines the ways in which life, technology, and ecology intersect in airport operation. In order to understand how airport practices constantly negotiate the borders with local environments or even produce new ones, we draw on Gloria Anzaldúa’s concept of “borderlands.” Extending it from human to non-human inhabitants and passengers of airports opens up for novel possibilities to apprehend the affective dimension in the life-technology intersections at airports. In this sense, the airport is a site of multiple borderlands, producing intersections that include material and imaginative, sometimes violent, boundary drawing. We understand these intersections as historical and contemporary configurations that highlight the production of different hybrid ecologies. Susanne Bauer (University of Oslo), Nils Güttler (ETH Zurich) and Martina Schlünder (MPIWG/University of Oslo) are historians of science and STS scholars, working collectively on the environmental history of Frankfurt airport.
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Workshop
Constructing Responsible Research: Collaborations between STS and History of Technology
Time
09/03/2018 - 09/04/2018
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Department III “Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge”
Lecturer
Wiebe Bijker (Maastricht University)
Remarks
Registration is open until August 25, 2018 by writing an email to Chaonan Zhang. Early registration is encouraged because of limited spaces. First come, first serve.
Links
schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Public Lecture
Studies of Science & Technology: Torn Between Scholarship and Politics?
Time
09/03/2018
16:30 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
MPIWG, Department III
Lecturer
Wiebe Bijker (Norwegian University of Science and Technology and Maastricht University)
Remarks
Bijker will use a small research project on the practices of rice farming and the history of agriculture in India to discuss more general questions about the societal relevance of historical and social studies of science and technology and the ensuing tensions between scholarship and societal engagement.
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Premodern Conversation Colloquium
Antoni van Leeuwenhoek and His Images and Draughtsmen
Time
08/29/2018
16:00 - 17:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Maria Avxentevskaya and Katja Krause
Lecturer
Sietske Fransen (MPIWG)
Remarks
Premodern Conversations is a monthly seminar on pre-modern and early-modern topics, aiming to offer researchers informal space to discuss their work-in-progress.
Links
mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
De Materia Medica - Herbals and botanical classification from ancient and early modern times in cross-cultural perspective
Time
07/31/2018
10:00 - 18:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Topoi: Anne Grons, Robert Kade, Anke Lüdeling, Tonio Sebastian Richter
Remarks
Starting with the first scriptural cultures, methods for classifying and describing (medical) plants has been developed, by means of which the collected knowledge could be handed down diachronically across language and cultural borders. The topic of this workshop is the study of the related text genres of herbals, thereby uniting the outcome of projects in Berlin dedicated to ancient, medieval, and early modern botany. In collaboration with international colleagues, we aim to reveal the similarities, differences, and relationships between the various corpora, beginning with the earliest botanical treatises in Cuneiform and Egyptian script, via the scientific peak of Graeco-Roman scholars and the Middle-Ages up until the later traditions in German language of the Early Modern Period.
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Workshop
Model and Mathematics
Time
07/26/2018
10:00 - 17:00
Location
HU Berlin, Sophienstraße 22a, 2. Courtyard, second floor, 10178 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster “Bild Wissen Gestaltung”
Remarks
Attendance is free and interested participants are welcome! Please register till the 23rd of July (contact below). Program: 10:00-10:30 / Michael Friedman and Karin Krauthausen: Model and Mathematics – Introduction 10:30-11:30 / Arianna Borelli: The Tension between Modeling and Mathematics in Early Particle Physics 11:30-12:30 / Axel Gelfert: Thinking With Formalisms: Mathematical Notation and Epistemic Actions Lunch 14:00-15:00 / Tilman Sauer: (De)Visualizing Parallel Transport 15:00-16:00 / Reinhard Ulrich Wendler: Marmousi-Models and the Limits of Scale Coffee Break 16:30-17:30 / Moritz Epple: ‘Analogies’, ‘Interpretations’, ‘Images’, ‘Systems’, and ‘Models’: On the History of Abstract Representation in the Mathematical Sciences since the Nineteenth Century
Links
bwg.modelandmathematics@hu-berlin.de
Workshop
Causality or Contingency: What Keeps Culture Going?
Time
07/24/2018 - 07/25/2018
Location
Freie Universitaet Berlin, Seminarzentrum, Room L115, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Remarks
The two-day workshop is open to the academic public. Please register by July 20 (cf. contact below).
Links
Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History
“The Engineer is a Ruler of Men”: Masculinity and the exchange of engineering expertise between British India and the Australian colonies
Time
07/20/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Friedrichstr., elevator to the 5th floor, room 4026
Organizers
European Society for Environmental History
Lecturer
Ruth Morgan (Melbourne, Australien/München)
Links
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
The Corpus of the Arabic Science of Weights: Textual Tradition, Theoretical Scope and Significance in the History of Mechanics
Time
07/18/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3013
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Mohammed Abattouy (Rabat/Manchester)
Remarks
The lecture will present a general overview on the tradition of theoretical mechanics in Arabic classical science (9th-16th century), as I reconstructed it from unpublished manuscripts and analysed it as a transformation of mechanics, in which emerged the science of weights (ʿilm al-athqāl) as an independent branch, separated from the science of machines (‘ilm al- ḥiyal). The lecture will be devoted to three main concerns: (1) The description of the textual tradition of the Arabic corpus of the science of weights - a tradition of scientific and technical treatises reconstituted from manuscripts, most of which were never published before. (2) The interpretation of the Arabic corpus of the science of weights as a transformation in the history of mechanics. Such a transformation was represented by the creation of an independent theoretical branch that evolved from ancient contributions and nourished the debate in physics until the advent of modern science. (3) In this light, a new interpretation of the history of medieval mechanics establishes tight links between the Arabic science of weights and the Latin scientia de ponderibus that emerged in the works of Jordanus (13th century). Hence, beyond cultural and linguistic boundaries, it becomes possible to write a unified and intercultural history of pre-modern mechanics. Prof. Dr. Mohammed Abattouy is a professor of history and philosophy of science at the Mohammed Vth University in Rabat, Morocco. He specialized in the history of Arabic mechanics, in particular the manuscripts of the science of weights ('ilm al-athqal) which he reconstructed in full; currently he prepares this corpus for publication, with an English translation and commentary.
Open Seminar
Invariance Essentialism
Time
07/16/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
MPIWG, Max Planck Research Group (Final Theory Program)
Lecturer
David Schroeren (Princeton University)
Remarks
One of the striking features of fundamental physics is that certain important properties of elementary particle systems are defined as invariants under specific groups of symmetry transformations of these systems. For example, rest mass and relativistic spin are said to be defined as invariants under the Poincaré group of relativistic boosts, translations, and rotations. The goal of this paper is to provide a metaphysically perspicuous account of this sort of definition, and to evaluate the extent to which the resulting definitions satisfy broadly structuralist desiderata. No registration necessary.
Links
officeblum@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Histories of Biomedical Knowledge
“Mutual Incomprehension and Red Herrings“: Strategies of Disciplinary Competition in the Sociobiology Debate
Time
07/13/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5061, 10099 Berlin
Organizers
Lara Keuck (Research Group “Learning from Alzheimer's Disease. A History of Biomedical Models of Mental Illness”, HU Berlin)
Lecturer
Cora Stuhrmann (LMU München)
Remarks
Much has been written about how Sociobiology pitted two camps of biologists against each other on moral, political and scientific grounds in 1975: The Sociobiologists, led by E.O. Wilson, hoped to build a new discipline and encountered vocal critics, many like Richard Lewontin and Stephen Jay Gould with a Marxist background, attacking them as genetic determinists and naive reductionists. This conflict within biology, as well as the accompanying media coverage, has drawn most of the attention and the controversy surrounding Sociobiology is still commonly seen as a mere expression of the political tensions of the 1970s. However, this exchange is only the beginning of a much broader academic debate that continued into the 1980s and even 1990s. With passages such as „It may not be too much to say that sociology and the other social sciences, as well as the humanities, are the last branches of biology, waiting to be included in the Modern Synthesis“, Wilson’s book questioned the validity of existing disciplinary boundaries. Therefore, the controversy should not only be seen as the result of a political conflict, but also as a competition between disciplines about where the borders of their territories are to be drawn. It is almost impossible to keep track of the flurry of publications regarding Sociobiology: the edited volumes, conference proceedings, monographs, and articles fill tens of thousands of pages. Many of them not only debate the possibilities and limitations of evolutionary explanations for human social behavior, but they also contain what Thomas Gieryn termed boundary-work: They aim to convince the reader of the validity and legitimacy of a given discipline or to discredit the approaches and results generated by a disciplinary competitor. By tracing these publications and their reception in reviews, we can ascertain different strategies of disciplinary competition. We will be glad to receive your registration at: seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de.
Links
seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de
Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History
Colonisation in the German-Polish borderlands, 1880s-1920s: work-in-progress between environment, landscape, agrarian, and social history
Time
07/13/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Friedrichstr., elevator to the 5th floor, room 4026
Organizers
European Society for Environmental History
Lecturer
Roii Ball (Los Angeles, USA)
Links
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
The Sciences are Leaving the Building: Academic Geo-graphies and the Prehistory of the "Two Cultures"
Time
07/12/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
HU Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, Raum 1.405
Organizers
Anke te Heesen, Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Fabian Krämer
Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Scripts, Languages, Sciences in Islamicate Societies
Time
07/10/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Sonja Brentjes – Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
Links
Talk
Aristoteles’ Naturforschung
Time
07/10/2018
10:15 - 11:45
Location
Rostlaube der Freien Universität Berlin, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin, Room: J 27/14
Organizers
Freie Universität Berlin, Greek and Latin Languages and Literatures
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Jochen Althoff (Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz)
Links
Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History
Konsens – Dissens – Krise: Das Scheitern des ökologischen Verwertungsregimes und der partizipatorischen Diktatur in der DDR
Time
07/06/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Friedrichstr., elevator to the 5th floor, room 4026
Organizers
European Society for Environmental History
Lecturer
Christian Möller (Düsseldorf)
Links
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Lecture Series in the History of Knowledge
Machine Translation Before and After the Iron Curtain
Time
07/05/2018
14:00 - 18:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Room 2249a „Marmorsaal“
Organizers
Maria Avxentevskaya, Minakshi Menon, Robert Middeke-Conlin, Ion Mihailescu, and Dror Weil
Lecturer
Michael Gordin (Princeton University)
Remarks
The day after a masterclass will take place. If you are interested in taking part, please write an email at the contact below.
Links
translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Pre-War Kulturwissenschaft in Cold War Berlin
Time
07/03/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Elizabeth Sears, University of Michigan, USA
Links
Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Script and Hierarchy in Non-normative Islamic Traditions: The Example of the Alevis
Time
07/03/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
David Shankland – Royal Anthropological Institute, United Kingdom
Links
Conference
Wissensoikonomien - Order and Transgression in Premodern Cultures
Time
06/28/2018 - 06/30/2018
13:30 - 16:30
Location
Humboldt-Box, Schlossplatz 5, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
Organizers
Sonderforschungsbereichs 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“, Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the Stiftung Humboldt Forum im Berliner Schloss
Remarks
6th Annual Conference of the Collaborative Research Center 980 “Episteme in Motion. Transfer of Knowledge from the Ancient World to the Early Modern Period” Knowledge is constituted and undergoes change in relation to the processes and networks in which it circulates, or to put it differently: in the framework of an oikos and its diverse contexts. At its sixth annual conference, the Collaborative Research Center “Episteme in Motion” extends an invitation to discuss the idea of an oikos of knowledge in greater depth. The ancient Greek concept of the oikos, both as an abstract notion and as a tangible reality, will serve as a heuristic category, providing impulses that open up new lines of inquiry. The conference will offer a forum for a wide and interdisciplinary spectrum of investigative approaches. Using the concept of Wissensoikonomien as our point of departure, we will engage with related theoretical models and alternative methodologies, entering into productive dialogue with models from the fields of the social sciences and computer-based network analysis. Free admission. Please register for the conference by sending an email to: info@sfb-episteme.de
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Der Wissenschaftsorganisator. Organisations- und Koordinationsprozesse am Beispiel der Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, 1923-1934
Time
06/27/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Tommy Stöckel
Summer Colloquium Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
TBA
Time
06/26/2018
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Lecturer
Viktoria Tkaczyk
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Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Coptic Pharmacological Texts - Cryptographic Drug Names in P. Méd. Copt. IFAO
Time
06/26/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Anne Grons – Freie Universität Berlin
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Scholars’ Forum
Rhetorik, Gender & Institution: Perspektiven auf Diversität an der Universität
Time
06/25/2018
10:00 - 18:00
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
“Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
among others Prof. Dr. Anita Traninger (FU Berlin)
Remarks
Please register by June 17, 2018.
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Lecture
Like Rock or River? On the Nature of Knowledge. From Pythagoras and Heraclitus to Schroedinger and Rilke
Time
06/25/2018
18:15
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, "Rostlaube", Room KL 32/202, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
FU Berlin, Joachim Küpper & Susanne Zepp
Lecturer
David Nierenberg (The University of Chicago)
Histories of Biomedical Knowledge
CANCELED: Zwischen 'Seuchenstall' und 'Inselflur': Praktiken und Räume der Isolation im Versuchstiermanagement des Seruminstituts Insel Riems (Master‘s thesis: selected chapter)
Time
06/22/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5061, 10099 Berlin
Organizers
Lara Keuck (Research Group “Learning from Alzheimer's Disease. A History of Biomedical Models of Mental Illness”, HU Berlin)
Lecturer
Christof Sendhardt, (Technische Universität Berlin)
Remarks
! Diese Seminarsitzung muss leider abgesagt werden! In den vergangenen Jahren sind Tiere verstärkt in den Fokus wissenschaftshistorischer Arbeiten geraten. In Studien zur Experimentalwissenschaft wurden insbesondere Versuchstiere in ihrer Funktion als wissensgenerierende Modelle in den Blick genommen. Jüngere Untersuchungen haben darauf hingewiesen, wie diese epistemologische Perspektive, Tiere als Repräsentanten von Wissen zu konzeptualisieren, die naheliegende Frage vernachlässigt, wie Tiere als widerstrebende, materielle Lebewesen zu Versuchstieren in kontrollierten Experimentalumgebungen werden. In meiner Masterarbeit nähere ich mich dieser Frage mit einer Fallstudie zu Tieren in der Serumforschung und Infektionsmedizin. Am Beispiel der staatlichen Produktions- und Forschungseinrichtung auf der Ostseeinsel Riems, die zu Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts zur Herstellung eines Serums gegen die Maul- und Klauenseuche gegründet wurde, soll diese Untersuchung aufzeigen, welche Rolle die hygienische Separierung und Isolation der „Serumtiere“ spielte, um die Rinder, Schweine und Meerschweinchen zu Versuchs- und Produktionstieren zu machen. Besonderes Augenmerk liegt auf Ställen als zentrale Orte biomedizinischer Forschung. Ställe waren mit spezifischen Funktionen verknüpft: der Entnahme von Blut, der Infektion, der Durchführung von Versuchen oder der Haltung der Tiere. Die Koordination der Tiere zwischen verschiedenen Räumen gründete auf einem System von Aufschreibeverfahren. Mit Serumbüchern und Tierregistern konnte der Verkehr der Tiere erfasst, überwacht und gesteuert werden. Diese paper technologies lassen sich als Teil von hygienischen Praktiken verstehen, mit denen Isolation zwischen Tiergruppen erzeugt, verstärkt oder abgeschwächt werden konnte. Das Management der Isolation besaß eine wichtige epistemische Funktion. Verfahren der Serumevaluation und Infektionsversuche unterwarfen die Körper der Tiere einer lückenlosen Dokumentation ihrer Infektionsgeschichte: Der Erfolg der Versuche hing davon ab, ob die Tiere bereits mit dem Erreger der Maul- und Klauenseuche in Kontakt gewesen und entsprechend immun waren. Praktiken und Räume der Isolation zielten auf die Kontrolle von Infektion auf der gesamten Insel. Ich argumentiere, dass isolierte Räume, hygienische Praktiken und Vorstellungen von Reinheit den Rahmen bildeten, vor dem die Tiere des Riemser Seruminstituts zu Versuchs- und Produktionstieren wurden. (selected chapter from Master’s thesis) We will be glad to receive your registration at: seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de.
Links
seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de
Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History
Popularization of Science and the Anti-Nuclear Power Movement in West and East Germany
Time
06/22/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Friedrichstr., elevator to the 5th floor, room 4026
Organizers
European Society for Environmental History
Lecturer
Dolores Augustine (New York, USA)
Links
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Conference
The Concept of Species and its Normative Dimension
Time
06/21/2018 - 06/22/2018
Location
ZfL, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, 4th floor, Trajekte Seminar Room
Organizers
Martin Hähnel, Roland Kipke (Katholische Universität Eichstätt-Ingolstadt), Georg Toepfer (ZfL)
Remarks
The conference is part of the project The Manipulated Embryo. Potentiality and Species Membership revisited, funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and located at the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. The concept of species is not only important for biology but also for other areas of research. Above all, it seems to play a crucial role for our self-understanding as humans, insofar as we understand ourselves as members of the species Homo sapiens. Therefore, this biological classification is of practical relevance for ethical issues. Especially at the beginning of human life the questions under discussion whether or not embryos are human beings and what moral relevance the species membership of embryos has. These questions concerning the meaning and relevance of the species membership become still more urgent with the growing possibilities of modern biotechnology to cross species boundaries. The aim of the conference is to place this bioethical species argumentation in a larger philosophical context linking it with insights of ontology, philosophy of biology and also of legal theory: How can we understand the concept of species? What understanding of species stands behind the bioethical arguments that rely on species membership? Which understanding can and should be taken as a conceptional basis? What is the relation between being a human being and being a member of Homo sapiens? What is the role of humanity and/or species-membership in (bio-)ethical and legal thinking, and what should it be? How to deal ethically, if the species boundaries are crossed by creating human-animal hybrids? These are some of the questions that are to be discussed at the interdisciplinary conference.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
The Great Disruption: Biologists, Revolutions, and the Values of Science ca. 1848
Time
06/20/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Lynn Nyhart
Lecture Series in the History of Knowledge
Knowledge in Translation: Euro-American Missions in Late Imperial China
Time
06/20/2018
14:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge
Lecturer
Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg University)
Remarks
The day after a masterclass will take place. If you are interested in taking part, please write an email at the contact below.
Links
translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Media History and Its Objects
Time
06/19/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Lisa Gitelman, New York University, USA
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Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Scripts and Codes in Coptic Alchemical Papyri
Time
06/19/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Tonio Sebastian Richter – Freie Universität Berlin
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Exhibition
Architectures of Science. The Universities of Berlin in European Perspective
Time
06/19/2018 - 07/30/2018
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Juristische Fakultät, Eingangshalle, Bebelplatz 2, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
European Cultural Heritage Summit „Sharing Heritage – Sharing Values“
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Angewandtes Pflanzenstudium: Die kunstgewerbliche Lehrsammlung Moritz Meurers (1839–1916)
Time
06/18/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Angela Nikolai (Berlin)
Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History
Fighting Nature in Swakopmund, German Colonial Southwest Africa (1884–1915)
Time
06/15/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Friedrichstr., elevator to the 5th floor, room 4026
Organizers
European Society for Environmental History
Lecturer
Martin Kalb (Bridgewater, USA)
Links
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Lecture
Do Epigenetics Matter? A Historian's Issues with Memories, Narratives and Intergenerational Transfer
Time
06/15/2018
09:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Big Conference Room
Organizers
Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, led by Prof. Ute Frevert
Lecturer
Dorothee Wierling (Forschungsstelle für Zeitgeschichte, Hamburg)
Remarks
This lecture is a public keynote for the conference “Epigenetics: Innovation of Memory? Life Science Paradigms as Challenge and Opportunity for Historians”
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Workshop
Observing the Everyday: Journalistic Practices and Knowledge Production in the Modern Era
Time
06/14/2018 - 06/15/2018
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 215
Organizers
Hansjakob Ziemer (MPIWG Berlin) in cooperation with the German Historical Institute, Washington D.C.
Remarks
This is an author’s workshop; participation is possible only after contacting Hansjakob Ziemer.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Kataloge des Lebens – Globale Artenregister seit 1750 und der Traum von der Vollständigkeit
Time
06/13/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Michael Ohl
Lecture
In Place of Healing: The Dangers of Therapeutic Models of Remembrance
Time
06/13/2018
18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Big Conference Room
Organizers
Center for the History of Emotions at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development, led by Prof. Ute Frevert
Lecturer
Jay Winter (Yale University)
Remarks
This lecture is a public keynote for the conference “Epigenetics: Innovation of Memory? Life Science Paradigms as Challenge and Opportunity for Historians”
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Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Writing Sumerian in Chaldean Babylonia: Reflections on the Linguistic Geography of Babylonia in the Early First Millennium BC
Time
06/12/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Christian Hess – Universität Leipzig
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
The Epistemological Transformation of Mechanics in the 19th Century
Time
06/11/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Dr. María de Paz (Sevilla)
Remarks
At the end of 18th century, the discipline of mechanics was considered a part of mathematics, usually of what was commonly known as ‘mixed mathematics’, and this included many disciplines from optics and astronomy to artillery and fortification. This status changed along the 19th century, a period in which mechanics was a part of pure mathematics, of applied mathematics and, by the end of the century, of mathematical physics or even of theoretical physics, depending on the accounts. This implies the transformation of mechanics from a mathematical discipline into a physical one, or at least into a more empirically-based discipline. The aim of this talk is to understand this transformation from the point of view of the changing status of its fundamental principles and to show how this change is related to the groundbreaking changes in mathematics and in physics that took place along the century. Dr. María de Paz is Assistant Professor at the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of Seville (Spain). She obtained her PhD in Philosophy at the Complutense University of Madrid (Spain) and in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Lisbon (Portugal) in 2014. She has been a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Mathematics of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ, Brazil) and at the University of Seville. Among her publications are the co-edited volume (with Robert DiSalle) Poincaré, Philosopher of Science. Problems and Perspectives, and the single authored book Henri Poincaré: From Conventionalism to Gravitation [in Spanish]. Her current research is focused on the epistemological consequences of the interactions between mathematics and physics in 19th century mechanics.
Akademietag
Geisteswissenschaften 3.0 Vergegenwärtigung des kulturellen Welterbes
Time
06/11/2018
12:30 - 21:00
Location
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Links
schaefgen@akademienunion-berlin.de
Open House Day
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften
Time
06/09/2018
17:00 - 24:00
Location
at several spots in Berlin
Links
Talk
Waging a World War on Rats
Time
06/08/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin. Room 265
Organizers
MPIWG, Department III
Lecturer
Peter Soppelsa (University of Oklahoma)
Remarks
Peter Soppelsa holds a Ph.D. in history from the University of Michigan and is currently an assistant professor in the Department of the History of Science and managing editor of Technology and Culture at the University of Oklahoma. His research sits at the intersection of the history of technology with urban and environmental studies. He has written for journals in the history of technology, environmental studies, French studies, and mobility studies. His first book project, The Fragility of Urban Modernity, is under review at the University of Minnesota Press. It examines conflicts over infrastructure in Paris after Haussmann as responses to the complexity and fragility of networked infrastructures that are hybrid, both sociotechnical and envirotechnical. It tracks cultural and political conflicts over urban infrastructures and the construction of urban modernity. His new book project blends animal studies, environmental studies, and the history of public health to examine the global “War on Rats” during the third bubonic plague pandemic of 1894-1959.
Links
mailto:tnovick@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Verhaltenswissen
Time
06/07/2018 - 06/08/2018
Location
HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Senatssaal and ZfL, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
Sophia Gräfe (HU) and Georg Toepfer (ZfL)
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
"Der Atem der Roboter im Nacken". Mensch- und Maschinenfantasien des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure in Schrift und Bild 1950-1970
Time
06/06/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Carolin Becklas
Workshop Series “Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog”
Die Disziplinierung des Fremden. Chinesische Materialien in den Regalen und Ordnungssystemen der Berliner Staatsbibliothek
Time
06/05/2018
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz Haus Unter den Linden Entrance: Dorotheenstraße 27 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
Lecturer
Dr. Cordula Gumbrecht und Dr. Martina Siebert, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Ostasienabteilung
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Anthropocene Lectures
Inventing the Holocene Norm: from Victorian Geology to the Anthropocene
Time
06/05/2018
17:00 - 20:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, Berlin 14195, Germany, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
MPIWG in cooperation with the HKW
Lecturer
Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (University of Chicago)
Remarks
The Anthropocene—the geological epoch of humanity—has established itself as a key concept within a wider scientific and social discourse. In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes to the basic conditions for life on our planet, new potentials for human agency upon the Earth are to be explored. In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of prominent speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate are being invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures take place at the MPIWG, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.
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Summer Colloquium Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Tuning the US. Musical Practices, Technology and the Definition of a National Identity (1859–1939)
Time
06/05/2018
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Lecturer
Fanny Gribenski
Links
Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Anfänge und Funktion der luwischen Hieroglyphenschrift
Time
06/05/2018
18:00 - 18:15
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Jörg Klinger – Freie Universität Berlin
Links
Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Logogramme im Hethitischen
Time
06/05/2018
18:15 - 18:30
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Joost Hazenbos – Freie Universität Berlin
Links
Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Die hurritischen Emar-Texte: Ein Korpus, zwei Syllabare und auffällige Zeichenvarianten
Time
06/05/2018
18:30 - 18:45
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Sebastian Fischer – Freie Universität Berlin
Links
Lecture Series in the History of Knowledge
From Clay to Modern Editions: the Metamorphoses of Numbers
Time
06/04/2018
14:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge
Lecturer
Christine Proust (CNRS, Paris)
Remarks
The day after a masterclass will take place. If you are interested in taking part, please write an email at the contact below.
Links
translation_masterclass@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture
Fixation: Freud’s Queer Counter-Concept
Time
06/04/2018
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin
Organizers
Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI)
Lecturer
Elissa Marder (Emory University)
Remarks
The talk will examine how ‘fixation’ is associated with some of the most inventive and enigmatic moments in Freud’s accounts of the body, sexuality, and time. In one of Freud’s earliest clinical publications from the late 1880s, the term ‘fixation’ marks the moment where psychoanalysis veers off from psychiatry. Confronted with the paradoxical phenomenon of a woman whose speech is subjected to the mysterious force of what he calls ‘counter-will’, Freud begins to lay down the basic building blocks out of which he will go on to construct the architecture of psychic organization. When this early case is re-read in light of some of Freud’s later concerns, it reveals that this originary scene of ‘fixation’ opens up the possibility of discerning a powerful counter-current to some of Freud’s most heteronormative views about gender and sexuality and provides the basis for a thinking about how fixation obliges Freud to grapple with the ways that the queer temporal structures associated with female sexuality challenge a metapsychology grounded in the Oedipal complex.
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Anthropocene Lectures
Nature and the Writing of History
Time
06/01/2018
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, Berlin 14195, Germany, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
MPIWG in cooperation with the HKW
Lecturer
Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College)
Remarks
The Anthropocene—the geological epoch of humanity—has established itself as a key concept within a wider scientific and social discourse. In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes to the basic conditions for life on our planet, new potentials for human agency upon the Earth are to be explored. In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of prominent speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate are being invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures take place at the MPIWG, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Ein Panopticon der Wirtschaft? Ökonomische Prognostik in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Time
05/30/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Laetitia Lenel
Lecture Series in the History of Knowledge
The Intrinsic Place. Space as Measurable Entity in Early Modern Art and Science.
Time
05/30/2018
10:30 - 13:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge
Lecturer
Filippo Camerota (Museo Galileo, Florence)
Remarks
Following the lecture and the panel discussion, a masterclass will take place. If you are interested in taking part, please write an email at the contact below.
Links
Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Demarcating Science in Heavenly Writing
Time
05/29/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Francesca Rochberg – University of California, Berkeley, USA
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Gutachten, Experimentalunterricht und Aufklärung: Die Etablierung der Naturforschung innerhalb der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Time
05/28/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Susan Splinter (München)
Anthropocene Lectures
Is the Anthropocene Soluble in Ontological Pluralism?
Time
05/25/2018
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Harnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG in cooperation with the HKW
Lecturer
Philippe Descola (Collège de France)
Remarks
The Anthropocene—the geological epoch of humanity—has established itself as a key concept within a wider scientific and social discourse. In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes to the basic conditions for life on our planet, new potentials for human agency upon the Earth are to be explored. In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of prominent speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate are being invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures take place at the MPIWG, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
All the Fair’s a Spectacle. Picturing the World, Entertaining Fairgoers (1893-1900)
Time
05/23/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Allison Huetz
Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Information, Knowledge, and the Copernican Delay
Time
05/22/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Clifford Siskin (News York University)
Links
Conference
What is an Academy? Early Modern Learned Societies in a Transcultural Perspective
Time
05/22/2018 - 05/23/2018
09:00 - 18:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
The conference sets out to challenge certain broadly accepted assumptions about early modern academies. We propose to revisit the fundamental question of what qualifies an institution of learning as an ‘academy’ in the early modern period. What were the structures, functions, and especially the forms of communication specific to academies and how did they differ from or converge with comparable institutions of learned sociability such as humanist sodalitates, private learned circles, Masonic lodges, salons, or tertulias? What genealogies and models informed the idea of the institution, and how did they relate to the actual practices of a given academy? What was the relationship between academies and the universities and what role did the oft-neglected transfer of knowledge between these institutions play? And how did the Enlightenment affect this history? Please register
Links
kkaltenbach@zedat.fu-berlin.de
Public Evening Lecture
„Einfach die Besten zuwählen?” Gedanken zu den Akademien der Wissenschaften im 21. Jahrhundert
Time
05/22/2018
18:30 - 19:30
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Episteme in Bewegung / BBAW
Remarks
Welchen Wert haben eigentlich Akademien als „geistiger Tauschplatz” der Besten, wenn inzwischen fast alle Wissenschaftsinstitutionen für sich Exzellenz reklamieren? Sollte klassischen Modellen einer geistigen Elite und ihren institutionellen Selbstdurchsetzungsstrategien nicht eher mit Skepsis begegnet werden? Wer möchte schon eine Runde alter Männer finanzieren, die sich in regelmäßigen Abständen über Welt und Leben unterhält? Haben im 21. Jahrhundert vielleicht Forschungskollegs und Institutes for Advanced Studies das Erbe der Gelehrtengesellschaften der Neuzeit angetreten? Sind die Akademien der Wissenschaften überteuerte Traditionsformen, geisteswissenschaftliche Editionsprojekte zur Sicherung kultureller Grundlagen zu administrieren? Solche Fragen werden heutigentags gewöhnlich vor den Toren von Akademien der Wissenschaften gestellt. Es gehört zu den guten Traditionen der Akademie am Gendarmenmarkt, solche kritischen Impulse im Hause zu diskutieren und in der Akademie nach Zukunft wie Gestalt von Akademien im 21. Jahrhundert zu fragen. Der Referent hat viele Jahren in der BBAW (u.a. als Sekretar und Vizepräsident) Verantwortung getragen und präsentiert seine Antwort auf Fragen, die nicht nur der BBAW von politischen Verantwortungsträgern wie interessierter Öffentlichkeit gestellt werden.
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Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Book Launch: Multinlingualism, Lingua Franca, Lingua Sacra, ed. J. E. Braarvig and M. J. Geller
Time
05/22/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Jens Braarvig – Universitetet i Oslo, Norway
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Talk
Ghost Machines
Time
05/18/2018
Location
Seminar room at the SFB-Villa (EG), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
CRC 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
Prof. Shane Butler (Johns Hopkins University)
Remarks
In a pair of lectures given at the Collegio Romano early in the seventeenth century, Famiano Strada, professor of eloquence, delighted audiences with a fictitious account of a lavish contest a century before. Dressed as their favorite ancient poets, the leading humanists of the day (Pontano, Bembo, Castiglione, etc.) were carried down the Tiber, Strada explains, perched on a floating Parnassus. Each later offered, in the guise and style of his ancient model, a new poem; these, of course, are really Strada’s own virtuosic compositions, and their topics include a remarkably precocious attempt to imagine the electric telegraph. Reconsidering this odd text in order to rethink the workings of classical reception, this paper will argue that beneath the fun lies a startling disruption of the space-time continuum, by which the present, haunted by a past already haunted by another past, suddenly finds itself connected to a dimly seen future. Shane Butler is Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore Space is limited, so we kindly ask you to register.
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Workshop
Reading Soundly
Time
05/18/2018
Location
Seminar room at the SFB-Villa (EG), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
CRC 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
Prof. Shane Butler
Remarks
The Workshop will discuss three articles that are forthcoming or in progress: The first, “Principles of Sound Reading,” which will appear in Sound and the Ancient Senses (edd. Shane Butler and SaraNooter), due out later this year, offers a close reading of the famous storm scene at the start of Vergil’s Aeneid, with particular focus on a single, richly sonorous line. Adducing parallels from elsewhere in Vergil, as well as from Homer, Aratus, Pacuvius, Lucretius, and Cicero, and exploiting the insights of recent theorists of sound, I look for answers to an ancient question: What is the relationship between the sound of poetry and the sounds represented in and by poetry? The second, “Is the Voice a Myth? A Re-Reading of Ovid,” forthcoming in A Voice as Something More (eds. Martha Feldman and Judith Zeitlin), explores the tragic and violent story of Philomela in order to mount a critique of the Lacanian understanding of voice presented by Mladen Dolar in A Voice and Nothing More. The third is a short, speculative piece about a letter in which Cicero asks about the “chatter” of the young daughter of his friend and frequent correspondent, Atticus. I use the exchange to consider how much our own philological instincts and desires really depend, in the end, on “words.” Shane Butler is Nancy H. and Robert E. Hall Professor in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of Classics at Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore. If you are planning to participate, please, contact Birgitta v. Mallinckrodt.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History
Chemicals on Tour. Explorations into a Material History of the Global Waste Economy
Time
05/18/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Friedrichstr., elevator to the 5th floor, room 4026
Organizers
European Society for Environmental History
Lecturer
Simone Müller (München)
Links
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Conference
Theories of Vision and Light from Antiquity to the Renaissance
Time
05/17/2018 - 05/18/2018
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hannoversche Straße 6, room 1.03
Links
https://msilian.wixsite.com/visionlight ...
Bilateral Workshop
Konfessionalisierungsprozesse im Osmanischen Reich
Time
05/16/2018
Location
Seminar room of the SFB-Villa (EG), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
CRC 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Remarks
Space is limited, so we kindly ask you to register with Nikolas Pissis.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Museumsscheu, Museumsmüde: Limits and Labors of the Hygiene Exhibition Visitor
Time
05/16/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Kathryn Holihan
Premodern Conversation Colloquium
Chinese and European Renaissances? Neo-Confucian and Neo-Stoic Military Planning
Time
05/16/2018
17:00 - 18:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Maria Avxentevskaya and Marius Buning
Lecturer
Barend Noordam (Freie Universität Berlin - Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Remarks
Premodern Conversations is a monthly seminar on pre-modern and early-modern topics, aiming to offer researchers informal space to discuss their work-in-progress.
Links
mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
The Economy of Translating Arabo-Persian texts into Chinese
Time
05/15/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Dror Weil – Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Biographie und Netzwerk: Hans-Jürgen Treder
Time
05/14/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Raphael Schlattmann TUB
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
‚Biographie‘ des virtuellen Teilchens?
Time
05/14/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Markus Ehberger TUB
Droysen Lecture/Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
"Regentinnen hören auf, Frauen zu sein, sobald sie den Thron besteigen." Kaiserin Maria Theresia und die Geschlechterordnung des 18. Jahrhunderts
Time
05/09/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Zeughaus Kinosaal, Deutsches Historisches Museum
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Barbara Stolberg-Rillinger
Summer Colloquium Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Algorithmic Modeling of Musical Time
Time
05/08/2018
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Lecturer
Martin Scherzinger
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Lecture Series “Mythographies of Scripts and Alphabets”
Considering the Sealand Tablets for the Birth of Alphabet
Time
05/08/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Bibliothek Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
David Hamidovic – Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Kopenhagen
Time
05/07/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Mark Walker (Schenectady/Munic)
26th Karl Abraham Lecture
Some Notes on the First Attempts of British Psychoanalysts to Apply Psychoanalysis to the Understanding of Sociopolitical Issues
Time
05/06/2018
11:00
Location
ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin
Organizers
Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI)
Lecturer
Riccardo Steiner (London)
Remarks
In his lecture, Riccardo Steiner will sketch how some of the pioneers of British psychoanalysis tried to apply psychoanalysis to understand sociopolitical and historical issues during the first decades of the last century. Apart from Freud’s and Ferenczi’s work, he will focus on some papers of Ernest Jones, Edward Glover’s famous book War, Sadism and Pacifism (1932, 1947) and Roger Money-Kyrle’s Psychoanalysis and Politics (1951). The debate between Otto Fenichel and Edward Glover will also be mentioned, and the often ignored influence of Karl Abraham and his pupil Melanie Klein on their British colleagues will be demonstrated, as well. Finally, Riccardo Steiner will discuss the relevance of those interactions and debates up to this day and argue for a cautious and reality-based psychoanalytic input.
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Histories of Biomedical Knowledge
What was “Biological” about the “Biological Revolution” in Psychiatry?
Time
05/04/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5061, 10099 Berlin
Organizers
Lara Keuck (Research Group “Learning from Alzheimer's Disease. A History of Biomedical Models of Mental Illness”, HU Berlin)
Lecturer
Alfred Freeborn (Humboldt-Universtität zu Berlin)
Remarks
This paper draws from interviews with psychiatrists and psychologists in the UK and USA who began research projects in the late 1970s and 1980s which re-centred clinical research on biological validators for psychiatric illnesses. The key historical bifurcation traced here is the divergence in experimental cultures between earlier attempts by psychiatrists to performatively realize the brain through electromechanical models (Ashby, Walter et al) and the experimental neurobiology which focussed on in vivo attempts to unlock brain function. The experimental culture of the latter proved politically useful for the psychiatrists of the 1980s in using an in vivo experimental design which supported a reductive biological realism. I argue here that attention to the different experimental cultures is an effective way to understand how the meaning of the biological in psychiatry was transformed in this period. By also looking at how the theories associated with these experimental cultures were popularized in “brain books”, these constellations of concepts and theories will be contextualised in their political and social context. Overall, the “biological revolution” will be assessed as a moment in the shifting identity of the late-modern psychiatrist, and as part of a longer historical attempt to construct a ‘biology of mind’. We will be glad to receive your registration at: seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de.
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seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de
Anthropocene Lectures
Regarding Das Terrestrische Manifest
Time
05/04/2018
17:00 - 21:00
Location
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG in cooperation with the HKW
Lecturer
Bruno Latour
Remarks
The Anthropocene—the geological epoch of humanity—has established itself as a key concept within a wider scientific and social discourse. In the midst of the dramatic and destabilizing changes to the basic conditions for life on our planet, new potentials for human agency upon the Earth are to be explored. In the framework of the Anthropocene Lecture series, a number of prominent speakers accentuating the Anthropocene debate are being invited to respond to a topic that will be a central challenge for many generations to come. The lectures take place at the MPIWG, the Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), and the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam.
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Colloquium
Digital-Humanities-Kolloquium
Time
05/04/2018
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
Die „Digital Humanities“ sind eine der wichtigsten Entwicklungen im Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften in den letzten Jahren. Um den Dialog zu diesem Thema weiter zu intensivieren, organisieren die TELOTA-Initiative und das Zentrum Sprache der BBAW unterstützt vom Forschungsverbund if|DH|b ein monatliches Digital-Humanities-Kolloquium. Das DH-Kolloquium hat es sich vorgenommen, aktuelle Themen der Digital Humanities praxisnah und anwendungsorientiert zur Diskussionzu bringen und Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler beim Einsatz digitaler Methoden in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung zu unterstützen.
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Young Scientists’ Conference
Wissenskulturen der Vormoderne: Autorisierungen – Remediationen – Transfers
Time
05/03/2018 - 05/05/2018
Location
Seminar room at the SFB-Villa (EG), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
CRC 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Remarks
Space is limited, so we kindly ask you to register via email.
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Berlin Brandenburg Colloquium on Environmental History
The Great Chernobyl Mystery: How Ignorance became Policy and Politics
Time
05/03/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Entrance Friedrichstr., elevator to the 6th floor, room 5061
Organizers
European Society for Environmental History
Lecturer
Kate Brown (Baltimore, American Academy Berlin)
Links
astrid.m.kirchhof@geschichte.hu-berlin.de
Workshop
Rückwärtserzählen
Time
05/03/2018 - 05/05/2018
Location
ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3. Et., Trajekte-Tagungsraum
Organizers
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung; organisiert von Mona Körte
Remarks
In Rückwärtserzählungen wird die zeitliche Abfolge von Geschehnissen verkehrt. Solche Inversionen, die die Zeitlichkeit, aber auch die Kausalität betreffen können, kommen in Literatur, Kunst und Wissenschaft immer wieder zum Einsatz. In Geschichtsphilosophie und Wissenschaftsgeschichte bildet retrogrades Erzählen eine kritische Alternative zu zielfixierten Verlaufsgeschichten, die im Ruf stehen, Diskontinuierliches einzuebnen. In Literatur und Film wird es dort produktiv, wo der Chronologie oder mehr noch der Korrelation bestimmter Ereignisse misstraut wird und Raum für andere Lesarten der Zusammenhänge entstehen soll. Exemplarisch hierfür steht Ilse Aichingers Spiegelgeschichte (1946): Auf dem erzählten Weg vom Tod zurück ins Leben schieben sich nicht nur die Wirkungen vor die Ursachen, es werden auch die daraus erfolgenden Konsequenzen miterzählt. Rückwärtserzählungen gehorchen also keineswegs der bloßen Zeitumkehr, sondern aktivieren meist beide Zeitrichtungen. Deshalb ist ihre Dynamik als ein »Rückwärtsvorgang« zu beschreiben, der sowohl desorientierende als auch reorientierende Funktion hat. Der Workshop möchte die poetologischen und epistemologischen Dimensionen des Rückwärtserzählens näher bestimmen und das Besondere der Inversion an Einzelfällen aus Literatur und Wissenschaft, aber auch aus Film und Musik untersuchen: Ist es der narrative Prozess, der rückwärtsläuft, ist es die Ordnung, in der die erzählten Ereignisse präsentiert werden, oder sind es die Ereignisse der erzählten Geschichte selbst? Wie verhält sich retrogrades Erzählen zu teleologischen Erzählmustern, zu Ursprungs- oder Anfangserzählungen? Und ist es überhaupt ein wirkungsvoller Einspruch gegen die Chronologie?
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Sanskrit Names on Paper: Knowing Plants in East India Company Bengal, c. 1790
Time
05/02/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstr. 191-193, Room 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Minakshi Menon
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Begriffsgeschichte und die Historisierung des neuzeitlichen Wissenschaftsverständnisses
Time
04/30/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Dr. Désirée Schauz (Göttingen)
Panel Discussion
The Incidentalness of Things
Time
04/27/2018
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Topoi Building Dahlem Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Lena Appel, Reinhard Bernbeck, Anna Loy, Susan Pollock, Stefan Schreiber
Remarks
Follow-Up event of the workshop. At the center of this workshop are the unquestioned material frameworks that offer people orientation in their quotidian lives without ever taking on any specific “meaning”. How can archaeology integrate this essential part of past lifeworlds into its narratives, and what is the role of incidentalness in academic work, that of archaeologists included?
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Conference
Harmonic Theory in Ancient Greece
Time
04/26/2018 - 04/27/2018
10:00 - 19:30
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10115 Berlin, room 1.03
Organizers
Sinem Kılıç, Sara Panteri
Remarks
Ancient Greek Music can be studied from a twofold perspective: on the one hand, there is the musical practise, the so-called mousiké, which played an important role in the polis; on the other hand, there is the theoretical part, harmoniké, the study of music as a physical quantitative phenomenon, which, as a consequence, could be described using the language of mathematics, in particular, arithmetic. The aim of this conference is to focus on this second aspect of ancient Greek Music. Within this framework, we will take into particular consideration the following fact: the ancient scholars who gave contributions to the field of Harmonics treated it as a scientific discipline and they were often authors of mathematical and philosophical texts as well. Therefore, some of the questions that will be addressed to during this conference are: how could a scientific method be applied to music? How were arithmetical concepts and procedures used in order to describe musical patterns? To what extent did musical experience influence the theoretical description we find in the treatises? Since Harmonics is part of the education of the philosopher, which are the philosophical implications behind particular theoretical musical structures?
Links
mailto:ancient.harmonics@gmail.com
Forschungskolloquium Gräzistik
Der Eid des Hippokrates in Antike und orientalischem Mittelalter
Time
04/25/2018
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Unter den Linden 6, Raum 3052
Organizers
Markus Asper, Giulia Chesi
Lecturer
Oliver Overwien
Remarks
Das Institut für Klassische Philologie lädt alle Studierenden und Lehrenden herzlich ein zur Eröffnung des Sommersemesters 2018. Anschließend bittet das Institut alle Studierenden, Lehrenden und Gäste zu einem Empfang.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
The Astronomer's Chair: The Moral Economy of Sitting
Time
04/25/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Dorotheenstr. 24, room 1.405
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Omar Nasim
Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Medieval Computus: Three Arguments for its Significance to Historians of Science
Time
04/24/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Faith Wallis, McGill University, Canada
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Workshop
Radical Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis, and 1968
Time
04/23/2018
14:00 - 21:00
Location
ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin
Organizers
Institute for Cultural Inquiry Berlin
Lecturer
Camille Robcis (Keynote Speaker)
Remarks
The workshop is fully booked, but no registration is necessary for the evening lecture.
Links
https://www.ici-berlin.org/events/radica ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Beobachtung als Lebensart: Praktiken der Wissensproduktion bei Forschungsreisen im 18. Jahrhundert
Time
04/23/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Room H 3012
Organizers
TU Berlin - Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Dr. Julia Böttcher (Erlangen)
Talk
Ein Zentaur in London: Lektüre und Beobachtung in der frühneuzeitlichen Naturforschung
Time
04/20/2018
10:15
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum (Erdgeschoss), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
Dr. Fabian Kraemer (Wissenschaftsgeschichte, LMU München)
Remarks
Space is limited. Please register.
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Conference
10 Jahre Exzellenzcluster Topoi – Neue Perspektiven auf die Alte Welt
Time
04/19/2018
09:00 - 17:30
Location
BBAW, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Leibniz-Saal Jägerstraße 22/23 10117 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
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Colloquium Department III
Conclusion Session
Time
04/17/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture
Spiraltendenzen in Kultur und Natur
Time
04/11/2018
19:00 - 20:30
Location
Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung, Auguststraße 75, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Alfred-Ehrhardt-Stiftung
Lecturer
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger
Remarks
Die Form der Spirale hat die Menschen seit jeher fasziniert. Wir finden sie in frühen Schmuckgegenständen und Ornamenten in vielen verschiedenen Hochkulturen, und sie hat die weitere kulturelle Entwicklung der Menschheit über die Jahrtausende hinweg begleitet. In nahezu perfekter Ausprägung finden wir sie auch in Artefakten der Natur, vor allem in den mineralischen Gehäusen von Weichtieren des Landes und der Meere. Naturforscher haben sich seit der Frühen Neuzeit darüber Gedanken gemacht, welche Gesetzmäßigkeiten des Wachstums der Entstehung solcher Formen zu Grunde liegen. Und warum drehen sie einmal nach links und einmal nach rechts? Vermutlich haben diese Gebilde den kulturellen Spiralformen und verwandten Formen wie der Schraube in Architektur, Malerei, Geschirren und Geschmeiden ursprünglich als Vorwurf gedient. Dann hat sie sich jedoch als Kulturformen verselbständigt und ihre eigene Geschichte hervorgebracht, einmal prominenter wie etwa im Barock, einmal weniger prominent wie im Klassizismus. Diesen Fluktuationen geht der Vortrag nach und fragt nach ihren Gründen. Auch die Mathematik hat sich, von Archimedes bis Bernoulli, mit der Formalisierung der Regelmäßigkeiten dieses aufgebrochenen und dynamisierten Kreises beschäftigt. Und die Lebenswissenschaften unserer Tage haben in der Doppelspirale der Desoxyribonukleinsäure, aus der unsere Gene gemacht sind, ihre Ikone gefunden. Sie ist zum integralen Bestandteil der Bildwelt unseres Zeitalters geworden. So bildet die Spirale einen Knotenpunkt in der Entwicklung von Natur, Wissenschaft und Kunst, um die sich diese Überlegungen drehen. Eintritt frei | Wegen beschränktem Platzkontingent wird um schriftliche Voranmeldung gebeten.
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Workshop Series “Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog”
„Das Werk ist die Totenmaske der Konzeption“. Schreibverfahren bei Walter Benjamin
Time
04/10/2018
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz Haus Unter den Linden Entrance: Dorotheenstraße 27 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
Lecturer
Ursula Marx, Akademie der Künste – Walter Benjamin Archiv
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Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Crafts and Innovation
Time
04/10/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Dagmar Schäfer & Giorgio Riell
Remarks
Commentator: Christian Kassung (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Premodern Conversation Colloquium
Epistemological Reflections in the Prize Contests of the French Academies (1720–1760)
Time
03/29/2018
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Maria Avxentevskaya and Marius Buning
Lecturer
Martin Urmann (SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung”, Freie Universität Berlin)
Remarks
The presentation deals with the development of the prize contests (concours académiques) held by the French academies in the 18th century as media of knowledge in the context of the Republic of Letters. The focus is especially on the rhetorical and moral prize questions of the provincial academies between 1720 and 1760. Research on the prize contests has so far mainly concentrated on the scientific and technological competitions of the 18th century – considering them as proof of the academies’ agenda of innovation. Yet, despite the changing functions and topics of the concours académique, the tradition of the rhetorical prize questions remained one of the vital pillars of the genre during the 18th century. Increasingly influenced by Enlightenment discourse, the prix d’éloquence deal with the burning philosophical issues of the epoch, above all the changing role of the arts and sciences, the development of morals and the status of the rhetorical knowledge production as compared to the new knowledge of the empirical sciences. What becomes evident is a process of transformation towards topics and modes of reflection that go beyond the traditional patterns of the genre. The famous concours of the Académie de Dijon won by Rousseau in 1750: “Si le rétablissement des sciences et des arts a contribué à épurer les moeurs?” is only the most prominent example of this development. The major focus in analysing the changing epistemic status of the concours académique is the question to what extent the rhetorical competitions of the provincial academies turned into a textual medium reflecting the crucial epistemic transformations within the Republic of Letters since the 17th century, that is especially the shift towards written communication and towards the serial production and accumulation of factual knowledge. In the rhetorical prize contests, an explicit reflection on the contrasting modes of knowledge production emerges regarding the method of the exact sciences on the one hand and the knowledge of the textual tradition on the other hand. What is particularly striking, is the epistemological critique of scientific method developed by the defenders of rhetoric in the prix d’éloquence.
Links
mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Crafts and Innovation
Time
03/27/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Annapurna Mamidipudi
Remarks
Commentator: BuYun Chen (Swarthmore College / MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Werkstattgespräch
Was war neu am reformatorischen Buchdruck?
Time
03/27/2018
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal Potsdamer Straße 33 10785 Berlin
Organizers
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin in cooperation with the lecture series "Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog”
Remarks
Werkstattgespräch mit Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann, Lehrstuhl für Kirchengeschichte der Universität Göttingen, und Dr. Falk Eisermann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin Mit einem Grußwort von Barbara Schneider-Kempf, Generaldirektorin der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin „Umbruch“ oder „Kontinuität“ – das ist von jeher ein zentraler Diskussionsgegenstand reformationsgeschichtlicher Forschung, bisweilen auch ein echtes Reizthema. Zu den wichtigen Ergebnissen des Reformationsjubiläums 2017 gehört die verstärkte Erkenntnis, dass dieses Begriffspaar nicht nur für die Reformationstheologie, sondern auch für die Buch- und Mediengeschichte der Reformation von größter Bedeutung gewesen ist. Unter der Fragestellung „Was war neu am reformatorischen Buchdruck?“ wird Prof. Dr. Thomas Kaufmann (Göttingen), einer der führenden deutschen Kirchenhistoriker, seine Forschungen und Überlegungen zum Thema vorstellen und mit dem Leiter des Inkunabelreferats der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Dr. Falk Eisermann, diskutieren. Please register.
Links
http://blog.sbb.berlin/termin/werkstattg ...
Histories of Biomedical Knowledge
An Archive of Brains: Mobilisations of Past and Future in a Danish Brain Banking Debate
Time
03/23/2018
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5061, 10099 Berlin
Organizers
Lara Keuck (Research Group “Learning from Alzheimer's Disease. A History of Biomedical Models of Mental Illness”, HU Berlin)
Lecturer
Thomas Erslev (Aarhus Universitet)
Remarks
My project revolves around a Danish brain collection established in 1945 consisting of 9.479 brains from psychiatric patients who died in state hospitals. These brains were collected without consent and without informing next of kin. Active collection stopped in 1982, but the brains were kept and has since been enrolled in several research projects, especially on familial dementias, depression, and schizophrenia. The collection has been the subject of public debate at several occasions since the early 1990s, and the Danish Ethical Council has issued two independent statements (1992 & 2006) about the ethics of the collection. Last year, in June, the regional council who bears financial responsibility for the collection, decided to close it down. A public bid was opened up for other research institutions interested in taking over the collection, but so far none have been able to allocate the needed storage space, or sufficient funds. If no bid is placed before summer, the collection will be destroyed, presumably by cremation. This decision also has spurred a lively public debate, and renewed ethical deliberation. My broad, initial interest in the collection is twofold and has to do with ontology and temporality: First, how does the (discursive and material) transformation from subject to object take place, and what kind of cultural tropes, hopes and anxieties accompany it? What is specific to brain sciences that deal with material brains rather than images and models (as imaging sciences and neurochemical research)? Second, what role does history and historicity play in the debates about the collection? How is history put to work in different political, epistemological, and ethical arguments? My paper will present an overview of the collection’s history and attempt to parse out the uses of history in the recent debates. We will be glad to receive your registration at: seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de.
Links
seraphina.rekowski@hu-berlin.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Digital History, Quantitative History: Between the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Time
03/20/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Claire Lemercier, Research Director CNRS, France
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Premodern Conversation Colloquium
Infrastructures of Natural History
Time
03/15/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Maria Avxentevskaya and Marius Buning
Lecturer
Lissa L. Roberts (Universiteit Twente)
Remarks
This presentation turns to the history of natural history in and around Japan during the second half of the eighteenth century, in order to examine what happens when we think about natural history through the lens of its infrastructures. By affording the passage of humans and their goods, physical and knowledge infrastructures made the accumulation, exchange and translation of naturalists, as well as the objects and products of their explorations, possible. As part of this examination, the presentation will consider the historical fragility of infrastructures and their components, whether we’re talking about a ship or a taxonomic system, which required great efforts to maintain, improve and replace them. So too will attention be given to the various uses to which the same infrastructures might be put, as well as the various meanings that might be attributed to them. Finally, while addressing the roles played by infrastructures in constructing the investigation and understanding of nature, it will also focus on how elements of nature were recruited as components of infrastructure - sometimes with far-reaching environmental and epistemological consequences.
Links
mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Crafts and Innovation
Time
03/13/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Noa Grass
Remarks
Commentator: Masato Hasegawa (MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Diseases and Health
Time
03/06/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Bian He
Remarks
Commentator: Elaine Leong (MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Forgetting Knowledge
Time
02/28/2018 - 03/02/2018
15:30 - 14:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, Berlin 14195
Organizers
Ohad Parnes (MPIWG) in cooperation with The Descartes Center - Utrecht University, The Vossius Center - University of Amsterdam and Huygens ING
Remarks
In studying the evolution of knowledge, historians have traditionally focused on processes of transmission and succession of knowledge, memory being a central category for the explanation of these processes. But what about the failures, the knowledge that was forgotten? In order to understand why and how knowledg traveled, we must also understand why and how knowledge was lost, suppressed, misunderstood, rejected, or simply forgotten. But what does it mean to define knowledge as forgotten? What does forgetting mean? And can forgetting be understood and told as such, as an active process which is not necessarily the ‘other side of memory? Attempting to address these and related questions, the conference will be organized around four sessions, each focusing on one aspect of forgotten knowledge. Each session is jointly organized by colleagues from the MPIWG and at least one of the Dutch Institutions, structured around input talks with a follow up discussion.
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Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Diseases and Health
Time
02/27/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Edna Bonhomme
Remarks
Commentator: Projit Mukharji (University of Pennsylvania / MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture
On Epiphenomenal Temporality: Black German Identities and Quantum Physics in the African Diaspora
Time
02/26/2018
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin
Organizers
ICI Berlin
Lecturer
Michelle M. Wright
Remarks
This talk will delve deep into the often nuanced ways our assumptions about time in the Humanities impact the epistemological formations of our discipline. Beginning with the girding structure of the linear progress narrative and finishing with what Wright dubs ‘Epiphenomenal spacetime’, her argument will intersect with contemporary and canonical formations of Blackness within and without academe while intersecting with discourses on the temporal shift from Newtonian to theoretical particle physics. Time, as Wright will show, has everything to do with the representation of racial collectives in the Western tradition. Michelle M. Wright is the Augustus Baldwin Longstreet Professor of English at Emory University. She is the author of Becoming Black: Creating Identity in the African Diaspora (2004) and Physics of Blackness: Beyond the Middle Passage Epistemology (2015). Writing through gender studies, queer studies, science studies, time studies, Black European Studies, African American Studies, and African Diaspora Studies, her work focuses on Black identity formation in both creative and academic discourses.
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Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Knowledge and Description
Time
02/20/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Michael Squire, King´s College London, GB
Links
tneuendorf@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Eine Schau zur Schau stellen. Theaterausstellungen, Ausstellungskultur und Geisteswissenschaften um 1900
Time
02/14/2018
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Lotte Schüßler (HU Berlin/MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin)
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Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Diseases and Health
Time
02/13/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Che Qun
Remarks
Commentator: Eva Sternfeld (TU Berlin)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Astronomers and Surveyors in the Struggle for the “Upper Oxus State”: A Few More Episodes in the Great Game of Middle Asia
Time
02/12/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
Technische Universität, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Raum H 3013
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Konstantin Ivanov (Moskau)
Remarks
The territory of Central Asia, forcibly occupied by Imperial Russia between 1865–1878, was mainly desert land that contained just a few small, densely populated oases. Why was it necessary to gain control of it? It did not serve any military purpose, because the better protection of the southern frontier of the Empire were the notorious deserts and dry steppes. Economically, it was also a questionable venture. In my talk, I am going to show how the war for the territory eventually turned into a war against the territory. The main agents of that war – as well as its contributors and beneficiaries – were the British and Russian military geodesists and surveyors, who used their skills to advance their careers as well as their social status and personal economic growth. Rather than a hostile confrontation, to them, their collaboration during the so-called Afghan Demarcation between the Russian Empire and Great Britain in 1885, brought the pleasure of sharing topographical and geographical information. As a result, after the outer and inner demarcations had been fixed, this region – “Created by the Lord in Anger” – was surveyed and explained not only in terms of geography, but also economically, ethnically, and historically. Dr. Konstantin Ivanov ist u. a. leitender wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am I. S. Vavilov Institut für Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Moskau, Professor für Astronomie an der staatlichen berufsbildenden Universität in Tula, Mitherausgeber der Zeitschrift “Laboratorium: Russian Review of Social Research” sowie wissenschaftlicher Sekretär der Ausgabe "Studien in der Astronomiegeschichte" der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
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Exhibition
Salon für Ästhetische Experimente #10 Acts of Orientation
Time
02/12/2018
19:00
Location
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin, Hirschfeld Bar
Organizers
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in cooperation with the University of Arts Berlin (UdK)
Lecturer
Kerstin Ergenzinger
Links
Salon für Ästhetische Experimente Website
Talk
„Exzerpieren – Kompilieren – Tradieren. Transformationen des Wissens zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter“
Time
02/09/2018
10:15
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum (Erdgeschoss), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Stephan Dusil, Dr. Gerald Schwedler, Dr. Raphael Schwitter (Universität Leuven/ Universität Zürich)
Remarks
Since space is limited, we ask you kindly to register.
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Lecture Series “Trust as a Resource of International Politics”
Pugwash and the two Germanies, 1955—1967: Trust between Scientists as Political Resource?
Time
02/08/2018
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hörsaal 1072, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin Center for Cold War Studies, Humboldt University Berlin
Lecturer
Alison Kraft (Chair: Elke Seefried)
Remarks
Arising from the Russell-Einstein Manifesto of July 1955, the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (Pugwash) sought to bring together elite scientists from across ideological and geopolitical divides to confront the dangers posed by nuclear weapons. Emphasizing its political neutrality, and the suspension of national allegiances and ideological affinities, Pugwash sought to develop an approach to disarmament based on the principle of scientific objectivity. Setting out its agenda for overcoming political antagonisms in the 1958 Vienna Declaration, Pugwash was gradually established as a forum for “soft” diplomacy. In 1995 it was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work towards nuclear disarmament. “Trust” was central to the identity of Pugwash. Bound up with notions of personal and moral integrity, trust between Pugwash scientists derived from a common language and a shared commitment to social responsibility. This had powerful effects, holding relationships in place across national borders and the blocs, enabling Pugwash to develop as a transnational network or “epistemic community”. This lecture explores both the vital importance and the fragility of “trust” as a resource for Pugwash. In exploring this paradox, it focuses on Pugwash in East and West Germany, and the relationship(s) between them during the 1960s. How was trust established and deployed across this sharpest of Cold War divides? And what did it mean in the context of the East-West German encounter? Did the German case(s) pose particular advantages or difficulties as a site for building and deploying trust?
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Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
“In der therapeutischen Rüstkammer der Ärzte.” Paul Martini und die klinische Forschung in Deutschland, 1920–1970
Time
02/07/2018
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Christian Sammer (Münster/Bielefeld)
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Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: The Limits of Animality
Time
02/06/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Shen Yubin
Remarks
Commentator: Axel Hüntelmann (Charitè)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium on Early Modern History
Mission, Naturgeschichte und Kommerz – Praktiken der grassroots-Gelehrsamkeit im 18. Jahrhundert
Time
02/06/2018
18:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin Raum A 125
Organizers
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Schunka (FU Berlin)
Lecturer
Thomas Ruhland (MLU Halle-Wittenberg)
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Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Photometrie am Leuchtturm: Die Feldversuche der Stevensons
Time
02/05/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Hauptgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Raum H 3013
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Martin Jähnert (Berlin)
Remarks
Am Abend des 19. März 1833 trifft eine illustre Gruppe lokaler Würdenträger, Mitglieder der Royal Society sowie der Chefingenieur der schottischen Leuchtturmadministration, Robert Stevenson, in einem noblen Apartment in Edinburgh zusammen und blicken auf Edinburghs Seeweg in die Nordsee, den Firth of Forth. Dort versuchen sie, Lichtsignale zu entdecken, die aus einigen Meilen Entfernung auf das Apartment gerichtet sind, um zu entscheiden, ob die Fresnel-Linse Einzug in Schottlands Leuchttürme nehmen soll oder nicht. In meinem Vortrag werde ich das Post-Doc Projekt Photometry at the Lighthouse vorstellen und rekonstruieren, wie Robert Stevenson und seine Söhne versuchten, die Helligkeit von Leuchttürmen zu bestimmen. Dabei werde ich argumentieren, dass die Stevensons die Beleuchtung von Leuchttürmen als komplexes technologisches Problem verstanden und dieses unter Bedingungen untersuchten und beurteilten, die denen auf See möglichst ähnelten. Um diese Bedingungen miteinzubeziehen, transformierten sie Edinburgh und seine Umgebung in einen Raum der Wissensproduktion und entwickelten eine Photometrie, die nicht primär auf eine Quantifizierung von Licht abzielte, sondern vielmehr das persönliche Urteil über Lichtintensität stabilisieren und verbessern sollte. Martin Jähnert ist im Rahmen des Berliner Zentrums für Wissensgeschichte Postdoktorand an der TU Berlin. In seinem neuen Projekt Photometry at the Lighthouse erforscht er die Beobachtungs- und Experimentalpraktiken von Leuchtturmingenieuren und Wissenschaftlern im 19. Jahrhundert als Teil einer Wissensgeschichte der Photometrie. Zuvor war er Doktorand an der TU Berlin sowie dem Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte und wurde dort mit der Arbeit „Practicing the Correspondence Principle in the Old Quantum Theory. A Transformation through Implementation“ zur Geschichte der „alten“ Quantentheorie promoviert.
Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Liebestypen. Gefühlswissen und Selbsttechniken in ostdeutscher Ratgeberkommunikation bis 1968
Time
01/31/2018
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Till Großmann (MPI für Bildungsforschung Berlin)
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Colloquium Department III
A Silkworm For All Seasons
Time
01/30/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Lisa Onaga
Remarks
Commentator: Cornelia Reiher (Freie Universität Berlin)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium on Early Modern History
Begegnung von Wissenschaften, Kunst und visueller Wissensorganisation in frühneuzeitlichen islamischen Gesellschaften
Time
01/30/2018
18:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin Raum A 125
Organizers
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alexander Schunka (FU Berlin)
Lecturer
Sonja Brentjes (MPI for the History of Science, Berlin)
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Was? Wer? Wo? Wann? Warum? Five Questions to Ask about Agricultural Meteorology
Time
01/29/2018
16:15 - 17:45
Location
Technische Universität, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Raum H 3013
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Giuditta Parolini (Berlin)
Remarks
What is agricultural meteorology? Who was engaged in it? Where did it develop? When? And above all, why? In my talk, I will use these W-questions to present my current research project on the history of agricultural meteorology, the discipline which studies the influence of the weather on crop growth and livestock performance. The aim of my project is to investigate how international organisations such as the World Meteorological Organisation and the International Institute of Agriculture contributed to develop agricultural meteorology and what features the discipline had in a few selected countries. In particular, I will pursue in depth a local case study: the history of agricultural meteorology in Great Britain, where the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries set up long- term observational and experimental schemes on weather and crops. In my talk, I will discuss my archival sources and the challenges posed by working at the intersection of the histories of agriculture, meteorology and the environment. Dr. Giuditta Parolini holds an MSc in the History of Science, Medicine and Technology from Imperial College London and a PhD in Science, Technology, and Humanities from the University of Bologna. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at TU Berlin, funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).
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Book Presentation
Navigating Noise
Time
01/29/2018
19:00
Location
Bookstore Walther König Berlin, Burgstraße 27, 10178 Berlin-Mitte
Lecturer
Kerstin Ergenzinger,Christian Kassung, Siegfried Zielinski
Remarks
The event is mainly held in English.
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Structures in Becoming: Modelling Emergence, Transition, and Instability - Lecture Series
Structures in Becoming 01
Time
01/25/2018
19:00
Location
Tieranatomisches Theater der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Campus Nord, Philippstr. 12/13, Haus 3, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
Interdisciplinary Laboratory Image Knowledge Gestaltung.(Karin Krauthausen, Samo Tomšič, Richard Weinkamer)
Lecturer
Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana), Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Remarks
For well over three decades, the natural sciences have intensively focused on dynamic structures and developed new mathematical models and simulations for them. The research on active matter is exemplary in this examination of emergence, transformation, and transgression of complex material structures of order. The developments in the past few decades have challenged the everyday understanding of matter and structure, and profoundly altered the structural thought in various sciences. For quite some time now structure and materiality have no longer been addressed as oppositions. For example, structure is now conceived both materially and historically. And one could also add here that it is seen as becoming. On the other hand, matter is argued to be its own, analogue code. Essential for the experimental and theoretical analysis of these material structures is the question of changes and breaks. Natural sciences understand structure and materiality on the basis of emergence, transformation and instability. Human sciences contain parallel developments, e.g. the radicalisation of classical structuralism through the problem of structural incompleteness in Jacques Lacan, the prevalence of the problematic of becoming in Gilles Deleuze, or the notion of dissipating structures in Ilya Prigogine and Isabelle Stengers. Finally these and other perspectives shed new light on the ancient philosophies of nature and the entire history of materialism (e.g. Heraclitus’ dynamic notion of the One or Lucretius’ enigmatic signifier clinamen) as well as enabling new interpretations of phenomena, which challenge the traditional dichotomy of nature and culture (e.g. the structure of the drive). The lecture series Structures in Becoming will examine the current state of structural thought as well as its more or less distant history through discussions with leading representatives from the natural and human sciences.
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Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Isotype und Adprint – Wissenstransfer im “Jahrhundert des Auges”
Time
01/24/2018
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Silke Körber (HU Berlin)
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Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Visualizing Cosmologies
Time
01/23/2018
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Michelle McCoy
Remarks
Commentator: Dror Weil (MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Guest Lecture
Sinai Palimpsest Witnesses of the New Testament Apocrypha
Time
01/23/2018
18:15
Location
Sitzungsraum SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Gastvortrag des SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“, auf Einladung des Teilprojekts C01 „Transfer apokalyptischen Wissens im antiken Christentum“ (Leitung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Markschies)
Lecturer
Dr. Grigory Kessel (Austrian Academy of Sciences / University of Manchester)
Remarks
The presentation is going to deal with two palimpsests preserved in the collection of the monastery of St. Catherine on Mount Sinai, namely Arabic 514 and Arabic 588 that were included in the ‘Sinai Palimpsests Project’ (directed by M. Phelps and C. Rapp). Although the two palimpsests under consideration were not totally unknown to scholars, none of them was studied systematically with an attempt to identify the manuscripts and texts that were reused for their production. Two Arabic manuscripts have much in common. Both are palimpsests throughout and both were made out of different manuscripts, mostly in Syriac language. In my talk, I will introduce the Syriac manuscripts that were reused with a particular attention to the apocryphal texts that have been identified. Space is limited; please register with Emiliano Fiori.
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Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Diary, Accounts, References. Buchhaltung und Rechnungswesen in der Medizin in Deutschland und Großbritannien, 1750-1950
Time
01/17/2018
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Axel C. Hüntelmann (Charité)
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Colloquium Winter 2017-2018 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Signal, Symbol, Measure, Model
Time
01/16/2018
13:30 - 15:30
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Lecturer
Xiaochang Li
Remarks
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Talk
Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung und Naturkunde. Alterität, Rasse und Hybridisierung in der Philosophiegeschichte um 1800
Time
01/16/2018
18:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum (EG), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Lecturer
PD Dr. Catherine König-Pralong (Universität Freiburg i.Br.)
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Talk
Emotional Machines: Toward an Affective History of Technology and Intimacy in Japan
Time
01/16/2018
17:00
Location
MPI for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPI for Human Development
Lecturer
Elena Giannoulis and Daniel White, Freie Universität Berlin
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Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Spectacular Astronomy and the Planetarium
Time
01/15/2018
16:15
Location
Technische Universität, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Raum H 2038
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Charlotte Bigg (Paris)
Remarks
Since the nineteenth century, astronomical spectacle has been one of the major loci where spatial and visual cultures of modernity have been elaborated and experienced at the intersection of science, technology and spectacle. I will present PARS, a collective undertaking combining academic research with artistic and professional mediation that looks into the performance, the material and technological characteristics of astronomical shows, their social and cultural contexts but also their perception and experience by different audiences. Taking the example of the planetarium, I will show how we explore the shared experience of astronomical spectacles and the ways in which it contributed and might continue to foster new senses of the collective and of the modern world. Dr. Charlotte Bigg promovierte an der Universität Cambridge nach dem Studium der Wissenschaftstheorie und der Geschichte an den Universitäten von Victoria (Kanada) und Oxford. Anschließend arbeitete sie am Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Berlin und als wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der ETH Zürich. Seit 2009 forscht sie am Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Centre Alexandre Koyré und unterrichtet an der École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Sie arbeitet derzeit über verschiedenen Formen der öffentlichen Darstellung der Wissenschaften (von Ausstellungen und Vorstellungen bis hin zu Architektur) sowie über die visuellen Kulturen der physikalischen Wissenschaften.
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Workshop Series “Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Dialog”
Lesen, kopieren, schreiben. Die Kunst des Exzerpierens in der europäischen Literatur des 18. Jahrhunderts
Time
01/09/2018
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz Haus Unter den Linden Entrance: Dorotheenstraße 27 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
Lecturer
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Elisabeth Décultot, Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
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Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Wave Science and its Forms
Time
01/08/2018
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Stefan Helmreich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Links
tneuendorf@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Das Archiv der Wissenschaft: Altphilologie und Astronomie im 19. Jahrhundert
Time
12/20/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Hauptgebäude, Raum 2249a ('Marmorsaal')
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Lorraine Daston (MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin)
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Anthropocene Lecture
The Body Politic: Human Being and Becoming in the Planetary Era
Time
12/19/2017
14:00
Location
IASS Potsdam Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies e.V. Berliner Straße 130 D-14467 Potsdam
Organizers
Franz Mauelshagen
Lecturer
Karen Litfin
Remarks
No registration required
Links
Franz.Mauelshagen@iass-potsdam.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Das Theaitetos-Problem: Überlegungen zu einer Geschichte schwacher Wissensbestände
Time
12/18/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
Technische Universität, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Room H 2038
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Moritz Epple (Goethe Universität Frankfurt a.M.)
Remarks
This event is a cooperation between the TU and the Colloquium for the History of Knowledge at the HU (responsible: Anke te Heesen).
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Workshop
Confessionalization and/as Knowledge Transfer in Eastern Christianity
Time
12/15/2017 - 12/16/2017
10:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Seminarzentrum Room L116, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
C06 "Transfer and Interference. Configurations of Knowledge in the Period of the Greek Homines Novi in the Ottoman Empire (1641-1730)"
Lecturer
Déborah Blocker, Simone Testa, Mira Becker-Sawatzky, Ulrike Schneider
Remarks
Although the Confessionalization paradigm was developed within the context of Early Modern Studies stressing aspects of confession- and state-building in Post-Reformation Europe, a growing tendency in recent scholarship attempts to expand the paradigm on a global scale. The Ottoman Empire seems to be a prominent case in this discussion on the applicability of the paradigm in different historical contexts, involving all three main religions (Muslims, Jews and Christians) in efforts of determining their confessional identities. Having in mind that projects aiming to the standardization of the Eastern Christian confession were initiated throughout the Greek Orthodox 17th century, this workshop focuses on the potential of the Confessionalization paradigm for the purposes of a History of Knowledge regarding the clerical milieus of the Eastern Church, i.e. on the multiple processes of knowledge transfer that emerged, were designed or materialized, interweaved or clashed in the context and as a result of the challenges summarized under the heading of Confessionalization. Key questions will concern Confessionalization as opening up a field of inter-confessional communication and conflict, negotiation and modification of knowledge; interpersonal networks and networks of books, genres and discourses in motion; materialities and medialities of transfer; accommodation strategies and institution-building processes in Eastern Christianity; the role of confessionally motivated negation both as an obstacle and as a form of knowledge transfer, fluent confessional identities and trans-confessional discourses in clerical milieus.
Links
mira.becker-sawatzky@fu-berlin.de
Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Paper Monuments: Reading Civil War Scrapbooks to Understand the History of Hate in America
Time
12/13/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Ellen Garvey (New Jersey City University)
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Workshop
Urheberrecht in der geisteswissenschaftlichen Forschung
Time
12/13/2017
14:00 - 17:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Villa des SFB 980, Sitzungsraum (EG), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB “Epistemes in Motion”
Remarks
Please register by December 12, 2017.
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Talk
Warum und zu welchem Zweck studiert man Provenienz?
Time
12/13/2017
20:00
Location
Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Wallotstraße 19, 14193 Berlin
Organizers
Forschungsverbund Marbach Weimar Wolfenbüttel und Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin
Lecturer
Bénédicte Savoy (TU Berlin/Collège de France)
Remarks
Please register by December 10, 2017.
Links
mailto:veranstaltungen@mww-forschung.de
Colloquium Winter 2017-2018 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
The Speed of Sound: Sequences from the History of Time Stretching and Pitch Shifting
Time
12/12/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Lecturer
Mara Mills, Jonathan Sterne
Remarks
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Visualizing Cosmologies
Time
12/12/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, LIbrary
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Vera Dorofeeva-Lichtmann
Remarks
Commentator: Cathleen Paethe (MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Talk
Protean Guises of Madness: Arabic and Latin Transformations of ‘Melancholia’ and ‘Phrenitis’
Time
12/12/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, Raum 3071, Unter den Linden 6, 10119 Berlin-Mitte
Organizers
Philipp van der Eijk
Lecturer
Nico Carpentieri (University of Connecticut)
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Workshop
The Know[ing] How of Early Modern Italian Academies
Time
12/11/2017
10:00
Location
Meeting Room, SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
B05 "Theorie und Ästhetik elusiven Wissens in der Frühen Neuzeit: Transfer und Institutionalisierung"
Lecturer
Déborah Blocker, Simone Testa, Mira Becker-Sawatzky, Ulrike Schneider
Remarks
Im Workshop wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie in Akademien des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in Italien poetische und kunsttheoretische Wissensbestände erörtert und tradiert werden. Damit wird es zum einen um frühneuzeitliche Akademien als Institutionen von Wissensaushandlungen und als Gelehrtenzirkel soziopolitischen Anspruchs gehen und zum anderen um Wissensformen, die mit ästhetischen Erfahrungs-und Erkenntnismodi korreliert sind und dadurch begrifflich schwer einholbar sind. So wird wissensgeschichtlich das Spannungsfeld von Tradition und Innovation, von Regelwerk und Kreativität in den Blick genommen. Gemäß der Thematik des Teilprojekts B05 wird dabei der epistemische Modus elusiven Wissens mit Blick auf Transfer und Institutionalisierung untersucht und in Austausch gebracht mit anderen aktuellen, internationalen Forschungsprojekten. Zudem dient der Workshop der Vorbereitung auf die thematisch weiter gefasste Akademien-Tagung der SFB-Teilprojekte A07, B05, C09 im Mai 2018. Im Workshop wird der Frage nachgegangen, wie in Akademien des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts in Italien poetische und kunsttheoretische Wissensbestände erörtert und tradiert werden. Damit wird es zum einen um frühneuzeitliche Akademien als Institutionen von Wissensaushandlungen und als Gelehrtenzirkel soziopolitischen Anspruchs gehen und zum anderen um Wissensformen, die mit ästhetischen Erfahrungs-und Erkenntnismodi korreliert sind und dadurch begrifflich schwer einholbar sind. So wird wissensgeschichtlich das Spannungsfeld von Tradition und Innovation, von Regelwerk und Kreativität in den Blick genommen. Gemäß der Thematik des Teilprojekts B05 wird dabei der epistemische Modus elusiven Wissens mit Blick auf Transfer und Institutionalisierung untersucht und in Austausch gebracht mit anderen aktuellen, internationalen Forschungsprojekten. Zudem dient der Workshop der Vorbereitung auf die thematisch weiter gefasste Akademien-Tagung der SFB-Teilprojekte A07, B05, C09 im Mai 2018. For more information please visit the Website of the SFB 980.
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mira.becker-sawatzky@fu-berlin.de
Workshop
The Experimental and Interdisciplinary Reconfiguration of Dense and Rare in the Long Sixteenth-Century
Time
12/11/2017
09:30 - 15:30
Location
Technische Universität Berlin, Marchstraße 23, room MAR 4.064 (4th floor)
Organizers
Cesare Pastorino, TU Berlin (DFG project “The Weight of Things”)
Lecturer
Arianna Borrelli, Stephen Clucas, Dana Jalobeanu, Silvia Manzo, Cesare Pastorino
Remarks
The theme of this workshop is the multidisciplinary research and experimentation on “dense and rare” –the rarefaction and condensation of matter– in the long sixteenth-century. Presenters will discuss work-in-progress towards a journal special issue. Papers will consider cases in which observation and practical experimentation on dense and rare played a major part in investigations, informing and/or complementing philosophical discussions. The workshop will adopt a markedly multidisciplinary perspective, examining examples often connecting quite different areas of experimentation, learning and natural-philosophical reflection.
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Workshop
Picturing the Revelation: Dreams, Prophecy and Imagination in Medieval Traditions
Time
12/07/2017 - 12/08/2017
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Villa des SFB 980, Sitzungsraum (EG), Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Epistemes in Motion”
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
“Goldwäscher, Wünschelrutengänger, Baumeister” – Die Erfindung des Wissenschaftsverlegers im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Time
12/06/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Alrun Schmidtke (HU Berlin)
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Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
The Worldwide Rise of “No Religion” and Its Significance
Time
12/05/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Linda Woodhead, Lancaster University, GB
Links
tneuendorf@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
12. Thomsen-Vorlesung
Die Evolution des Wissens
Time
11/30/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Lecture Hall of the Ethnologisches Museum (Ethnological Museum), Entrance Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, Eurasien-Abteilung
Lecturer
Jürgen Renn
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Presentation and Discussion
Werkstattgespräch: Hunger. Perspektiven aus der Medzingeschichte, Kunst und Politik
Time
11/30/2017
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal, Haus Potsdamer Straße
Organizers
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Lecturer
Barbara Gronau, Ulrike Thoms and Michael Windfuhr
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Lecture
The Future of Expert Knowledge
Time
11/30/2017
18:00
Location
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin, für Sozialforschung gGmbH, Reichpietschufer 50, 10785 Berlin-Tiergarten, Room A300
Organizers
Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung
Lecturer
Andrew Abbott (University of Chicago)
Remarks
The conjuncture of a number of historical forces, operating at several different time scales, conspires to create a crisis in expert knowledge and in “knowing” more broadly. These forces include unidirectional phenomena like the social democratization of education, the development of automated forms of knowing, the imposition of neoliberal management on the world of expertise, and the drift away from discursive towards imagistic embodiments of knowledge. But it also involves cyclical phenomena like the maturation of the twentieth century knowledge paradigm and the demographic transition in expert populations. In this talk Professor Abbott enumerates and relates these various historical rhythms and speculates on the possible futures of expertise. Andrew Abbott is the Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. Abbott’s major research interests lie in the sociology of occupations, professions, and work, the sociology of culture and knowledge, and social theory. Abbott also has longstanding interests in methods, heuristics, and the philosophy and practice of sociology. The event will be held in English with no translation into German. The WZB provides child care during the lecture. Please respond by November 17, 2017 to Friederike Theilen-Kosch: friederike.theilen-kosch@wzb.eu Our event location is wheelchair-accessible. If you need support, please let Friederike Theilen-Kosch know. Please register with Antonia Kroll by November 23.
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Ringvorlesung Digital Humanities
Simulating dramatic networks
Time
11/29/2017
19:00 - 22:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Remarks
Digital Humanities ist eine Sammelbezeichnung für computergestützte Methoden und Praktiken in den Geisteswissenschaften, die es sowohl ermöglichen, alte Forschungsfragen auf neue Weise zu bearbeiten, als auch neue Ansätze in den Geisteswissenschaften zu verfolgen. Die Ringvorlesung thematisiert die voranschreitende digitale Transformation der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften und gibt einen Überblick über die Digital Humanities geben.
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Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Königreich der Schmetterlinge: Insektenkörper aus Formosa in Wissenschaft und Kunstgewerbe im frühen 20. Jahrhundert
Time
11/29/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Kerstin Pannhorst (HU Berlin/MPI für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin)
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Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Colonial Techniques
Time
11/28/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Shehab Ismail
Remarks
Commentator: On Barak (re:work / Tel Aviv University)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
KLAS: Knowledge Link through Art and Science
Time
11/27/2017 - 11/28/2017
16:30 - 21:00
Location
Main hall of the Max Planck Campus Am Mühlenberg 11 14476 Potsdam-Golm
Organizers
Max Planck Gesellschaft, Schering Stiftung
Remarks
This workshop is an opportunity to bring together scholars and practitioners to jointly discuss and reflect on contents, approaches and methodologies that draw the link between synthetic biology and artistic research and how those can synergically interact by mutually interrogating and reconsidering their methodologies and modes of operation in an Artist in Residence program like KLAS. In this workshop we are particularly interested in discussions and perspectives that explore how different institutions, organizations and interest groups with relevant expertise and knowledge of research, innovation and education address contemporary challenges of future developments in and beyond their respective knowledge silos. Please register.
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Kolloquium Antike Medizin
Pulse Theory in Byzantium
Time
11/27/2017
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Main building, room 3053 Unter den Linden 6 10099 Berlin
Organizers
SFB 980 "Episteme in Bewegung"
Lecturer
Petros Bouras-Vallianatos (Kings College London)
Remarks
This seminar deals with theories of the pulse in Byzantine medical literature. By looking at a wide range of authors from the sixth to the fifteenth century, it aims to show how ancient theories were received and developed throughout the Byzantine period. Particular attention will also be given to a previously unpublished late Byzantine text on the subject. Please register by mail to Dr. Chiara Thumiger.
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Political Epistemology Talk
Creative Commensuration: the Political Stakes of the History of Science
Time
11/23/2017
14:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
MPIWG
Lecturer
Andrea Westermann (GHI West, Washington DC)
Links
tneuendorf@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Manie Manierismus
Time
11/22/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Jost Philipp Klenner (Berlin)
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Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Recursive Archive: The Inadequacy of ‘Knowability’ in Colonial India.
Time
11/21/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko Hardenberg
Lecturer
Anindita Nag
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Ringvorlesung Digital Humanities
„Selbstbestimmung in der vernetzten Gesellschaft“ – Die interdisziplinären Forschungsprogramme des neu gegründeten Deutschen Internet Instituts
Time
11/21/2017
18:00 - 21:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Remarks
Digital Humanities ist eine Sammelbezeichnung für computergestützte Methoden und Praktiken in den Geisteswissenschaften, die es sowohl ermöglichen, alte Forschungsfragen auf neue Weise zu bearbeiten, als auch neue Ansätze in den Geisteswissenschaften zu verfolgen. Die Ringvorlesung thematisiert die voranschreitende digitale Transformation der Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften und gibt einen Überblick über die Digital Humanities geben.
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Lecture Series “'Identität‘ – Probleme eines Konzepts und seine Entstehungsgeschichte”
Erzählte Gemeinschaften. Völker, Rassen und Nationen als Handlungsträger der europäischen Historiographie des 19. und frühen 20. Jahrhunderts
Time
11/21/2017
18:15 - 20:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, ‘Holzlaube’, Fabeckstr. 23–25, Room -1.2009
Lecturer
Felix Wiedemann (Freie Universität Berlin)
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Öffentliche Abendveranstaltung
„In unserem Säkul ist alles Publik, Sünden wie Briefe“ – Jean Pauls Briefwechsel gedruckt und digital
Time
11/20/2017
18:00 - 22:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Remarks
Anfang 2017 wurde die historisch-kritische Ausgabe der Korrespondenz Jean Pauls fertig. Aus diesem Anlass stellen wir einige der Briefe in einer Lesung vor, verfolgen, welche neuen Welten Jean Pauls Briefe eröffnen, wie digitale Editionen dabei helfen und was die Digital Humanities auf diesem Feld erbringen. Es sprechen Markus Bernauer, Matthias Boenig, Frederike Neuber, Norbert Miller und Markus Schnöpf.
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Discussion
Plato’s Cave Revisited: A Conversation about Education Today
Time
11/20/2017
19:00
Location
Barenboim-Said Akademie (Französische Straße 33, 10117 Berlin)
Organizers
Cooperation of Bard College Berlin and the Barenboim-Said Academy
Lecturer
Lorrain Daston et al.
Remarks
No registration required
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Akademievorlesung „Gentechnologien damals, heute und morgen“
Willkommen in Utopia. Zukunftsszenarien der Gentechnologien
Time
11/16/2017
18:00 - 21:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Remarks
Mit der Akademievorlesung zieht die Interdisziplinare Arbeitsgruppe „Gentechnologiebericht“ 16 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung Bilanz anlässlich eines heute wie damals höchst umstrittenen und viel diskutierten Forschungsbereichs. In Expertenbeiträgen und Podiumsdiskussionen werden die Gentechnologien dabei sowohl in ihrer historischen und zukünftigen Entwicklung als auch in ihrer aktuellen gesellschafts- und forschungspolitischen Relevanz eingeordnet.
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Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Wahrheitstechnologien. Die wissenschaftliche Ermittlung der Wahrheit von Aussagen: Polizei, Psychologie, juristischer Bereich, 1900–1945
Time
11/15/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Laurens Schlicht (HU Berlin)
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Institute’s Colloquium 2017/2018
Popular Medicine in Antiquity
Time
11/14/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
William Harris, Columbia University, USA
Links
tneuendorf@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Kinesis – Thinking About Motion in Classical Greece
Time
11/10/2017 - 11/11/2017
Location
Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10115 Berlin
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Akademievorlesung „Gentechnologien damals, heute und morgen“
Wie werden Gentechnologien kontrolliert? Rechtliche, ethische und interdisziplinäre Einbettung der Forschung
Time
11/09/2017
18:00 - 21:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Remarks
Mit der Akademievorlesung zieht die Interdisziplinare Arbeitsgruppe „Gentechnologiebericht“ 16 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung Bilanz anlässlich eines heute wie damals höchst umstrittenen und viel diskutierten Forschungsbereichs. In Expertenbeiträgen und Podiumsdiskussionen werden die Gentechnologien dabei sowohl in ihrer historischen und zukünftigen Entwicklung als auch in ihrer aktuellen gesellschafts- und forschungspolitischen Relevanz eingeordnet.
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Colloquium
Speed Listening by Blind Readers and the History of Audio Time Compression
Time
11/08/2017
18:00
Location
Medientheater, Medienwissenschaft, Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics” in cooperation with the department for media studies of Humboldt University of Berlin
Lecturer
Mara Mills
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Department III
Hearing Objectified: (Re)producing Noise through Decibel Measurements and Audio Recordings under Taiwan’s Noise Management System
Time
11/07/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III & MPRG “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”, WilkoHardenberg
Lecturer
Jennifer Hsieh
Remarks
Commentator: Andrea Bohlman (Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin / University of North Carolina) Please register with Wilko Hardenberg.
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Practical geometry in sixteenth-century France
Time
11/06/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3013
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle, Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Lecturer
Angela Axworthy (TU Berlin)
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Digital-Humanities-Kolloquium
Digital-Humanities-Kolloquium
Time
11/03/2017
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Remarks
Die „Digital Humanities“ sind eine der wichtigsten Entwicklungen im Bereich der Geisteswissenschaften in den letzten Jahren. Um den Dialog zu diesem Thema weiter zu intensivieren, organisieren die TELOTA-Initiative und das Zentrum Sprache der BBAW unterstützt vom Forschungsverbund if|DH|b ein monatliches Digital-Humanities-Kolloquium.
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Akademievorlesung „Gentechnologien damals, heute und morgen“
Nutzen und Risikowahrnehmung der Gentechnologien. Ein kritischer Rückblick
Time
11/02/2017
18:00 - 21:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Remarks
Mit der Akademievorlesung zieht die Interdisziplinare Arbeitsgruppe „Gentechnologiebericht“ 16 Jahre nach ihrer Gründung Bilanz anlässlich eines heute wie damals höchst umstrittenen und viel diskutierten Forschungsbereichs. In Expertenbeiträgen und Podiumsdiskussionen werden die Gentechnologien dabei sowohl in ihrer historischen und zukünftigen Entwicklung als auch in ihrer aktuellen gesellschafts- und forschungspolitischen Relevanz eingeordnet.
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Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Diagrams with Frames: The Birth of the Newtonian Vision of Light
Time
10/30/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3013
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle, Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Lecturer
Gábor Á. Zemplén (Budapest/Weimar)
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BabMed Seminar
Concepts of the Female Body in Mesopotamian Medical Texts
Time
10/26/2017
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Centre National de la Récherche Scientifique, Ivry sur Seine CNRS building, 27 rue Paul Bert (Porte de Choisy/Porte d'Ivry subway station) or by distance through video-conference (registration required).
Lecturer
Ulrike Steinert (FU Berlin)
Remarks
All the persons who are interested in attending the session (either in Ivry sur Seine or through video-conference) are welcome for free but should register by e-mail beforehand.
Links
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babm ...
Evening Lecture
Time-Uncritical Media. Stretching and Shrinking Sound in the 1940s
Time
10/25/2017
18:00
Location
Medientheater, Medienwissenschaft, Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics” in cooperation with the department for media studies of Humboldt University of Berlin
Lecturer
Jonathan Sterne (McGill University)
Links
Colloquium for the History of Knowledge—Winterterm 2017/18
Materialising Historical Knowledge. Historical Objects and Beda Dudík’s Research Practises in Sweden, Italy, and the Austrian Empire 1851–1878.
Time
10/25/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191–193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Emma Hagström Molin (Uppsala/HU Berlin)
Links
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Measuring Nature
Time
10/24/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko von Hardenberg
Lecturer
Carolin F. Roeder
Remarks
Commentator: Johannes Zechner (Freie Universität Berlin)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
The Weight of Things: Quantification of Matter and the Exchange of Technical and Learned Knowledge in Early Modern Europe
Time
10/23/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 3013
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle, Institut für Philosophie, Literatur-, Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Lecturer
Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin)
Links
Talk
Political Epistemology
Time
10/17/2017
14:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
MPIWG, Dept. I & III
Lecturer
Nicole Karafyllis (Technische Universität Braunschweig)
Links
office_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Talk
Rethinking the Darwinian Revolution
Time
10/16/2017
11:00 - 12:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Janet Browne
Links
schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Anthropocene Lecture
The Historians’ Task in the Age of the Anthropocene: Finding Hope in Japan?
Time
10/12/2017
19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Haus der Kulturen der Welt in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies and the MPIWG
Lecturer
Julia Adeney Thomas (University Notre Dame)
Links
Talk
Lieutenant Riou Saves the Guardian: Navigating Theory and Experience on the High Seas
Time
10/12/2017
14:00 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
Department III, Wilko von Hardenberg
Lecturer
Margaret Schotte (York University)
Remarks
This is an open talk, and there is no need to register (even if space is limited), but in case of questions you are welcome to contact Wilko von Hardenberg.
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Winter 2017-2018 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Sensing the Limits of the World
Time
10/10/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Lecturer
David Trippett
Remarks
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Measuring Nature
Time
10/10/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko von Hardenberg
Lecturer
Alexis Lycas
Remarks
Commentator: Olivier Defaux (MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Size Matters – Extra-Large Projects in the Ancient World
Time
10/09/2017 - 10/11/2017
09:00 - 13:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Topoi: Federico Buccellati, Anton Gass, Felix Levenson, Sylva van der Heyden
Remarks
The Discussion forum “Size Matters: XXL Projects in the Ancient World”, organized by the Research Group (B-2) XXL – Monumentalized Knowledge: Extra-Large Projects in Ancient Civilizations, examines building projects and other major construction tasks, looking in particular at their social signifi cance within ancient societies as seen through multi- and inter-disciplinary research approaches. In discussion sessions the results of the research group will be presented as well as new perspectives from other scholars. In particular, the social signifi cance of large-scale projects and their internal and external impact will be considered. Did major construction projects have a stabilizing e ect on society? How much power, work and energy was actually needed? Does big mean monumental automatically? These are just some of the questions that will be raised in the “Size Matters: XXL Projects in the Ancient World” forum.
Links
Kosmos Workshop
Ideas in Print. Journalistic Forms in Intellectual History
Time
10/05/2017 - 10/06/2017
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, R2249A
Lecturer
Peter Mandler (Cambridge), Susanne Schmidt (Cambridge), Hansjakob Ziemer (Berlin), Robert Zwarg (Marbach), Erika Lorraine Milam (Princeton), Nick Hopwood (Cambridge), Moritz Neuffer (Berlin), Morten Paul (Konstanz), Marcel Lepper (Marbach), Stefan Collini (Cambridge), Sophie Junge (Zürich), Rolf Lindner (Berlin), Anke te Heesen (Berlin), Katharina Kreuzpaintner (Berlin)
Links
https://www.projekte.hu-berlin.de/de/ide ...
Workshop
Physics and Metaphysics of the Balance
Time
10/05/2017 - 10/07/2017
Location
Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Remarks
Due to the limited capacity of the venue, registration is asked for under buettner@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/43202/ ...
Colloquium “Premodern Conversations”
Spirits Coming Alive: The Subtle Alchemy of Francis Bacon’s Sylva Sylvarum
Time
09/28/2017
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
Maria Avxentevskaya, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Dana Jalobeanu
Links
mavxentevskaya@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Department III
Thematic Cluster: Measuring Nature
Time
09/26/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III, Wilko von Hardenberg
Lecturer
Wilko Graf von Hardenberg
Remarks
Commentator: Dagmar Schäfer (MPIWG)
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Medical Commentaries and Comment(aries) on Medicine
Time
09/26/2017 - 09/27/2017
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
Markham J. Geller, Glenn W. Most, Karine Chemla and Lorraine Daston
Lecturer
Heinrich v. Staden (Princeton), Paul U. Unschuld (Charité Berlin), Nils P. Heeßel (Marburg), Glenn W. Most (Pisa), Vivian Nutton (UCL London), Enrique Jiménez (Madrid), Klaus Wagensonner (Yale), Henry Stadhouders (Utrecht) and Giulia Ecca (BBAW Berlin)
Remarks
The event is open to outside visitors, if you like to attend, please register with the BabMed office before September 25, 2017: babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de Please note that there are video and audio recordings during the conference, as well as photographic images taken. All documentation footage, either in part or at full lengths, is also to be made available via both BabMed and MPIWG media archives for internal as well as public accessibility. Please let us know in case you object to any images made publicly accessible.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Anthropocene Lectures
Historians and the Anthropocene: A Discipline and an Interdisciplinary Concept
Time
09/21/2017
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, Berlin 14195, Germany, Main Conference Hall
Lecturer
John McNeill (Georgetown University)
Colloquium Winter 2017-2018 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
The Unnatural Attitude in Weimar Musical Thought
Time
09/12/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Lecturer
Ben Steege
Remarks
For registration and the pre-circulated paper please contact officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Political Epistemology IV
Time
09/08/2017
14:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
MPIWG, Dept. I & III
Lecturer
Angelo Cattaneo (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Georg Töpfer (Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin)
Links
office_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lange Nacht der Museen
Time
08/19/2017
18:00 - 02:00
Location
at various places in Berlin
Remarks
Entrance fee is 12€ until August 7, afterwards 18€.
Links
https://www.lange-nacht-der-museen.de/de ...
Workshop
Estimated Truths. Water, Science, and the Politics of Approximation
Time
08/16/2017 - 08/17/2017
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Working Group “Art of Judgement” (Dept. III)
Remarks
You will find the call for papers on the working group’s website.
Links
whardenberg@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Literary and Discursive Framing of Medical Knowledge in Antiquity
Time
08/09/2017 - 08/11/2017
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 24 and Unter den Linden 6
Lecturer
Lindsey A. Askin, Alexander Dubrau, Markham Geller, Tanja Hidde, Lennart Lehmhaus, Loubna Ayeb, Mara Rescio, Miruna Belea, Susan Holman, Emunah Levy, Annette Weissenrieder, Jimmy Daccache, Ida Fröhlich, Monika Amsler, Shulamit Shinnar
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Conference
Pictures and Texts—Pictures as Text: Iconicity and Indexicality in Graphic Communication
Time
07/26/2017 - 07/28/2017
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Senatssaal, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin
Remarks
Please register with Lisa Seelau.
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/35847/ ...
Conference
Medieval Texts in Transit
Time
07/21/2017 - 07/22/2017
Location
Villa of the SFB “Episteme in Bewegung,” Meeting Room, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung” in cooperation with Miriam Edlich-Muth (Freie Universität Berlin) and the Centre for Medieval Literature (Universities Odense and York)
Remarks
Please register
Links
Seminar
Philosophy in Its Ancient Beginnings: On the Conceptualisation, Criticism and Justification of Philosophy in Antiquity
Time
07/21/2017 - 07/23/2017
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hannoversche Straße 6, room 1.03
Lecturer
Glenn W. Most (SNS Pisa/University of Chicago), Matthias Perkams (Universität Jena), John Sellars (King’s College London), Marina McCoy (Boston College), Monte Ransome Johnson (UC San Diego)
Links
https://ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de/ ...
https://ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de/ ...
Evening Talk
Collecting the World. Hans Sloane and the Origins of the British Museum
Time
07/18/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Festsaal (Haus 1), Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
The event is part of the research project “Dinosaurs in Berlin. Brachiosaurus brancai as political, scientific and popular icon”. In cooperation with the project “Mobile Objects”, Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung.
Lecturer
James Delbourgo
Remarks
In 1759 the British Museum opened its doors for the first time – the first free national public museum in the world. But how did it come into being? This talk is based on a new biography of its founder Hans Sloane, which recounts the story behind the museum’s creation. Chair: Anke te Heesen Admission free. Please register.
Links
12th Scholars’ Forum
Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
Time
07/14/2017
10:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Freie Universität Berlin
Remarks
For more information and registration, please contact Lukas Regeler.
Links
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Heilberuf als imitatio dei – der jüdische Ba’al Schem
Time
07/13/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Karl E. Grözinger (Universität Potsdam/Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Political Epistemology Talk
The Restless Clock
Time
07/13/2017
13:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science,Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
MPIWG, Dept. I & III
Lecturer
Jessica Riskin (Stanford University)
Links
office_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
CMG-Lecture on ancient medicine 2017
Hippokrates – Der Arzt in der Verantwortung
Time
07/13/2017
18:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Lecturer
Hellmut Flashar (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München)
Links
https://www2.bbaw.de/anmeldung-hippokrat ...
Colloquium Summer 2017 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
The Sonic Object—Sound and Listening in the Legal Imagination
Time
07/11/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminarraum
Organizers
Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Veit Erlmann, University of Texas at Austin
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Forschungskolloquium Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Meßbarmachen
Time
07/10/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 2038
Lecturer
Kohei Suzuki (TU Berlin)
Links
Workshop
The Central Books of Aristotle’s ‘Topics’
Time
07/07/2017 - 07/08/2017
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hannoversche Straße 6, room 1.03
Lecturer
Laura Castelli (LMU Munich), Marja-Liisa Kakkuri-Knuuttila (University of Helsinki), Colin King (Providence College), Marko Malink (New York University), Mika Perälä (University of Helsinki), Christof Rapp (LMU Munich), Miira Tuominen (University of Jyväskylä)
Links
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/en/ ...
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
„Gesund oder perfekt?“ – Optimierung als Matrix von Religion und Säkularismus
Time
07/06/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Alexandra Grieser (Trinity College, Dublin)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
On the Parallelism between Big Data and Divinatory Semantic
Time
07/04/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Elena Esposito, Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Links
Elena Esposito’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Talk
Wieder salonfähig? Geschichte und Begriff der Rasse in den Wissenschaften
Time
07/04/2017
19:00
Location
Einstein Forum, Am Neuen Markt 7, 14467 Potsdam
Organizers
Einstein Forum
Lecturer
Dr. Markus Messling (Stellvertretender Direktor, Centre Marc Bloch, Berlin), Dr. Georg Toepfer (Leiter des Forschungsschwerpunkts Lebenswissen, Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Berlin)
Links
http://www.einsteinforum.de/veranstaltun ...
Conference
Berlin – Sudan: The history of Berlin-based research on Northeast Africa. Change, continuity and scientific ‘Zeitgeist’ from the Kingdom of Prussia until the end of the GDR
Time
06/30/2017 - 07/01/2017
14:00 - 18:30
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10117 Berlin, Main Building, Room 2091/92 (West Wing)
Organizers
Cornelia Kleinitz, Thomas Gertzen, Alexandra Verbovsek, Frank Kammerzell
Remarks
Today, various institutional archives at Humboldt-Universität, the BBAW, the German Archaeological Institute and elsewhere, some of which have only recently started to become accessible, document the work of the Prussian and GDR-researchers in Sudan between political and scientific ideals and realities. The Berlin-based research tradition in Sudan and the changes of scientific ‘Zeitgeist’, due to the upheavals of German and international history until the end of the GDR, are the subject of the conference. Please register.
Links
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Vererbungswissenschaft als Einblick in die Ordnung der Schöpfung: Theologische Begründung der Eugenik in der Zwischenkriegszeit
Time
06/29/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Sabine Schleiermacher (Charité Berlin)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
ZEIT Science Forum
Defend the Enlightenment! Science in a Post-Truth Age
Time
06/28/2017
19:00
Location
Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Science and Humanities, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Die ZEIT, ZEIT-Stiftung, Deutschlandfunk, BBAW, Veranstaltungsforum Holtzbrinck Publishing Group
Lecturer
Lorraine Daston, Sabine Kunst, Stefan Rahmstorf, Peter Strohschneider, Johannes Vogel, Ulrich Blumenthal, Andreas Sentker
Remarks
Admission free - Registration needed In many countries researchers are under pressure. When research generates uncomfortable insights it is often denied and countered with "alternative facts". The research community is denigrated as being part of the establishment, which argues only in its own interest. Experts are scolded, their budgets cut. Not only in the US, where Donald Trump denies the human causes of global warming. "The post-factual national populism that is currently haunting the world could become a threat to our civilization," warns the German climatologist Hans Joachim Schellnhuber. What has brought about this crisis of trust? How does the public perceive of science? And what conclusion do scientists have to draw?
Links
Colloquium Summer 2017 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Opelt’s Siren and Music Theory circa 1830
Time
06/27/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Alexander Rehding (Harvard University)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Summer 2017 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”, Evening Lecture
“Don’t Write! Just Speak!” Personal Audio Postcards 1905–1907: Rediscovering a Forgotten Chapter of the Media Archaeology of Voice Mail
Time
06/26/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
MPIWG, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Tom Levin (Princeton University)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Forschungskolloquium Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Denken mit Artefakten: Materielles Wissen und Lernen im Museum
Time
06/26/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 2051
Lecturer
Klaus Staubermann (Edinburgh)
Links
Talk
Warum Boeckhs Encyklopädie lesen?
Time
06/26/2017
18:30
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, Senatssaal, 10117 Berlin
Lecturer
Constanze Güthenke (Oxford)
Links
https://www.antikezentrum.hu-berlin.de/d ...
https://www.antikezentrum.hu-berlin.de/d ...
Workshop
Geschichte in Anekdoten – Wissenstransfer in Suetons Kaiserviten
Time
06/23/2017 - 06/24/2017
Location
Villa of the SFB "Episteme in Bewegung," Meeting Room, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung” / B07 “Die Anekdote als Medium des Wissenstransfers”
Lecturer
Jürgen Paul Schwindt, Chiara Cavazzani, Maximilian Haas, Alexander Arweiler
Remarks
Please register
Links
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Heilung in der Klostermedizin – von der Regula benedicti des Benedikt von Nursia bis zu Hildegard von Bingen
Time
06/22/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Johannes G. Mayer (Universität Würzburg)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Conference
Aristotelianism and Natural Knowledge at Early-Modern Protestant Universities
Time
06/21/2017 - 06/23/2017
Location
Villa of the SFB 980 (Schwendenerstr. 8, 14195 Berlin) and MPIWG (Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin)
Organizers
Volkhard Wels and Pietro D. Omodeo
Remarks
Please register to take part.
Links
protestant_aristotelianism@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium
Aristotle and the Argument of Physics I
Time
06/21/2017
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, “Rostlaube,” Room L 115, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Andrea Falcon (Concordia University, Montreal)
Links
http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berl ...
Discussion
Forms of Life
Time
06/20/2017
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 10119 Berlin
Organizers
diffrakt | centre for theoretical periphery, in cooperation with the Institut Français, Francfort en français, and the ICI Berlin
Lecturer
Emanuele Coccia, Frédéric Worms
Remarks
Life forces thought, it poses problems and constitutes, for philosophy, both a condition and an object. Whether framed through questions of epistemology and the philosophy of science, questions of ethics, of politics, of technics, of aesthetics or of metaphysics, conceptions of life and the living, while inherently and invariably transdisciplinary, remain at the core of philosophical thinking today. Accordingly, this second session in the series dis:positions gathers three protagonists of a moment du vivant within contemporary French philosophy, provoking a resolutely undisciplined conversation, a modulation of philosophy across all domains of knowledge.
Links
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
Evening Talk and Screening: Forgotten Paths of Empire Firestone and the Promise of Liberia
Time
06/19/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Gregg Mitman, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Links
Gregg Mitman’s personal website
Forschungskolloquium Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Wissen über Berg und Wald: Deutsch-amerikanische Transferpraktiken in den modernen Montan- und Forstwissenschaften (1860–1960) – ein Projektbericht
Time
06/19/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 2038
Lecturer
Swen Steinberg (TU Dresden)
Links
Gastvortrag im Rahmen der Veranstaltungsreihe WissensFragen
Die Umschrift des Todes – Zur ‚Realpräsenz‘ der Zeichen in Vergils Aeneis
Time
06/16/2017
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Seminar Room, SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 "Episteme in Bewegung"
Lecturer
Jürgen Paul Schwindt
Remarks
Der Vortrag präsentiert einen Ausschnitt aus neueren Heidelberger Untersuchungen zur Epistemologie des augusteischen Zeitalters. In intensiver Lektüre der überlieferten Texte erschließen sich die Koordinaten eines Denkens, das mit den herkömmlichen Interpretationen der „Klassischen Literatur“ nicht immer in Übereinstimmung zu bringen ist. {...} Der Vortrag versteht sich als Beitrag zur Aufhellung der Wissensordnung(en) eines Textes, der sich ganz von den Rändern her entwirft und zur Darstellung bringt. Aufgrund der begrenzten Platzzahl bitten wir Nicht-SFB-Mitglieder um Anmeldung
Links
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Religion und Medizin im Feld alternativer Religiosität der Gegenwart
Time
06/15/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Dorothea Lüddeckens (Universität Zürich)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Lecture
Graeco-Egyptian Alchemy Between Byzantium and the East
Time
06/14/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Lecture Hall of the Kunstgewerbemuseum im Kulturforum, Matthäikirchplatz, 10785 Berlin
Lecturer
Matteo Martelli
Remarks
In my paper I will give a general introduction to the origins and early developments of alchemy in the Graeco-Roman Egypt. On the one hand, I will discuss its possible Near-Eastern background, which is often evocated in the mythical narratives that ancient texts include about the discovery of the alchemical art. On the other hand, I will briefly present the reception of the earliest works on alchemy in Byzantium as well as in the Syriac and Arabic traditions.
Links
Festive Event
Leibniztag 2017
Time
06/10/2017
10:00 - 13:00
Location
BBAW, Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Lecturer
Ottmar Ette, PianoDuo Takahashi | Lehmann
Remarks
Please register
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2017/ ...
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Lepra in der Frühen Neuzeit: Vom Aus-setzen und Stadt-machen
Time
06/08/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Volker Hess (Charité Berlin)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Book Presentation
Ressourcenmobilisierung. Wissenschaftspolitik und Forschungspraxis im NS-Herrschaftssystem
Time
06/06/2017
19:00
Location
Topografie des Terrors Auditorium, Niederkirchnerstraße 8, Berlin-Kreuzberg
Organizers
Topography of Terror Foundation in cooperation with the MPIWG
Lecturer
Sören Flachowsky, Rüdiger Hachtmann, Florian Schmaltz
Remarks
Admission free
Links
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Medizin im Christlichen Imperium Romanum – Erbe und Widerspruch
Time
06/01/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Johannes Niehoff-Panagiotidis (FU Berlin)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
The Scientific Journal: A Political History
Time
05/30/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Alex Csiszar, Harvard University, USA
Links
Alex Csiszar’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Einstein Forum Lecture
On Gravitational Waves
Time
05/23/2017
19:00
Location
Einstein Forum, Am Neuen Markt 7, 14467 Potsdam
Lecturer
Alessandra Buonanno (MPI for gravitational physics, Potsdam), Thomas Naumann (DESY, Zeuthen)
Links
http://www.einsteinforum.de/ ...
Forschungskolloquium Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Pflanzengeographie bei Engler
Time
05/22/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 2051
Lecturer
Martin Hähnel (MA GKWT)
Links
Lecture Series “Religion versus Medizin?”
Scientific Thought vs. Traditional Beliefs in Antiquity and Islam—a Discussion.
Time
05/18/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Dimitri Gutas (Yale University/Graduate School of Muslim Cultures, FU Berlin)
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Workshop
Erzählung und Argument - Formen impliziter Syllogistik in vormoderner Literatur und Philosophie
Time
05/18/2017 - 05/19/2017
09:30 - 17:30
Location
Sitzungsraum der SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 Episteme in Bewegung
Remarks
Number of seats is limited. Non SFB members are asked to register. Workshop des gräzistischen Teilprojekts "Prozesse der Traditionsbildung in der De interpretatione-Kommentierung der Spätantike" (Leitung: Prof. Dr. G. Uhlmann) Der Workshop geht von dem Befund aus, dass Aristoteles in der Rhetorik mit dem Enthymem eine Form von Syllogismen explizit einführt, die sich dadurch auszeichnen, dass sie keine syllogistische Form im Sinne der Analytica Priora haben. Stattdessen arbeiten sie mit weniger Prämissen und damit, bestimmte Voraussetzungen für die Gültigkeit des Arguments nicht explizit zu machen. In diesem Sinn sucht der Workshop nach Formen impliziter Syllogistik und versucht damit, die Reichweite dieser Technik über die rationale Wissenschaftstheorie hinaus auszuloten. Insbesondere die Möglichkeit, implizite, vom Rezipienten zu ergänzende syllogistische Strukturen aufzufinden, ist dabei von Interesse. Dabei stehen nicht nur philosophische Texte im Fokus, sondern daneben und gleichberechtigt auch rhetorische und narrativ-literarische Werke. Exemplarisch sollen dabei solche Texte beleuchtet werden, die als philosophische oder philosophisch-propädeutische Narrative (in Viten oder Briefen) eine hybride Form jenseits rein rational-argumentierender oder rein-narrativ-veranschaulichender Texte besitzen. Wir wollen fragen, welche Funktionen verschiedene narrative Strategien in philosophischen und in dichterischen Texten besitzen und in welchem Verhältnis sie zu explizit und implizit syllogistischen Argumentationsweisen stehen. Besonderes Augenmerk soll dabei die Frage erhalten, wie veranschaulichende Strategien sich zu rational argumentierenden verhalten und welche Textsorten oder Strategien implizit syllogistische Argumentationsweisen favorisieren. In dem Workshop soll der historische Fokus die Zeiträume von Antike, Mittelalter und Früher Neuzeit umfassen und verschiedene exemplarische Fallstudien aufeinander beziehen.
Links
Lecture
Anthropocene Lecture: McKenzie Wark
Time
05/18/2017
19:00
Location
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Organizers
Haus der Kulturen der Welt in cooperation with the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies and the MPIWG
Lecturer
McKenzie Wark
Remarks
How can we radically reconceptualize the Anthropocene, the geological epoch in which humanity has become a determining factor in the planet’s further evolution? In the framework of the Anthropocene Lectures, McKenzie Wark presents his critical theory of the relation between labor and nature. admission free
Links
Colloquium TOPOI & BerGSAS
Fifth public doctoral colloquium
Time
05/16/2017 - 05/19/2017
Location
Humboldt Graduate School, Luisenstraße 56, 10117 Berlin, Raum 144 & Einstein Center Chronoi, Otto-von-Simson Str. 7, 14195 Berlin, Seminarraum EG
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/36874/ ...
25. Karl-Abraham-Vorlesung
Karl Abraham und sein Platz in der Geschichte der Psychoanalyse
Time
05/14/2017
11:00
Location
ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8, 10119 Berlin
Lecturer
Anna Bentinck van Schonheeten
Remarks
Entrance10 €, reduced 5 €
Links
https://www.ici-berlin.org/wp-content/up ...
Studientag
Die Materialität der Wissensordnungen und die Episteme der Zeichnung
Time
05/12/2017 - 05/13/2017
Location
Villa of the SFB “Episteme in Bewegung,” Conference Room, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Project B04 (part of the SFB 980), DFG project “Die Materialität der Wissensordnungen und die Episteme der Zeichnung. Die Zeichnungsalben des Sebastiano Resta”
Lecturer
Iris Brahms, Heiko Damm, Annkatrin Kaul, Elisabeth Oy-Marra, Claudia Reufer, Irina Schmiedel
Remarks
Registration necessary
Links
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Sachmetpriester, Skorpionsbeschwörer und Ärzte. Religion und Medizin im Alten Ägypten.
Time
05/11/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Alexandra von Lieven (FU Berlin)
Remarks
Religion und Medizin sind in der europäischen Kulturgeschichte auf vielfältige Weise mit einander verbunden. Die Ringvorlesung geht dieser wechselseitigen Verwiesenheit in einer wissensgeschichtlichen Tour d’Horizon nach.
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Lecture Series information+visualization
Dialogues with Data: Multisensory Encounters with Objects, Texts, and Images
Time
05/11/2017
16:00 - 17:30
Location
Fachhochschule Potsdam, Lecture Hall in Haus D Kiepenheuerallee 5, 14469 Potsdam
Lecturer
Matthew Battles, Jessica Yurkofsky, Sarah Newman (metaLAB / Harvard)
Remarks
As scholars and curators turn to technological means for exploring the collections of libraries, archives, and museums, they increasingly turn to data visualization to express relations and facilitate search and discovery. At the same time, such institutions also offer ready typologies for encountering, interacting with, and discovering texts and objects. The gallery, the reading room, the performance space—to name just three—offer not only spaces, but a rich array of social forms and experiences. How can data visualization be brought into dialogue with the senses; with interaction, with civic engagement? Taking a series of recent projects as cases, we'll discuss how metaLAB explores data-driven creative works that are critical, multisensory, and grounded in dialogic encounter.
Links
Colloquium Summer 2017 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
From Pillow-Talk with the State to Huxley’s Loudspeaker: The Dystopian Sounds of Control during the Cold War
Time
05/09/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Alexandra Hui, Mississippi State University
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture
König Kroisos und der alte Orient Wer erfand die Trennung von Gold und Silber durch Zementation?
Time
05/09/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster Topoi
Lecturer
Kristin Kleber
Links
Block Seminar
The Arabic Tradition of Galen’s On Simple Drugs
Time
05/05/2017
10:00 - 17:00
Location
FU Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin, Office Ragetti
Remarks
This work of Galen represents one of the mile stones and reference works of pre-modern pharmacology. Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq produced a complete and highly refined Arabic translation, as coronation of a long lasting interest in this work. The Arabic text, however, is not merely a collateral transmission of the Greek original. This seminar will show the students the independent development of the Arabic tradition, the peculiarities of the manuscript witnesses, and the editorial approach to this rich text. This historical and textual analysis aim at showing to its full extent how the richness and complexity of the Arabic version of Galen’s On Simple Drugs is the best contribution that can be offered for a deeper understanding of the Greek Galen.
Links
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/semi ...
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
Who Gets the Credit? The Production of the Future under Modern Capitalism
Time
05/02/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Timothy Mitchell, Columbia University, USA
Links
Timothy Mitchell’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Werkstattgespräch
Kometen zwischen Wunderzeichen, Astrologie und Physik
Time
04/27/2017
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Conference Room 4, House Unter den Linden, 10117 Berlin. Meeting Point: Unter den Linden (Entrance Dorotheenstraße 27), Rotunde
Organizers
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
Lecturer
Doris Gruber
Links
Lecture Series “Wissensdarstellungen - Darstellungswissen”
Bücher und Bilder: Medien der (divina) commedia und ihre Evidenzen
Time
04/26/2017
18:15
Location
SFB-Villa, Meeting Room, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Anne Eusterschulte, Claudia Reufer
Lecturer
Friederike Wille
Remarks
Friederike Wille untersucht in ihrem Forschungsprojekt die je unterschiedlichen, komplexen Vernetzungen von literarischem Text, Bild und Kommentar in den Manuskripten der Commedia im 14. und 15. Jahrhundert. Nicht nur die Topologien der Seiten und Aspekte der mise en page (Rahmen, Ornament, Initialen, Schriftspiegel, Bilder) sondern auch das Buch in seiner Materialität und Funktion, sowie seine medialen Bedingungen wie der Akt des Blätterns werden in den Blick genommen. Wesentlich ist außerdem die Analyse der je spezifischen Verknüpfung mit Diskursen und Figurationen des Jenseits außerhalb des Buches. Evidentiaerscheint dabei als zentrale Kategorie, weil sich in ihr Rhetorik, Wissensordnung und Weltordnung bündeln, deren Kohärenz Dante in seinem Text postuliert und inszeniert. Die Spezifik von bebilderten Büchern in ihrer ästhetisch wirksamen Verschränkung von Lesbar- und Sichtbarmachung ist im Fall der Commedia-Manuskripte noch weiter zugespitzt, da vor Augen gestellt ist, wofür Augenzeugenschaft postuliert wird, die im Fall der Jenseitsreise an die poetische Inszenierung der gewährten visio geknüpft ist.
Links
Research Colloquium History of Science
Hormonal Contraceptives: Tensions Between Social Progress and Medical Risks
Time
04/24/2017
16:15 - 17:45
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 2051
Lecturer
Kate Grauvogel (Bloomington/Indiana, USA)
Links
Ringvorlesung „Religion versus Medizin?“
Grenzziehungen zwischen Religion und Medizin: Eine religionswissenschaftliche Betrachtung anhand sogenannter Zauberpflanzen
Time
04/20/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Links
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
Workshop
A Fresh Look Backwards: ‘Scholarly Forgetting’ in the History of Classics
Time
04/07/2017
11:00 - 16:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für klassische Philologie , Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2249a (‘Marmorsaal’)
Organizers
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Volkswagen Stiftung, KU Leuven
Remarks
As places are limited, registration is required. Please notify Bas Clercx before March 31: sebastiaan.clercx@hu-berlin.de.
Links
sebastiaan.clercx@hu-berlin.de
Colloquium Summer 2017 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Roentgenizdat: Music on the Bone
Time
04/06/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Stephen Coates
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
Institutions, Identities, and Historical Practices in Science and Medicine
Time
04/04/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Ludmilla Jordanova, Durham University, UK
Links
Ludmilla Jordanova’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium
A Material Innovation: Bingata and the Craft of Color
Time
03/28/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
BuYun Chen, Swarthmore College, USA
Remarks
Comment by Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
Links
Workshop Series
Political Epistemology II
Time
03/23/2017
09:00 - 18:30
Location
Harnack House, Ihnestraße 16–20, 14195 Berlin, 14195 Berlin, Goethe Auditorium
Organizers
Jürgen Renn, Dagmar Schäfer
Lecturer
Andrea Bréard (Heidelberg University/Université Sciences et Technologies Lille 1), Moritz Epple (Goethe University Frankfurt), Sean Hsiang-lin Lei (Academia Sinica), Eden Medina (Indiana University, Bloomington), Manfred Laubichler (Arizona State University), Maurizio Meloni (Sheffield University), Oliver Schlaudt (Heidelberg University), David Kaiser (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Dennis Lehmkuhl (California Institute of Technology)
Remarks
Participation after registration only
Links
tneuendorf@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Nutrition and Nutritive Soul in Aristotle and Aristotelianism
Time
03/22/2017 - 03/24/2017
09:30 - 20:00
Location
Unter den Linden 6, room 2249a (22 March) and Hannoversche Straße 6, room 1.03 (23-24 March)
Organizers
Roberto Lo Presti, Giouli Korobili
Lecturer
James Lennox, Mary-Louise Gill, Richard King, Andrea Libero Carbone, David Lefebvre, Hynek Bartoš, Gweltaz Guyomarc'h, Tommaso Alpina, Bernd Roling, Christoph Sander, Andreas Blank
Remarks
The concept of nutrition as developed in Aristotle and the Aristotelian tradition, and its significance in the history of philosophical anthropology, biology and medicine, has received little attention in scholarship. This conference aims to address this gap.
Links
roberto.lo.presti@hu-berlin.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
Speech, Slavery and Natural History in the Anglo-Caribbean World
Time
03/21/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Miles Ogborn, Queen Mary University of London, UK
Links
Miles Ogborn’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium
Thematic Cluster: The Body of Animals
Time
03/14/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Masato Hasegawa, MPIWG
Remarks
Comment by Nadin Hée (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Links
Colloquium Summer 2017 “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Anna O.’s Nervous Cough: Historical Perspectives on Neurological and Psychological Approaches to Music
Time
03/14/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
James Kennaway, University of Groningen
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Early Modern Conversations Series
Money as a Problem for Early Modern People (and for Historians who Study Them)
Time
03/09/2017
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Sebastian Felten
Links
Colloquium
From Co-Ordinated Campaigns to Water-Tight Compartments: Diseased Sheep and Their Investigation in Britain, c1880–1920
Time
03/07/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Abigail Woods, Kings College London, UK
Remarks
Comment by Tamar Novick (MPIWG)
Links
Department III Colloquium
From “Constructing” to “Developing” Asia—Japanese Engineers and the Formation of the Post-Colonial, Cold War Development in Asia
Time
02/28/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, room 247
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Aaron Moore, Arizona State University, USA
Remarks
Comment by Emily Brownell (University of Northern Colorado)
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Netzwerktheorie und Geschichtsschreibung: Die Analyse der Kommentartradition der Sphaera von Sacrobosco (13.–17. Jh.)
Time
02/15/2017
16:00 - 18:00
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2. Floor, H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Matteo Valleriani (MPIWG)
Links
Department III Colloquium
The Concept of Technology: A Critical History
Time
02/14/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, room 247
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Eric Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin, USA
Remarks
Comment by Wilko Graf von Hardenberg (MPIWG)
Links
Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Colloquium Winter 2016/17
Sonic Refugia: Nature, Architecture and Landscape Design in West Berlin
Time
02/14/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Remarks
If you want to attend, please register using the contact below.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
Humanists and Time, or: Kepler Wagging his Tail
Time
02/13/2017
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Gadi Algazi, Tel Aviv University
Links
Gadi Algazi’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Early Modern Conversations Series
The Physician’s Album Amicorum: Vitality, Vividness, and Values.
Time
02/09/2017
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Maria Avxentevskaya
Links
5th Session of the arabistisches Blockseminar
Galen’s Pharmacology
Time
02/09/2017
10:00 - 15:00
Location
TOPOI Library, Hittorfstraße 18, 14196 Berlin
Organizers
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik (Freie Universität Berlin)
Links
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Ankunft in der Bildergesellschaft. Pressefotografie in Westeuropa und den USA, 1890-1945
Time
02/08/2017
11:00 - 13:00
Location
Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5. Floor)
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Malte Zierenberg
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Einfachheit und Komplexität in astrophysikalischer Modellierung
Time
02/08/2017
16:00 - 18:00
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2. Floor, H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Sibylle Anderl (Frankfurt a.M.)
Links
Department III Colloquium
Circulation and Flow: Ontological Metaphors in the Financial Debates of Northern Song China (960–1127 CE)
Time
02/07/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, room 247
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Christian de Pee, University of Michigan, USA
Remarks
Comment by Michael Stanley-Baker (MPIWG)
Links
Lecture Series “Visitors from Heaven, Visitors to Heaven”
Visiting the Heavens on Earth: on the Functions of Scholarly Representations of the Heavens
Time
02/07/2017
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Library Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Florentina Badalanova Geller, Rainer Kampling
Lecturer
Sonja Brentjes (MPIWG)
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Klüngel, Schule oder Denkstil? Historische Netzwerkanalysen als Instrument der Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Time
02/01/2017
16:00 - 18:00
Location
TU Main Building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2. Floor, H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Heiner Fangerau (Düsseldorf)
Links
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Cants, Creoles, and Code Switches: The Languages of Linguistic Fieldwork on Pitcairn and Norfolk Islands, 1950-1990
Time
02/01/2017
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5. Floor)
Organizers
Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Adrian Young
Links
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
Artful Nature in Early Modern Times. A Case Study in the Field of Widespread Topos
Time
01/31/2017
14:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Robert Felfe, Universität Hamburg
Links
Robert Felfe’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Department III Colloquium
Thematic Cluster: Digital Humanities and Local Gazetteers–Chinese Local Gazetteers as a Database
Time
01/30/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, room 265
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Shih-Pei Chen, MPIWG
Remarks
Comment by Aurelia Campbell (Boston College)
Links
Epistemes of Modern Acoustics Colloquium Winter 2016/17
Radio Engineers, Musicians, and the Trautonium
Time
01/24/2017
13:30 - 15:30
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin (seminar room)
Remarks
Please register at Office Acoustics, if you like to attend.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Department III Colloquium
Thematic Cluster: Digital Humanities and Local Gazetteers
Time
01/24/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, room 247
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Aurelia Campbell, Boston College, USA
Remarks
Comment by BuYun Chen (Swarthmore College)
Links
Time
01/17/2017 - 01/18/2017
Links
http://humboldt.staatsbibliothek-berlin. ...
Conference
Emerging Activity: Relating Things
Time
01/16/2017 - 01/17/2017
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Sophienstr. 22a, 10178 Berlin
Organizers
Interdisciplinary Laboratory “Image Knowledge Gestaltung” in the Hermann von Helmholtz-Zentrum für Kulturtechnik
Remarks
Deadline for registration is February 14, 2017.
Links
https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory ...
Early Modern Conversations Series
Transits in Time, Transits on Paper: Charles Plumier’s Iconographic Archive of Nature, 17th–19th centuries.
Time
01/16/2017
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Jose Juan Beltran
Links
4th Session of the arabistisches Blockseminar
Galen’s Pharmacology
Time
01/12/2017
10:00 - 17:00
Location
TOPOI-Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14196 Berlin
Organizers
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik (Freie Universität Berlin)
Links
Department III Colloquium
Chinese School Library Book Collections Database Project
Time
01/10/2017
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, room 247
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Joseph Dennis, University of Wisconsin, USA
Remarks
Comment by Masato Hasegawa (MPIWG)
Links
Colloquium
Theory in Exile: On Kurt Goldstein’s “The Organism”
Time
01/10/2017
17:00
Location
MPI for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Cornelius Borck (Institute for Medicine and Science Studies, University of Lübeck)
Links
https://www.mpib-berlin.mpg.de/de/aktuel ...
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
Gender and Technology in 20th-Century China: Textile Production between Household and Factory
Time
12/20/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Jacob Eyferth, University of Chicago
Links
Jacob Eyferth’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
3rd Session of the arabistisches Blockseminar
Galen's Pharmacology
Time
12/15/2016
10:00 - 17:00
Location
TOPOI-Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14196 Berlin
Organizers
Seminar für Semitistik und Arabistik (Freie Universität Berlin)
Links
Conference
Verhaltensdesign. Bildungs-, Erziehungs- und Regierungsprogramme
Time
12/08/2016 - 12/09/2016
14:00 - 19:15
Location
TU Berlin, Hybrid Lab, Villa Bell, Marchstraße 8, 10587 Berlin
Organizers
Literaturwissenschaft TU Berlin, Kulturwissenschaft HU Berlin (Jeannie Moser, Christina Vagt)
Links
Time
12/08/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Links
http://leibnizsozietaet.de/event/dezembe ...
http://leibnizsozietaet.de/wp-content/up ...
Special Guest Lecture
On the Presocratics
Time
12/08/2016
19:00
Location
ard College Berlin, the Lecture Hall Platanenstrasse 98a, 13156 Berlin
Organizers
Bard College Berlin
Lecturer
Glenn W. Most
Links
http://www.berlin.bard.edu/news/events/e ...
LAA zu Gast
Metallurgy in the Caucasus During Holocene (6th-3rd Millennia BCE): State of Art, Recent Research and Perspective
Time
12/07/2016
17:45 - 18:30
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Holzlaube, Raum 2.2058, Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Lecturer
Antoine Courcier
Remarks
17:30–17:45 Judith Flütterer gives a talk on“The Earliest Copper Metallurgy in Western Eurasia”
Links
BabMed Seminar/Lecture Series
Physiognomik im antiken literarischen Diskurs
Time
12/06/2016
16:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Markham J. Geller
Lecturer
Gian Franco Chiai
Links
Time
12/01/2016 - 12/02/2016
Links
christina.schaefer@fu-berlin.de
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Conference
Paths of Knowledge in Antiquity
Time
12/01/2016 - 12/02/2016
08:45 - 17:30
Location
Topoi Building Mitte R 1.03, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10099 Berlin
Organizers
TOPOI
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Der Teilchenbegriff als heuristisches Werkzeug in der frühen Hochenergiephysik
Time
11/30/2016
16:00 - 18:00
Location
TU Hauptgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2. Floor, H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Arianna Borrelli
Links
Lecture Series: “Physiognomik zwischen Orient und Okzident”
Fragmente physiognomischen Wissens in der syrisch-aramäischen Literatur
Time
11/29/2016
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Topoi-Haus Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Berliner Antike-Kolleg
Lecturer
Stefanie M. Rudolf
Links
Lecture/Finissage
Über die Camera Obscura
Time
11/29/2016
18:00
Location
Spanish Embassy, Lichtensteinallee 1, 10787 Berlin, Entrance: Thomas-Dehler-Strasse
Organizers
Montserrat de Pablo/MPIWG
Lecturer
Montserrat de Pablo
Remarks
Artist-in-Residence alumna Montserrat de Pablo´s lecture and finissage of photography project at Spanish Embassy, Berlin. A registration by email for both events is necessary before 28 November. Please bring a valid ID card or passport with you!
Links
Literaturtage des ZfL im Literaturhaus Berlin
Bildungswege und Erziehungsorte in der Gegenwartsliteratur
Time
11/25/2016 - 11/26/2016
Location
Literaturhaus Berlin, Fasanenstr. 23, 10719 Berlin
Organizers
Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung Berlin (ZfL)
Remarks
Erziehungsgeschichten haben eine lange Tradition in der Literatur, sie sind aber auch jüngst wieder aktuell geworden. Die Krise der Bildung, die Bildungsgesellschaft, die neue Erziehung und jüngst auch die kulturelle Bildung sind öffentlich in aller Munde. Was aber macht die Literatur jenseits der Schlagworte sichtbar? Inwiefern verdeutlicht sie, wie der Einzelne diese Institutionen erlebt und sich selbst in diesem Erleben verändert? Was sagt sie über das Funktionieren, das Scheitern und über die Veränderungen unserer Bildungs- und Erziehungsinstitutionen? Wie verhält sie sich schließlich zu jener Erwartung, die nicht selten an sie herangetragen wird: dass die Literatur selber bilden solle?
Links
Einsteinday 2016
Time
11/25/2016
18:50
Location
Nikolaisaal, Wilhelm-Staab-Straße 10/11, 14467 Potsdam
Remarks
Entrance 18:15. Guests are asked to take their seats before 18:50. Please register before November 15.
Links
Time
11/24/2016
18:00
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2016/ ...
http://www.www2.bbaw.de/mondstern ...
Time
11/24/2016 - 11/25/2016
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Conference
Why we (should) translate science/philosophy
Time
11/24/2016 - 11/25/2016
09:30 - 19:00
Location
SFB-Villa Schwendener Str. 8
Organizers
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Remarks
Einstein Project “The Poetics of Aristotle between Europe and Islam” at the BGSMCS
Links
Conference
Why We (Should) Translate Science and Philosophy
Time
11/24/2016 - 11/25/2016
Location
Sonderforschungsbereich 980 “Episteme in Bewegung,” Schwendenerstr. 8, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Einstein Stiftung Berlin and the Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, Freie Universität Berlin, in Association with the Project "Aristotle's Poetics in the West (of India) from Antiquity to the Renaissance"
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/poetics_a ...
Institute's Colloquium 2016/2017
The Unbearable Lightness of History. Comparing German and Vietnamese Refugees in East and West Germany
Time
11/22/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity at Göttingen
Links
Peter van der Veer’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture Series “Physiognomik zwischen Orient und Okzident”
Polemon 'Physiognomikà' und die zweite Sophistik
Time
11/22/2016
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Alessandro Stavru
Links
Conference
Working on Things. On the Social, Political, and Economic History of Collected Objects.
Time
11/21/2016 - 11/22/2016
Location
Jacob-und-Wilhelm-Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Straße 1/3, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Links
Conference
Leibniz and the Sciences
Time
11/14/2016 - 11/16/2016
09:00 - 19:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences Inselstraße 22 04103 Leipzig
Organizers
Jürgen Jost, Wenchao Li, Vincenzo De Risi, Matthias Schwarz, Pirmin Stekeler-Weithofer
Remarks
The aim of the conference is to bring together Mathematicians, Physicists, Historians, and Philosophers to jointly approach the oeuvre of one of the greatest scientists of mankind.
Links
Exhibition Opening
Das Erbe der Alten Könige. Ktesiphon und die persischen Quellen islamischer Kunst
Time
11/14/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Pergamonmuseum, Bodestr. 1-3, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Museum für Islamische Kunst, Institut für Museumsforschung
Links
General information about the exhibition
Time
11/11/2016 - 11/12/2016
Links
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/766/ ...
Workshop
Ownership of Knowledge: The Appropriation of Art & Technology
Time
11/10/2016 - 11/11/2016
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Department III
Remarks
If you like to attend, please register with Chaonan Zang.
Links
Conference
Philosophie des Museums
Time
11/10/2016 - 11/12/2016
14:30
Location
Bode-Museum, Museumsinsel Berlin
Organizers
Philosophisches Seminar of the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster
Remarks
Please register before November 1, 2016
Links
bernadette.collenberg@uni-muenster.de
Lecture Series: “Physiognomik zwischen Orient und Okzident”
Ritualperformanz und Ritualtext in Mesopotamien
Time
11/10/2016
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Topoi-Haus Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Berliner Antike-Kolleg
Lecturer
Beate Pongratz-Leisten
Links
Exhibition Talk
Finden, Ordnen, Sammeln: Was machen Paläontologen?
Time
11/10/2016
19:00
Location
Tieranatomisches Theater, Philippstraße 12/13, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
Tieranatomisches Theater
Lecturer
Kerrin Klinger, Oliver Wings, Lotte Thaa
Remarks
Number of participants restricted to 30. Please register at tat.hzk@hu -berlin.de. Before each exhibition talk there is a guided tour by the curators at 6:30 pm.
Links
Time
11/09/2016 - 11/10/2016
Links
http://www.uni-potsdam.de/humboldtart/ak ...
Department III Colloquium
Thematic cluster: Technologies of Europe
Time
11/08/2016
15:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Lissa Roberts, University of Twente, Netherlands
Remarks
Comment by Marius Buning (MPIWG)
Links
Time
11/03/2016 - 11/04/2016
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Conference and Performance
Analogisch denken in Wissenschaft und Kunst. Leibniz‘ Idee der Erfindung
Time
10/27/2016 - 10/28/2016
18:15
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Links
Colloquium
Prosopographie des Römischen Kaiserreichs: Ertrag und Perspektiven
Time
10/27/2016
17:00
Location
Unter den Linden 8, Veranstaltungsraum (07W04)
Organizers
BBAW
Links
Department III Colloquium
Thematic cluster: Technologies of Europe
Time
10/25/2016
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Department III
Lecturer
Marie Thébaud-Sorger, Centre Alexandre Koyré, France
Remarks
Comment by Tina Asmussen (MPIWG)
Links
Archaeological Colloquium
Zwischen Tradition und Innovation. Die Münzprägung Vespasians
Time
10/24/2016
18:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin - Dahlem
Organizers
J. Fabricius, M. Trümper, S. Polla, L. Winkler-Horacek
Lecturer
Martin Ziegert
Links
Workshop
Schreiber, Drucker und Handwerker als Akteure des Wissenswandels
Time
10/21/2016
13:00
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum Schwendenerstraße 8 14195 Berlin
Organizers
SFB 933 / SFB 980
Links
Symposium
Ermantag The study of the Middle Egyptian language after the era of the ”école de Berlin”
Time
10/20/2016
18:15
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Lecturer
Pascal Vernus
Remarks
Symposiums zu Ehren des Ägyptologen Wolfgang Schenkel
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschicte
Wissen vom Wetter um 1800: Heterogen, situiert, schwach?
Time
10/19/2016
16:00
Location
TU Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2. Floor, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Linda Richter
Links
Institute’s Colloquium 2016/2017
How Did East Asians Become Yellow?
Time
10/18/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Ohad Parnes
Lecturer
Michael Keevak, National Taiwan University
Links
Michael Keevak’s personal website
bvmallinckrodt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Presentation
Punks vs. Zombies: Evald Ilyenkov and the Battle for Soviet Philosophy
Time
10/13/2016
19:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 219
Organizers
Sascha Freyberg
Lecturer
David Bakhurst
Remarks
Limited space. Please register!
Links
GMPG Workshop
From Knowledge to Profit? Scientific Institutions and the Commercialization of Science
Time
10/10/2016 - 10/12/2016
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Research Group “History of the Max Planck Society” (Geschichte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft-GMPG)
Links
commercialization@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium "Premodern Conversations”
Toward the History of Everything? How to Move between the History of Science, History of Technology and Global History
Time
10/10/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin (seminar room)
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Lissa Roberts
Links
Conference
Aspects of Qur’ânic Scholarship - Philology meets Theology
Time
09/23/2016 - 09/26/2016
09:00 - 19:30
Location
Topoi-Building der Freien Universität, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster, SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung”
Remarks
The conference aim is to create a basis for future joint theological and philological research in the field of Qur'anic Studies.
Links
Workshop
Sound Objects in Transition: Knowledge, Science, Heritage
Time
09/15/2016 - 09/16/2016
10:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Viktoria Tkaczyk, Rebecca Wolf
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Public Lecture
Numbers: Representing and intervening
Time
09/15/2016
15:00
Location
Auditorium of the Grimm Zentrum, Geschwister-Scholl-Str. 1/3, in Berlin-Mitte
Lecturer
Theodore Porter (UCLA)
Workshop
Opening New Windows on the Cosmos: Astrophysics and Astronomy in the History of the Max Planck Society
Time
09/06/2016 - 09/08/2016
15:00 - 15:45
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, main conference hall
Organizers
Luisa Bonolis, Juan-Andres Leon, Roberto Lalli, Florian Schmaltz, Thomas Steinhauser
Remarks
Registration needed (gmpgoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de)
Links
gmpgoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Commemorative Symposium for Walter Friedrich Reineke
Wissenschaft und Wissenschaftler im alten Ägypten
Time
07/22/2016
09:00 - 19:30
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
Registration needed
Links
Colloquium "Premodern Conversations"
The Notion of Industry
Time
07/21/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Kaijun Chen
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles’ De generatione animalium. Das Problem der Geschlechtlichkeit
Time
07/20/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Sabine Föllinger, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Kybernetische und behavioristische Lehrmaschinen in Westdeutschland, 1960-1975
Time
07/20/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Tobias Edling
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
11th Scholars’ Forum
Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
Time
07/15/2016
10:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Remarks
For more information and registration, please contact Antje Gebhardt.
Links
Ander(e)s Wissen. Kritische Betrachtungen Globaler Wissensproduktion
Der inspizierte Muslim: Wissensproduktion und Machtreproduktion im Forschungsfeld „Islam in Europa“
Time
07/14/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Holzlaube, Hörsaal 1.2009, Fabeckstr. 23–25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Ruth Streicher
Lecturer
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Institut für Islamwissenschaft, FU Berlin
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/events/le ...
schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.de
Workshop
Nefarious Heathens: The Threat of Irreligion in the German Enlightenment
Time
07/14/2016 - 07/15/2016
10:30 - 18:30
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, L 116/L113, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Jonathan Fine
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles in Byzanz und die Pluralität der philosophischen Traditionen des neunten Jahrhunderts
Time
07/13/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Christophe Erismann, Universität Wien
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Museumskonzeptionen. Entwicklungen, Erfahrungen, Reflexionen am Beispiel des Museums für Technik und Arbeit Mannheim und des Museums für Kommunikation Berlin
Time
07/13/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Joachim Kallinich
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Modell-Licht-Bild: Zur Geschichte und Genese mathematischer Anschauungsmittel
Time
07/13/2016
16:00 - 18:00
Location
TU Hauptgebäude, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2. Stock im Altbau, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Anja Sattelmacher (HU Berlin)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
HFA Symposium
Mathematik und Science Fiction: Visionen für das Jahr 2048
Time
07/11/2016
18:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Leibniz-Saal, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Lecturer
Martin Grötschel, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Georg Schütte, Christof Schütte, Johannes Buchmann, Günter M. Ziegler, Judith Elsner
Remarks
Registration needed. The event will be simultaneously translated into English.
Links
Conference
The Premeditated Path–Deliberate Metaphor in Ancient and Modern Texts
Time
07/07/2016 - 07/08/2016
09:30
Location
Topoi Building Mitte Hannoversche Straße 6 10099 Berlin
Organizers
Camilla Di Biase-Dyson; Markus Egg
Remarks
Please confirm your intention to attend our workshop by the 24.06.2016, as places will be limited and the event will be partially catered.
Links
Wissenschaft im Dialog mit der Gesellschaft
Neue Perspektiven für den Transfer in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Time
07/07/2016
17:30 - 19:15
Location
Harnack-Haus der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Organizers
FU Berlin
Remarks
Please register by July 1, 2016.
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles Arabus. Übersetzungen und Rezeption in der islamischen Welt
Time
07/06/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Peter Adamson, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Illusion und Wissenschaft: Dioramen als Museumstechnik
Time
07/06/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Alexander Gall
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
BabMed guest lecture
Hesiod
Time
07/06/2016
14:30 - 16:00
Location
TOPOI-Haus, Library Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
BabMed
Lecturer
Glenn W. Most
Links
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
ENTWERTER/ODER und die Folgen: vom »Zeitschriftenunwesen« zur Buchkunst im DDR-Untergrund
Time
07/05/2016
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A cooperation between the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Uwe Warnke, Uwe Warnke Verlag
Remarks
Registration needed
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
How the Turn to Sound Studies Could Modulate Method
Time
07/05/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstr. 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Trevor Pinch (Cornell University)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
CMG-Lecture on ancient medicine 2016
Ethik als Medizin in der islamischen Welt
Time
07/05/2016
18:30
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Lecturer
Roland Wittler (BBAW), Peter Adamson (LMU)
Links
Mini-Workshop des Kolloquiums zur Geschichte des Wissens
Lehrfilm, Forschungsfilm, Methodenfilm – Formen und Funktionen des frühen Wissenschaftsfilms
Time
07/01/2016
14:00 - 18:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
A. Sattelmacher, Ch. Reiß, A. Schirrmacher, A. Laukötter
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Conference
Über Wissenschaft reden. Sprachgebrauch, Darstellungsform und Adressierungsstruktur der deutschen Wissenschaftsprosa um 1800
Time
06/30/2016 - 07/02/2016
Location
ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3. Floor
Organizers
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin
Links
Über Wissenschaft reden. Sprachgebrauch, Darstellungsform und Adressierungsstruktur der deutschen Wissenschaftsprosa um 1800
Time
06/30/2016 - 07/02/2016
14:00 - 18:00
Location
ZfL, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3rd Floor
Organizers
ZfL, Claude Haas, Daniel Weidner
Remarks
Inquiries to Claude Haas
Links
Spur(en)
Time
06/29/2016 - 07/01/2016
14:00 - 17:00
Location
Harnack-Haus, Tagungsstätte der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Ihnestr. 16-20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 Episteme in Bewegung
Remarks
Please register.
Links
Espresso-Workshop
Rekonstruieren II: Darstellung von Nichtwissen
Time
06/29/2016
14:30 - 17:30
Location
Topoi Building Mitte Raum 3.03 Hannoversche Straße 6 10099 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster TOPOI
Remarks
Please register by mail
Links
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Paradox and Propositio: Arguing against Received Opinion in and outside the Early Modern University
Time
06/28/2016
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Anita Traninger
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Big Aristotelianism?
Time
06/28/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Edward Watts, University of California San Diego
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Lecture
Ergalia - Instrumenta. Der antike Arzt und sein Handwerkszeug
Time
06/28/2016
17:30 - 19:00
Location
Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité, Hörsaalruine, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster TOPOI
Lecturer
Antje Krug
Links
Conference
Weg des Wissens
Time
06/27/2016 - 06/28/2016
Remarks
In 2011, an important Topoi conference was held at the MPIWG on the subject of Mulitilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra, and the papers are now being prepared for publication in 2015.
Links
Lecture Series SFB644 “Eine Antike, viele Antiken?”
Bezugsgröße Rom – Identitätsstiftung im deutschen Kaiserreich am Beispiel provinzialrömischer Museen und Sammlungen
Time
06/27/2016
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hauptgebäude, Unter den Linden 6, R. 1072
Lecturer
Ralf Grüßinger
Links
Workshop
Nutzung und Umnutzung von Grundbesitz, Gebäuden und Infrastrukturen im römischen Imperium und danach: Historische, rechtshistorische und archäologische Perspektive
Time
06/23/2016 - 06/24/2016
09:00 - 19:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Fachbereich Rechtswissenschaft, Boltzmannstraße 3, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster TOPOI
Links
Lecture Series „LAA zu Gast...im TOPOI-Haus Dahlem“
Historical Water Management in NE, Andalusia
Time
06/23/2016
18:30 - 18:45
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Sarah Ißelhorst
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Die Aristotelischen Analytiken und ihre Überlieferung. Beobachtungen zu einigen Manuskripten und textkritische Fragen
Time
06/22/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Christian Brockmann, Universität Hamburg
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Roundtable des Kolloquiums zur Geschichte des Wissens
Round Table: Das Berliner wissenschaftlich-technische Erbe im Kalten Krieg
Time
06/22/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
O. Lührs, D. Hoffmann, S. Wölfel, A. Schirrmacher
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Ringvorlesung: Migration Wanderungsbewegungen vom Altertum bis in die Gegenwart
Diaspora and the Jewish Diasporas
Time
06/22/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal 1a, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster TOPOI
Lecturer
Daniel Boyarin
Links
Lecture
Weltvermesser – von Erde, Meer und Himmel
Time
06/21/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Potsdamer Str. 33, 10785 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster TOPOI
Lecturer
Wolfgang Crom
Links
Colloquium "Premodern Conversations"
Sanskrit, Plants, and Paper: Botanical Knowledge Making in East India Company Bengal, c. 1790
Time
06/16/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Minakshi Menon
Links
Ander(e)s Wissen. Kritische Betrachtungen Globaler Wissensproduktion
Säkularismus anders denken. Orientalismus, Buddhismus und das „Buch zur Erörterung kleiner und großer Dinge“
Time
06/16/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Holzlaube, Hörsaal 1.2009, Fabeckstr. 23–25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Ruth Streicher
Lecturer
Ruth Streicher, Institut für Islamwissenschaft, FU Berlin
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/events/le ...
schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.de
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Zeno’s Arrow. From Aristotle’s Physics to Leibniz
Time
06/15/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Marwan Rashed, Université de Paris-Sorbonne
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Visual Simulation as a Cultural Technique. Early Computer Graphics in the U.S
Time
06/15/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Jacob Gaboury
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Building a Scientific Community in the Post-WWII Era. A Network Analysis of the Renaissance of General Relativity
Time
06/15/2016
16:00
Location
TU main building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2. Stock im Altbau, room H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Roberto Lalli and Dirk Wintergrün
Links
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/vortr ...
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Laboratories of Intelligibility, c. 1942
Time
06/14/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstr. 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Olga Touloumi (Bard College)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture Series “Die Seele ist ein Oktopus”
Gesundheit, Lebensstil und Verantwortung im antiken medizinischen und philosophischen Denken
Time
06/14/2016
17:30 - 19:00
Location
Medizinhistorisches Museum der Charité Hörsaalruine Charitéplatz 1 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster TOPOI
Lecturer
Philip van der Eijk
Links
complete schedule of the lecture series
Sixth Dahlem Seminar for the History of Ancient Sciences: Gattungen und Gattungsgrenzen
Genre and knowledge transfer in the Greek extispicy papyri
Time
06/14/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem Library Hittorfstraße 18 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Markham J. Geller; Klaus Geus
Lecturer
Victor Gysembergh
Links
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Zum Leibniz-Bild in den Ansprachen zu den Leibniztagen der Preußischen Akademie der Wissenschaften
Time
06/09/2016
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin (U-Bahnhof Turmstraße), BVV-Saal
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Dieter Hoffmann
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles’ Politik. Aristoteles als politischer Denker
Time
06/08/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Dr. h. c. mult. Otfried Höffe, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Industriekultur und Stadtgeschichte in Berlin. Zum Umgang mit einem vergessenen Paradigma
Time
06/08/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Joseph Hoppe
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
Kalligrafische Druckschriften Hermann Zapfs – von »Virtuosa« bis »Zapfino«
Time
06/07/2016
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A cooperation between the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Dr. Nikolaus Weichselbaumer, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Remarks
Registration needed
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Equal Opportunities in the Max Planck Society: Education, Human Development and Gender Issues
Time
06/07/2016
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Ulrike Thoms, Birgit Kolboske
Public podium discussion
Die Gegenwart der Antike. Altertümer zwischen Ware, Wert und Wissenschaft
Time
06/02/2016
19:00
Location
Heilig-Geist-Kapelle, Spandauer Str. 1, 10178 Berlin
Organizers
Humboldt University Berlin, special research area "Transformations of Antiquity"
Lecturer
Margarete van Ess, Luca Giuliani, Michael Müller-Karpe, Günther Wessel
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristotle’s Sophistici Elenchi. Are the fallacies topoi?
Time
06/01/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Sten Ebbesen, Københavns Universitet
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristotle’s Sophistici Elenchi. Are the fallacies topoi?
Time
06/01/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Sten Ebbesen, Københavns Universitet
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Of Blurs, Maps and Portraits: Photography and the Moon
Time
06/01/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Charlotte Bigg
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Lecture
Creatures of Cain. Evolution, Aggression, and the Search for Human Nature
Time
06/01/2016
19:00
Location
Einstein Forum, Am Neuen Markt 7, 14467 Potsdam
Organizers
Einstein Forum
Lecturer
Erika Milam
Links
einsteinforum@einsteinforum.de
http://www.einsteinforum.de/ ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Die umgekehrte Welt. The Role of Optics in Descartes’ Epistemology
Time
06/01/2016
16:00
Location
TU main building, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 2nd floor, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Mattia Mantovani
Links
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/vortr ...
Presentation
Byzantine Reuses of Early Christian Revelation-Dialogue
Time
05/31/2016
15:15
Location
Seminarroom, Villa des Sonderforschungsbereichs 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“, Schwendenerstr. 8, 14192 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
“WissensFragen“ des SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“
Lecturer
Dr. Peter Tóth (British Library)
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Presentation
Reziproke Identitätsstiftungen: Aushandlungsprozesse religiösen Wissens zwischen verschiedenen “Leuten der Schrift”
Time
05/27/2016
14:15
Location
Seminarroom, Villa of the Sonderforschungsbereich 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“, Schwendenerstr. 8, 14192 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
„WissensFragen“ des SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Peter Schäfer, Prof. Dr. Nicolai Sinai
Remarks
Please register
Links
Ander(e)s Wissen. Kritische Betrachtungen Globaler Wissensproduktion
The Middle East and the Disciplinary (Re)Production of Knowledge
Time
05/26/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Holzlaube, Hörsaal 1.2009, Fabeckstr. 23–25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Ruth Streicher
Lecturer
Andrea Teti, Centre for Global Security & Governance, University of Aberdeen
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/events/le ...
schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.de
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles’ De anima. Die Seele als Prinzip des Unterscheidens
Time
05/25/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Bernard, Universität Rostock
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
“Numeros et Nomina”: Medien der Naturgeschichte um 1800
Time
05/25/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Staffan Müller-Wille
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Arches and Scaffolds: Bridging Continuity and Discontinuity in Theory Change
Time
05/25/2016
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Michel Janssen (Minneapolis/Berlin)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Knowledge Institutions: A Search for Traces in European Prehistory
Time
05/24/2016
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Michael Meyer
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Was bedeutet es, wenn Aristoteles auf Latein gelesen wird?
Time
05/18/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Carlos Steel, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Droysen-Lecture
To the center via the periphery (by way of the Balkans).
Time
05/18/2016
18:00
Location
Zeughauskino (DHM), Unter den Linden 2
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Maria Todorova
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Theodor Herzl’s politisches und soziales Denken: Zionismus und Judentum gestern und heute
Time
05/12/2016
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin, BVV-Saal
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Malcolm Sylvers
Links
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung der Klasse Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften
Künstlergemeinschaften der Romantik aus heutiger Sicht
Time
05/12/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin (U-Bahnhof Turmstraße), Balkonsaal
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Peter Betthausen
Links
Ander(e)s Wissen. Kritische Betrachtungen Globaler Wissensproduktion
Deutscher Orientalismus und die Anfänge der Islamwissenschaften in Berlin
Time
05/12/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Holzlaube, Hörsaal 1.2009, Fabeckstr. 23–25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Ruth Streicher
Lecturer
Larissa Schmid, Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO) Berlin
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/events/le ...
schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.de
Mosse Lectures
On a Possible Difference Between Earth and the Globe
Time
05/12/2016
19:00
Location
Senatssaal of the HU, Unter den Linden 6, 1st Floor
Organizers
Mosse Foundation, Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Lecturer
Bruno Latour
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Der Substanzbegriff der Aristotelischen Kategorienschrift und seine Rezeption bei Plotin und den Neuplatonikern
Time
05/11/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Rainer Thiel, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Tinkering with Formulas, Playing with Particles, Working on Knowledge. Kulturanthropologische Perspektiven auf die moderne Hochenergiephysik
Time
05/11/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Anne Dippel
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
The Earwitness Thomas Kuhn
Time
05/10/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstr. 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Anke te Heesen (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
“Ich mach' mir die Welt wie sie mir gefällt”? Was ist und wozu taugt Modellierung?
Time
05/10/2016
10:00 - 13:00
Location
Dahlem Research School, Hittorfstraße 16, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Daniel Knitter, Werner Kogge
Remarks
Please register
Links
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles’ De motu animalium. Der Gedankengang im Licht einer kritischen Textausgabe
Time
05/04/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Oliver Primavesi, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Verkaufen, Tauschen, Verschenken. Zur Geschichte der Dublette am Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
Time
05/04/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Ina Heumann
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
»Salvator. Goethe. Radio.« Ästhetik, Ideologie und Poetizität der deutschen Schriftmuster
Time
05/03/2016
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A cooperation between the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Dr. Thomas Rahn, Freie Universität Berlin
Remarks
Registration needed
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Ausstellungsparcours
Transkulturelle Verflechtungen, globale Objektbiographien – islamische Kunst?
Time
04/29/2016
Location
Museum für Islamische Kunst im Pergamon Museum, Besuchereingang: Bodestraße, 10178 Berlin
Organizers
Transferprojekt des Sonderforschungsbereichs Episteme in Bewegung (SFB 980)
Remarks
Ausstellungsparcours zu transkulturellen Geschichten von Objekten im Museum für Islamische Kunst ab dem 29. April 2016
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/ ...
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Konferenz
Jahrestagung 2016: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – ein unvollendetes Projekt
Time
04/28/2016
10:00 - 17:00
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin (U-Bahnhof Turmstraße), BVV-Saal
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
TBA
Links
Ander(e)s Wissen. Kritische Betrachtungen Globaler Wissensproduktion
Das Wissen vom Recht der Anderen. Die Erforschung des Rechts in den deutschen Kolonien
Time
04/28/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Holzlaube, Hörsaal 1.2009, Fabeckstr. 23–25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Ruth Streicher
Lecturer
Anne Kwaschik · Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/events/le ...
schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.de
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles’ Metaphysik. Philosophiegeschichte als Wissenspraxis
Time
04/27/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann, Freie Universität Berlin
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Bildung auf 16 mm Zum naturwissenschaftlichen Lehrfilm im Vergleich
Time
04/27/2016
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Kerrin Klinger (HU Berlin)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte des Wissens
Einstein in Bohemia: Choose Your Own Wordline
Time
04/27/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, Room 5028 (5th Floor)
Organizers
Arne Schirrmacher
Lecturer
Michael Gordin
Links
arne.schirrmacher@hu-berlin.de
http://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/be ...
http://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/be ...
Invitation
Informationsveranstaltung zu den Q-Teams für das Wintersemester 2016/17
Time
04/27/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
bologna.lab am Hausvogteiplatz 5-7, Room 0101, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
bologna.lab
Remarks
Interessenten melden sich bitte bis 21.04.2016 verbindlich per eMail an.
Links
https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/einrichtunge ...
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Time(s) for Planning: Labour as Scientific Object in Socialist Romania
Time
04/26/2016
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Alina Cucu
The Long Ninth Century in Arabic-Islamic Knowledge and Culture
The Reception of Aristotle in the Long Ninth Century in Early Abbasid Iraq
Time
04/26/2016
18:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Fabeckstraße 23-25, Raum 2.2058, 2. OG, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies
Lecturer
Dimitri Gutas (Yale University)
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/en/dates/ ...
Colloquium "Premodern Conversations"
Categorical Binaries
Time
04/21/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Michael Stanley-Barker
Links
Ander(e)s Wissen. Kritische Betrachtungen Globaler Wissensproduktion
Der Griff nach dem Weltwissen. Westeuropa und die Verwissenschaftlichung des Kolonialen im imperialen Zeitalter
Time
04/21/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Holzlaube, Hörsaal 1.2009, Fabeckstr. 23–25, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
Schirin Amir-Moazami, Ruth Streicher
Lecturer
Anne Kwaschik · Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, FU Berlin
Links
http://www.bgsmcs.fu-berlin.de/events/le ...
schirin.amir-moazami@fu-berlin.de
RVL–2400 Jahre Aristoteles und Aristotelismen
Aristoteles’ Poetik. Grundlegung einer Theorie der Literatur in Europa
Time
04/20/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Institut für Philosophie, Vortragsraum im Untergeschoss, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Organizers
SFB 980 „Episteme in Bewegung“ and the Aristotelismus-Zentrum Berlin, Prof. Dr. Gyburg Uhlmann
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Arbogast Schmitt, Philipps-Universität Marburg
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/_media/Verans ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Observationsdiskurse Religion, Naturphilosophie und Medizin in den Zeitschriften der Leopoldina 1670–1790
Time
04/20/2016
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Simon Rebohm (Berlin / Halle)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
Press Invitation
"Wissenschaftliches Publizieren+": Presentation of the Excellence Cluster Topoi publication platform
Time
04/18/2016
17:00 - 20:00
Location
Leibniz-Saal der Berlin-Brandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Remarks
Register at sekretariat.hu@topoi.org. Register for members of press: public.relations@topoi.org.
Links
Public Event
Technosphere × Knowledge
Time
04/14/2016 - 04/16/2016
19:00
Location
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Organizers
Katrin Klingan
Remarks
All events in English with simultaneous translation into German
Links
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Scientific Scores and Musical Ears: Sound Diagrams in Field Recording
Time
04/12/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstr. 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Joeri Bruyninckx (MPIWG)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Center for the History of Emotions, Summer Semester Colloquium Series 2016
Amor nummi. Gefühle in der monetären Erziehung des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts
Time
04/12/2016
17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, Small Conference Hall
Lecturer
Sandra Maß
Links
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/Co_Reminder.Maß.12042016.pdf
Eventseries “Leibniz und die Sterne”
Warum schauen wir in die Sterne? Der Anwendungsnutzen der Astronomie
Time
04/11/2016
18:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Leibniz-Saal, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
Contact: Mimmi Woisnitza
Links
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
Der frühe arabische Buchdruck: Eine typographische und historische Annäherung
Time
04/05/2016
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A cooperation between the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Christoph Rauch, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Remarks
Registration needed
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Workshop
Forschungsdaten in bester Lage. Nutzungsszenarien und Perspektiven digitaler Forschungsinfrastrukturen
Time
04/05/2016 - 04/06/2016
12:00 - 15:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
Please register before March 31, 2016
Links
http://wsp.bbaw.de/workshop/flyer-worksh ...
Lecture Series ERRANS
Black Life
Time
03/22/2016
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, House 8, 10119 Berlin
Lecturer
Alexander G. Weheliye
Links
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/696/ ...
https://www.ici-berlin.org/fileadmin/use ...
Colloquium "Premodern Conversations"
Gestures and Experiment as Historical Method
Time
03/17/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Daniel Jaquet
Links
Eventseries „Leibniz und die Sterne“
Leibniz und die Sterne Kalenderreform, Galaxien und außerirdisches Leben: Astronomie gestern und heute
Time
03/16/2016
20:00
Location
Wilhelm-Foerster-Sternwarte e.V. mit Planetarium am Insulaner, Munsterdamm 90, 12169 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Klaus-Dieter Herbst, Lisa Kaltenegger, Matthias Steinmetz
Remarks
Please register (see link below)
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2016/ ...
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2016/ ...
https://www2.bbaw.de/kalenderreform ...
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
The Commercialization of Science within the Max Planck Society
Time
03/15/2016
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Jaromir Balcar, Alexander von Schwerin
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Mozart as a Reader: Problems in the Historiography of Musical Enlightenment
Time
03/15/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstr. 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Laurenz Lütteken (Universität Zü̈rich)
Remarks
The papers are available one week in advance, please contact Office Acoustics.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung der Klasse Sozial- und Geisteswissenschaften
Kolloquium: Recht und Freiheit in Geschichte und Gegenwart (zu Ehren von Prof. Dr. Hermann Klenner anlässlich seines 90. Geburtstags)
Time
03/10/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Medizincampus Berlin-Buch, Room 202 of the 'Gläserne Labor' (A13), Robert-Rössle-Str. 10, 13125 Berlin
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Walter Schmidt, Prof. Dr. Hans-Joachim Gießmann, Prof. Dr. Hans-Otto Dill
Links
ICI Lecture Series ERRANS
Unintentional Revelations. Reading History Against the Grain
Time
03/07/2016
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, House 8 D-10119 Berlin
Organizers
ICI Berlin
Lecturer
Carlo Ginzburg
Links
Lecture Series ERRANS
Unintentional Revelations. Reading History Against the Grain
Time
03/07/2016
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, House 8, 10119 Berlin
Organizers
ICI Berlin
Lecturer
Carlo Ginzburg
Links
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/694/ ...
Workshop
Museale Objekte im Kalten Krieg
Time
03/05/2016
09:30 - 19:00
Location
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Nordbau, 2. Floor, N3221, Invalidenstr. 43, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
Manuela Bauche, Mario Schulze –Exzellenzcluster Bild, Wissen, Gestaltung
Remarks
Please register until February 28, 2016 (Matei Bellu: bellumat@student.hu-berlin.de)
Links
Conference
HÖHLEN: Paläontologie, Philologie und Anthropologie
Time
03/03/2016 - 03/04/2016
13:00 - 18:45
Location
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Niederkirchnerstraße 7 10963 Berlin
Organizers
Jean-Louis Georget, Marcel Lepper, Markus Messling
Remarks
Contact and registration: Dr. Marcel Lepper
Links
https://cmb.hu-berlin.de/kalender/termin ...
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
Was ist gute Buchgestaltung?
Time
03/01/2016
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A Cooperation of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Friedrich Forssman, Kassel
Remarks
Registration needed
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Lecture and discussion
Driving Us Crazy: The Globalization of Western Mental Health and the History of Emotions
Time
02/25/2016
13:00 - 15:00
Location
Max Planck Institte for Human Development, Lentzeallee 94, 14195 Berlin, large conference room
Lecturer
Ethan Watters
Links
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Knowledge and Institutions in the Middle Ages
Time
02/23/2016
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Johannes Helmrath
Workshop
Citizen Science in Historical Perspective
Time
02/19/2016
09:30 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Sally Shuttleworth, Christine von Oertzen
Remarks
For registration please contact Regina Held. rheld@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Links
Colloquium "Premodern Conversations"
Expertise
Time
02/18/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Claire Griffin
Links
Workshop
Listening to the Archive. Histories of Sound Data in the Humanities and Science
Time
02/11/2016 - 02/13/2016
10:00 - 17:30
Organizers
Carolyn Birdsall (University of Amsterdam), Jochen Hennig (Humboldt University Berlin), Britta Lange (Humboldt University Berlin) and Viktoria Tkaczyk (MPI for the History of Science)
Remarks
For further information and to register, contact: Birgitta von Mallinckrodt officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Links
Booklet Listening to the Archive
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Zur Musiktheorie von G. W. F. Leibniz (2. Vorlesung im Rahmen der Leibniz-Ehrung der Sozietät anlässlich des 300. Todestages des Gelehrten)
Time
02/11/2016
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin (U-Bahnhof Turmstraße), BVV-Saal
Organizers
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Walter Bühler
Links
Keynote Lecture
Sound Archives avant la lettre: Audio Collections of the Nineteenth Century (1850s–1890s)
Time
02/11/2016
19:00
Location
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Interdisciplinary Laboratory: Image Knowledge Gestaltung, Sophienstraße 22a, Berlin
Organizers
Carolyn Birdsall, Jochen Hennig, Britta Lange, Viktoria Tkaczyk
Lecturer
Patrick Feaster
Remarks
Please register until February 4, 2016. (See contact below)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Water Management in Ancient Civilisations
Time
02/11/2016 - 02/12/2016
09:00 - 18:00
Location
TOPOI Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Excellence Cluster Topoi
Remarks
Contact: Jonas Berking, jonas.berking@fu-berlin.de, Phone: +49 30 838 70439; Sarah Isselhorst, sarah.isselhorst@fu-berlin.de, Phone: +49 30 838 59111
Links
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/Water ...
http://www.topoi.org/event/29782/ ...
ICI Lecture Series ERRANS
Before Scientific Revolutions: Error and the Fear of Error
Time
02/08/2016
19:30
Location
ICI Berlin, Christinenstraße 18/19, House 8, 10119 Berlin
Organizers
ICI Berlin
Lecturer
Lorraine Daston
Links
Time
02/02/2016
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Die Bibliothek als Verlag? Bibliotheken als Dienstleister im Rahmen wissenschaftlichen Publizierens
Time
02/02/2016
10:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Initiative Fortbildung für wissenschaftliche Spezialbibliotheken und verwandte Einrichtungen e.V. in cooperation with the Library of the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Lecturer
Esther Chen, Maria Effinger, Christina Riesenweber, Oliver Obst
Remarks
Please register until January 26, 2016 (see Flyer for more information)
Links
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Aufklärung Top Down. Leibniz und die Prinzenerziehung
Time
01/28/2016
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Einsterin-Newton-Kabinett, WISTA GmbH, Rudower Chaussee 17, 12489 Berlin
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Hans Poser
Links
http://leibnizsozietaet.de/ ...
Panel Discussion
Zitat und Paraphrase. Akademische Wissensaneignung im Wandel
Time
01/28/2016
18:30 - 20:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Leibniz-Saal, Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Remarks
please register until January 25, 2016
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2016/ ...
https://www2.bbaw.de/anmeldung-zitat-und ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
The migration of statistical tools from agriculture to paleontology
Time
01/27/2016
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 7. Stock, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Giuditta Parolini / Marco Tamborini (TU Berlin / Museum für Naturkunde Berlin)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Forms of Knowledge and Their Settings. Some Ancient Greek Cases
Time
01/26/2016
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Markus Asper
Conference
Material Cultures of Knowledge: Netze wissenschafts-politischer Beziehungen: zwischen Taiwan und Deutschland in Früher Neuzeit und Moderne
Time
01/26/2016 - 01/27/2016
09:00 - 17:00
Location
Haus der Wissenschaft, Pockelsstr. 11, 38106 Braunschweig, Raum Veolia
Organizers
Dagmar Schäfer, Bettina Wahrig, Ku-Ming Chang, Shi-Yung Liu
Remarks
Anmeldung erbeten unter: 0531-3915997 oder pharmgesch@tu-braunschweig.de
Links
http://www.pharmgesch-bs.de/ ...
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/Mater ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte der Humanwissenschaften
Heimat und Verkehr – Der Frankfurter Flughafen und seine Region
Time
01/25/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin, Room 4.30
Organizers
Philipp Felsch
Lecturer
Nils Güttler
Remarks
Public Lecture
Colloquium "Premodern Conversations"
Rethinking the 'One-Sex' Body: Sex, Gender and Medicine in the Medieval World
Time
01/21/2016
17:00 - 19:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Seminar Room V005
Organizers
Jaya Remond, Marius Buning
Lecturer
Katharine Park, Ahmed Ragab
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Die Entdeckung der Inkommensurabilität und ihre Bedeutung für Wissenschaft und Philosophie
Time
01/20/2016
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Jörg Henrich (TU Berlin)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Hearing Space in the Music of Hector Berlioz
Time
01/19/2016
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstr. 5, 14195 Berlin, Room V005
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Julia Kursell (University of Amsterdam)
Remarks
The papers are available one week in advance, please contact Office Acoustics.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Kolloquium zur Geschichte der Humanwissenschaften
Theoriehunger – Theorie in der West-Berliner Studentenbewegung der 60er Jahre
Time
01/18/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin, Room 4.30
Organizers
Philipp Felsch
Lecturer
Benedikt Sepp
Remarks
Public Lecture
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
„Shades of Grey“ statt „Schwarz-weiß“ oder Die Erfindung der unscharfen Mengenzugehörigkeit durch einen in Aserbaidschan geborenen und aus dem Iran in die USA emigrierten Elektrotechnikprofessor im Sommer 1965
Time
01/13/2016
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 7. Stock, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Rudolf Seising (Universität Jena)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
Forschungskolloquium zur Geschichte der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters
Konzepte von Weiblichkeit in Walahfrid Strabos, Visio Wettini
Time
01/12/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Koserstraße 20, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem Room A 127
Lecturer
Kathrin Henschel
Remarks
Werkstattbericht
Links
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/ ...
Kolloquium zur Geschichte der Humanwissenschaften
An Archaeology of Intermediation: Cybernetics, Cinema, and the Suburbs in the Filmwork of Gregory Bateson
Time
01/11/2016
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Georgenstraße 47, 10117 Berlin, Room 4.30
Organizers
Philipp Felsch
Lecturer
Bernard Geoghegan
Remarks
Public Lecture
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
Manuskript, Buch, Makulatur. Zur Materialität des Schreibens und Publizierens um 1800
Time
01/05/2016
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A Cooperation between the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Univ.-Prof. Dr. Cornelia Ortlieb / Tobias Fuchs, M.A., Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Remarks
Registration needed
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Ringvorlesung zur Berliner Kulturwissenschaft
Strategien der Erfassung. Eine Fotosammlung aus dem Nationalsozialismus
Time
12/16/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 26, Room 2.08
Organizers
Holger Brohm, Iris Därmann
Lecturer
Britta Lange
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
A Cluster of Excellence? The Museion in Alexandria and the Development of Ancient Science
Time
12/15/2015
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Klaus Geus
International Conference
Glas – Materielle Kultur zwischen Zeigen und Verbergen
Time
12/11/2015 - 12/12/2015
Location
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung, Schützenstr. 18, D–10117 Berlin
Organizers
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung
Remarks
Please send in your paper until 04/30/2015
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Conference
Animal Bodies in Science, Art and Commerce in Early Modern Europe
Time
12/11/2015 - 12/12/2015
09:00 - 13:00
Location
Humboldt University, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Room 2249a
Organizers
Rafael Mandressi, Alan Ross, Silvia Sebastiani
Remarks
Please register by 7 December 2015
Links
International Conference
Prehistoric Networks in the longue durée: Palaeolithic Innovations enabling the Neolithic Revolution
Time
12/09/2015 - 12/11/2015
08:30 - 17:00
Location
Freie Universität, Topoi Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Svend Hansen (German Archaeological Institute), Florian Klimscha (TOPOI), Jürgen Renn (MPIWG)
Remarks
Please register
Links
Ringvorlesung zur Berliner Kulturwissenschaft
Zur akustischen Vermessung des Raumes: Eine Kulturgeschichte
Time
12/09/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Humboldt Universität zu Berlin, Dorotheenstraße 26, Room 2.08
Organizers
Holger Brohm, Iris Därmann
Lecturer
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Ernst Troeltsch in Berlin - damals und heute
Time
12/07/2015
18:00
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstrasse 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2015/ ...
Treffpunkt WissensWerte
Alles ist relativ? 100 Jahre Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
Time
12/07/2015
18:00
Location
Magnus-Haus Berlin, Am Kupfergraben 7, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Technologiestiftung Berlin
Lecturer
Hermann Nicolai, Martin Grötschel, Jürgen Renn
Remarks
Anmeldung bis 03.12.2015
Links
http://www.technologiestiftung-berlin.de ...
Reihe 100 Jahre Allgemeine Relativitätstheorie
Die Entstehung und Renaissance der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie
Time
12/07/2015
19:30
Location
Urania Berlin e. V., An der Urania 17, 10787 Berlin
Lecturer
Jürgen Renn
Remarks
Ticktes: 4,5 - 8 €
Links
die Reihe. Beiträge zu auditiver Kunst und Kultur.
Sonic Thought - A Media History
Time
12/07/2015
20:00
Location
Technische Universität Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Raum H1058 (Konrad-Mellerowicz-Saal)
Organizers
Elektronische Studios der TU Berlin, Sound Studies der UdK Berlin
Lecturer
Jonathan Sterne
Links
http://www.ak.tu-berlin.de/menue/lehre/w ...
Conference
Testing Hearing: Science, Art, Industry
Time
12/04/2015 - 12/05/2015
09:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University), Mara Mills (NYU), Viktoria Tkaczyk (MPIWG)
Links
International Conference
Possibility Matters
Time
12/04/2015 - 12/05/2015
Location
ICI Kulturlabor Berlin, Christinenstr. 18/19, 10119 Berlin, Haus 8
Organizers
Alice von Bieberstein and Aurélia Kalisky
Links
International Conference
Aristotelische Wissensgeschichte und Editionsphilologie
Time
12/03/2015 - 12/04/2015
09:00 - 16:15
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, TOPOI-Haus, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Episteme in Bewegung
Links
Ringvorlesung "Interdisziplinarität in der Disziplin. Musikwissenschaft als akademisches Fach"
Musik und Akustik. Die Lehre von den Musikinstrumenten als Brücke zur Wissenschafts- und Technikgeschichte
Time
12/01/2015
19:00 - 21:00
Location
UdK, Fasanenstr. 1b, 10623 Berlin, Raum Fa 322
Organizers
Universität der Künste Berlin
Lecturer
Dr. Rebecca Wolf (Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Musikwissenschaft)
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
Kirchenslawische Typographie als Kunst und Waffe: Am Beispiel der ostslawischen Drucke des 15. bis 17. Jahrhunderts
Time
12/01/2015
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A Cooperation of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Dr. Vladimir Neumann, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz
Remarks
Registration needed.
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Discussion
Reden: Im Zentrum des Übels. Leben mit Anthropozän
Time
12/01/2015
20:00
Location
Roter Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin
Lecturer
Guillaume Paoli, Jürgen Renn, Bernd Scherer
Remarks
Tickets: 6-8 €
Links
Conference
A Century of General Relativity. The 100th Anniversary of Einstein’s Field Equations
Time
11/30/2015 - 12/02/2015
Location
Harnack House, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Bruce Allen, Alessandra Buonanno, Karsten Danzmann, Hermann Nicolai (Chair), Bernard Schutz, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics (Albert Einstein Institute), Potsdam and Hannover in cooperation with the MPIWG
Links
Workshop
Creating a Knowledge Society in a Globalizing World, 1450–1800
Time
11/30/2015
10:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Sven Dupré and Wijnand Mijnhardt (Utrecht University), Angela Fischel and Jörg Völlnagel (SMB), Ohad Parnes (MPIWG)
Links
artsandsciences@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Interferenzen
Das Komplementäre: Ergänzung, Wiederspruch, Alternative? Zwei Geschichten einer Denkfigur
Time
11/27/2015
19:00
Location
Tieranatomisches Theater der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Auf dem Campus Nord der HU Berlin, Philippstr. 12/13, Haus 3, 10115 Berlin
Organizers
et al°
Lecturer
Paul Ulrich Unschuld, Christina Vagt
Links
Play
Transcendence: Einstein, Kafka and Planck vs. Time, Space and Conventions
Time
11/25/2015 - 11/30/2015
20:00
Location
English Theatre Berlin, Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin
Remarks
Tickets €14 / 8 (students)
Links
Einstein Lectures Dahlem
A Century of Einstein’s Relativity: From the Big Bang to Black Holes and “Interstellar” (in English)
Time
11/25/2015
18:00
Location
Henry-Ford-Bau der Freien Universität, Hörsaal A, Garystr. 35, 14195
Organizers
Freie Universität Berlin, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft
Lecturer
Kip S. Thorne (Caltech)
Remarks
Please register until November 15, 2015
Links
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Material Makes Music: Experiments in Instrument Building
Time
11/24/2015
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Rebecca Wolf (MPIWG)
Remarks
The papers are available one week in advance, please contact Office Acoustics.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture Series
Größer, besser, länger: Langzeitplanung und Sofortmaßnahmen der Ming Dynastie im Jahr 1435
Time
11/24/2015
18:15 - 20:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, "Holzlaube", Hörsaal 1.2009, Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Eva Cancik-Kirschbaum
Lecturer
Dagmar Schäfer
Links
Play
Transcendence: Einstein, Kafka and Planck vs. Time, Space and Conventions
Time
11/20/2015 - 11/22/2015
20:00
Location
English Theatre Berlin, Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin
Remarks
Tickets €14 / 8 (students)
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
From Inventio to Invention: Rhetorical techniques in the experimental discourse of the early Royal Society of London
Time
11/18/2015
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 7. Stock, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Maria Avxentevskaya (FU Berlin)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
International Conference Narratives on Translations
Narratives on Translations
Time
11/17/2015 - 11/20/2015
09:30 - 18:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Conference Room
Organizers
Sonja Brentjes; José Luis Mancha
Remarks
Please, register until November 10, 2015. On November 17 the conference starts at 10 am.
Links
International Conference Narratives on Translations
Public Lecture: Narratives, Translations, and a Global History of Science
Time
11/16/2015
16:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Conference Room
Organizers
Sonja Brentjes; José Luis Mancha
Lecturer
Dagmar Schäfer
Remarks
Please, register until November 10, 2015
Links
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Hans Stille (1876–1966) – deutscher Geologe mit Weltruf, Funktionsträger der Akademie der Wissenschaften in Berlin in schwierigen Zeiten
Time
11/13/2015
10:00 - 16:00
Location
Rathaus Mitte, Karl-Marx-Allee 31, 10178 Berlin, BVV-Saal
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Heinz Kautzleben, Prof. Dr. Reinhard O. Greiling, Dr. Axel Bernd Müller, Prof. Dr. Hennes Obermeyer, Prof. Dr. Reimar Seltmann, Prof. Dr. Rainer Kind und Prof. Dr. Peter Knoll
Links
http://leibnizsozietaet.de/ ...
Conference
RAUM . Topoi Jahrestagung 2015
Time
11/13/2015
09:00 - 20:30
Location
Freie Universität Berlin Großer Hörsaal in der “Holzlaube”, Raum 1.2009 Fabeckstr. 23-25 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Gerd Graßhoff, Michael Meyer
Links
Workshop
Stability in Plato
Time
11/13/2015
09:00 - 17:30
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hannoversche Str. 6, room 3.03
Organizers
Barbara Sattler, Casey Perin, Thomas Johansen, Emily Fletcher, Joseph Bjelde
Links
https://ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de/ ...
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Zur Entwicklung der Translatologie zu einer eigenständigen Wissenschaftsdisziplin.
Time
11/12/2015
13:30 - 15:30
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin (U-Bahnhof Turmstraße), BVV-Saal
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Heidemarie Salevsky
Links
http://leibnizsozietaet.de/ ...
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, öffentliche wissenschaftliche Sitzung des Plenums
Time
11/12/2015
10:00 - 12:30
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin (U-Bahnhof Turmstraße), BVV-Saal
Lecturer
Dr. Horst Kant, Prof. Dr. Rainer Schimming, Prof. Dr. Horst Melcher, Prof. Dr. Herbert Hörz
Links
http://leibnizsozietaet.de/ ...
Conference
RAUM . Topoi Jahrestagung 2015
Time
11/12/2015
09:00 - 20:30
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin Senatssaal im Hauptgebäude Unter den Linden 6 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Gerd Graßhoff, Michael Meyer
Links
Forschungskolloquium zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
„… dass der interessanteste Vortrag an Wirkung verliert, wenn er zu lange dauert…“ Erkundungen zur Geschichte der Wissenschaftsund Medizingeschichte in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts
Time
11/11/2015
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Mainbuilding, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 7. Stock, Raum H 2051
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Beate Ceranski (Universität Stuttgart)
Links
http://isis.tu-berlin.de/course/view.php ...
Conference
Picturing the Body in the Laboratory.Genesis and Topicality of Evidence-Oriented Imaging in Institutions of the Long 19th Century and Today
Time
11/06/2015 - 11/07/2015
Location
Interdisciplinary Laboratory, Sophienstraße 22a; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Main Building, Seminar Room 2093, Unter den Linden 6
Organizers
Cluster of Excellence Image Knowledge Gestaltung
Lecturer
Barbara Orland, Bettina Bock von Wülfinging, Marietta Kesting, Sophia Kunze, Wolfgang Schäffner, Bettina Uppenkamp, Peter Galison, Soraya de Chadarevian, Johan Nyakatura, Anelis Kaiser, Thomas Stach, Dieter Weiss, Anne Dippel, Lukas Mairhofer
Remarks
Registration until 25th of October via email (see mail address below)
Links
https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory ...
https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory ...
fiona.franka.schmidt@hu-berlin.de
Dienst am Geheimnis: Geheimes Wissen in seiner Funktion und Bedeutung
Secrecy, Surveillance, and the Self
Time
11/05/2015
19:15
Location
Senatssaal der HU, Unter den Linden 6, 1st floor
Organizers
Mosse Foundation and the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung
Lecturer
Peter Galison (Lorraine Daston: Introduction)
Remarks
In English
Links
Werkstattgespräch „Die Materialität von Schriftlichkeit – Bibliothek und Forschung im Gespräch“
»Sie redet Fraktur mit ihm.« Zur Editionsgeschichte und typographischen Gestaltung von Alfred Döblins »Berlin Alexanderplatz«
Time
11/03/2015
18:15
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Haus Unter den Linden, Eingang: Dorotheenstraße 27, 10117 Berlin (Mitte), Treffpunkt: Eingangsbereich (Rotunde)
Organizers
A Cooperation between the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Universität Potsdam, the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.
Lecturer
Dr. Bernhard Metz, Freie Universität Berlin
Remarks
Registration needed.
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Citizen Science in the 19th and 21st Centuries
Time
11/03/2015
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Sally Shuttleworth
Institutescolloquium of the Institute of Physics, HU Berlin
Im Laboratorium des Krieges. Wie der Erste Weltkrieg die Physik veränderte
Time
11/03/2015
15:15 - 17:00
Location
Lise-Meitner-Haus, Christian-Gerthsen-Hörsaal, Lise Meitner-Haus, Newtonstraße 15, 12489 Berlin
Lecturer
Arne Schirrmacher (HU und Universität Regensburg)
Practical Knowledge and Medical Practice in Ancient Mediterranean Cultures
Time
11/02/2015 - 11/03/2015
10:00 - 17:45
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin-Mitte, Marmorsaal, Room 2249a
Organizers
Christine F. Salazar, Lennart Lehmhaus,Franziska Desch
Remarks
For organisational reasons participants are kindly requested to register – please contact: lennart.lehmhaus@fu-berlin.de
Links
Exhibition
On the Camera Obscura: The obsession with capturing images
Time
11/02/2015 - 12/31/2015
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Montserrat de Pablo
Links
Talk
A Critical Moment in the History of Medical Statistics in France
Time
10/29/2015
17:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 215
Organizers
MPRG Arnaud
Lecturer
Peter Cryle
Richard Krautheimer in Deutschland (1925–1933): Aus den Anfängen einer wissenschaftlichen Karriere
Time
10/21/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Hörsaal 3075
Organizers
Institut für Kunst- und Bildgeschichte der HU Berlin
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Ingo Herklotz (Marburg)
Forschung an den Grenzen des Wissens
Das Anthropozän
Time
10/15/2015
18:00
Location
Meitner-Saal, Harnack-Haus der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Ihnestr. 16-20, Berlin
Lecturer
Jürgen Renn; Peter Sloterdijk
Institute's Colloquium MPIWG 2015/2016: Institutions of Science in History
Institutions of Knowledge in Islamicate Societies: Patronage, Books, Families, the Arts
Time
10/13/2015
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Hall
Organizers
Giulia Giannini, Pietro D. Omodeo, Matthias Schemmel
Lecturer
Sonja Brentjes
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Communication Engineering: Efficiency and Deficiency
Time
10/06/2015
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Mara Mills (New York University)
Remarks
The papers are available one week in advance, please contact Office Acoustics.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
10/06/2015
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Time
10/01/2015 - 10/03/2015
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Time
09/25/2015 - 09/26/2015
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Workshop
Open Forum for History of the Life Sciences
Time
09/24/2015
12:30 - 18:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Mathias Grote (HU Berlin) and Lara Keuck (MPIWG)
Remarks
For more information and registration, please contact Lara Keuck and Mathias Grote.
Links
Time
09/20/2015 - 09/25/2015
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
19th Colloquium of Comité international de paléographie latine
„Change“ in Medieval and Renaissance Scripts and Manuscripts
Time
09/16/2015 - 09/18/2015
Location
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Potsdamer Strasse 33, 10785 Berlin & Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstrasse 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Remarks
Fee for all participants: € 45.
Links
handschriftenabt@sbb.spk-berlin.de
https://derepalaeographica.wordpress.com ...
Time
09/16/2015 - 09/19/2015
09:00 - 18:00
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2015/ ...
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Nietzsche’s Tuning Fork and the Birth of Acoustics
Time
09/08/2015
14:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Steven Lydon (Harvard University)
Remarks
The papers are available one week in advance, please contact Office Acoustics.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Globalized Classics
Time
09/04/2015 - 09/05/2015
Location
HU Berlin, August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum
Organizers
August-Boeckh-Antikezentrum
Links
http://globalizedclassics.antikezentrum. ...
martin.stoeckinger@hu-berlin.de
Time
09/03/2015 - 09/04/2015
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Time
08/14/2015 - 08/15/2015
10:00 - 17:30
Links
http://berliner-antike-kolleg.org/wp-con ...
http://berliner-antike-kolleg.org/wp-con ...
Workshop
The Sciences and the Arts: Different or Similar Tendencies of Evolution?
Time
07/21/2015 - 07/22/2015
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, “Seminarzentrum,” Room L 115, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
FU Berlin
Lecturer
Annette Jael Lehmann (Freie Universitaet Berlin), Emanuele Coccia (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales), Adam Hofri (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem), Yufan Hao (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Jacques Neefs (The Johns Hopkins University), Leonard Neidorf (Harvard University)
Remarks
Due to limited seating, we kindly ask you to RSVP by July 16, 2015.
Links
Time
07/21/2015
09:00 - 17:30
Links
http://berliner-antike-kolleg.org/event/ ...
http://berliner-antike-kolleg.org/wp-con ...
Time
07/15/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Time
07/15/2015
16:30
Links
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/margherita ...
http://www.fu-berlin.de/sites/margherita ...
Scholars’ Forum
10th Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
Time
07/10/2015
10:00 - 19:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Remarks
For more information and registration, please contact Antje Gebhardt.
Links
Workshop
The Senses and the Methodology of Reconstruction—Towards a History of Sensuous Experiences in the Making of the Arts and Knowledge
Time
07/10/2015
09:15 - 18:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Marjolijn Bol (MPIWG/University of Amsterdam), Sven Dupré (MPIWG/Freie Universität Berlin)
Remarks
It is possible to observe the workshop, but space is limited. If you wish to attend please contact officedupre (see Link below).
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
07/08/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Perspective on Stage: Optics and Politics of Theatrical Scenery in Early Modern Europe
Time
07/06/2015
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Jaime Cuenca Amigo (MPIWG/Universidad de Deusto)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Geometry and Space in the Early Modern Age
Time
07/06/2015 - 07/08/2015
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Links
Time
07/02/2015 - 07/04/2015
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Time
07/02/2015 - 07/04/2015
09:30 - 16:30
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/29112/ ...
http://www.topoi.org/wp-content/uploads/ ...
Time
07/01/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Workshop
Margins of Error
Time
06/29/2015 - 06/30/2015
14:00 - 18:30
Location
ICI Kulturlabor Berlin ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 D- 10119 Berlin
Lecturer
Rosa Barotsi, S. Pearl Brilmyer, James Burton, Antonio Castore, Federico Dal Bo, Maria José De Abreu. Preciosa Regina de Joya, Walid El-Houri, Ewa Majewska, Clara Masnatta, Claire Nioche-Sibony, Zairong Xiang
Remarks
In English
Links
Conference
Towards a History of Epistemic Genres: Textbook and Commentary, Case and Recipe in the Making of Medical Knowledge
Time
06/26/2015 - 06/27/2015
08:45 - 18:15
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Gianna Pomata (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore), Yvonne Wübben (Freie Universität Berlin, Ruhr Universität Bochum)
Remarks
Please register until 24 June 2015 per email (Ute Hoffmann)
Links
Lecture
Autobiographies of Artifacts
Time
06/25/2015
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG Department II working group “Sciences of the Archive” and Department III
Lecturer
Ken Alder (Northwestern University)
Links
Time
06/24/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Workshop “Mathematics and Metaphysics in 17th-Century Britain”
Geometry and Philosophy of Space in Isaac Barrow
Time
06/23/2015
10:00 - 18:15
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Davide Crippa (SPHERE, Université Paris), Vincenzo De Risi (MPIWG), Marco Panza (Université Paris 1; CNRS)
Lecturer
Antoni Malet (Universitat Paompeu Fabra, Barcellona), Edward Slowik (Winona State University), Ian Stewart (King’s College, Halifax), Marco Panza (Université Paris 1; CNRS)
Links
Time
06/23/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
https://www.antikezentrum.hu-berlin.de/d ...
https://www.antikezentrum.hu-berlin.de/d ...
Time
06/19/2015
18:30
Links
http://www.www2.bbaw.de/humboldt_russlan ...
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2015/ ...
Time
06/18/2015
15:00
Links
arbeitsbereich-renger@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Time
06/17/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Knowledge
Accounting for Dinosaurs at the American Museum of Natural History
Time
06/17/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
HU Berlin, Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Lukas Rieppel (Brown University/MPIWG)
Links
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
Materialities Roundtable
Time
06/16/2015
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Utrecht University), Sally Gregory Kohlstedt (University of Minnesota), Honghong Tinn (MPIWG)
Links
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Persuasion in the Air: Pig-squeal Radio, Marketing Muzak, and the Behaviorist Turn
Time
06/16/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Alix Hui (Mississippi State University)
Remarks
The papers are available one week in advance, please contact Office Acoustics.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/2015_ ...
Predoc Conference
Land Ahoy!
Time
06/15/2015
09:00 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Elisabeth Wallmann & Martin Fechner
Lecturer
Angela Axworthy, Christine von Oertzen, Daniel Meßner, Elaine Leong, Elizabeth Merrill, Floris Solleveld, Gunthild Storeck, Jaya Remond, Jessica Lee, Kevin Chang, Lino Camprubí, Nele Diekmann
Remarks
Please register by June 7, 2015, if you like to take part.
Links
Commemorative event and award ceremony
Time
06/15/2015
17:30
Location
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt Einstein-Saal, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Maximilian Schich (University of Texas, Dallas)
Remarks
Registration is required
Links
Discussion
Museum, Power, and Identity
Time
06/11/2015
15:00 - 20:00
Location
Museen Dahlem, Lansstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Weber Stiftung – Deutsche Geisteswissenschaftliche Institute im Ausland and the Forum Transregionale Studien
Remarks
To participate please register by sending your name and affiliation by June 5, 2015
Links
schifferdecker@maxweberstiftung.de
http://wwc.hypotheses.org/ ...
Time
06/11/2015 - 06/12/2015
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Workshop
(In)visible labour—Knowledge Production in the Human Sciences
Time
06/11/2015 - 06/12/2015
10:30 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Department II
Remarks
Places are limited, please contact office Lipphardt to register.
Links
officelipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Symposium
The Invention of Defect. Disability, Femininity, Technicity
Time
06/11/2015 - 06/12/2015
19:30
Location
ICI Kulturlabor Berlin ICI Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry Christinenstr. 18/19, Haus 8 D- 10119 Berlin
Organizers
S. Pearl Brilmyer, James Burton
Lecturer
Mara Mills (New York University), Emanuela Bianchi (New York University)
Remarks
In English. Both keynotes are open to the public. However, the workshop - due to a limited number of seats - requires prior registration. If you intend to participate in the workshop, please register by 8 June 2015 (see link below).
Links
Time
06/10/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Time
06/09/2015
18:30
Links
https://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/magnus/pro ...
https://www.dpg-physik.de/dpg/magnus/for ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Bottled Knowledge. Reflections on Oil as a Salient Substance in Early Modern Netherlandish Painting
Time
06/08/2015
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Ann-Sophie Lehmann (Utrecht University)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
06/05/2015 - 06/06/2015
10:00 - 18:00
Links
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/en/ ...
stephen.menn@ancient-philosophy.de
Time
06/03/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Science, Materials, and Empire: Making Pure-Quinine in British India, 1867-1890
Time
06/01/2015
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Rohan Deb Roy (MPIWG/Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Making the Qing Palace Machine Work
Time
05/28/2015 - 05/29/2015
09:30 - 16:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Dept. III, Martina Siebert
Remarks
Registration is required for this event. Please register online via the provided form (link below).
Links
schaeferoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Knowledge, Belief, and Logos in Plato
Time
05/28/2015 - 05/29/2015
Location
Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10099 Berlin
Organizers
Topoi
Remarks
Plato famously aligns knowledge with non-spatial objects, and belief with spatial objects. But why? In particular, what other Platonic commitments explain that one? This workshop will take those questions as central. Participants (detailed schedule and titles TBA): Katja Vogt (Columbia University) Carrie Swanson (University of Iowa) Whitney Schwab (University of Maryland, Baltimore County) Matt Evans (University of Michigan) Jonathan Beere (Humboldt Universitaet zu Berlin) Joseph Barnes (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin)
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/27810/ ...
Workshop
Forms of Life, Language, and Citizenship
Time
05/28/2015 - 05/29/2015
Location
Centre Marc Bloch, Friedrichstraße 191, 10117 Berlin & MPIWG, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPRG Arnaud and the Centre Marc Bloch with the support of Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and the Institut universitaire de France.
Links
Time
05/27/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Knowledge
Wilhelm Reich, Biologist
Time
05/27/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
HU Berlin, Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
James F. Strick (Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA)
Links
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Book Presentation
Haeckel’s Embryos: Images, Evolution, and Fraud
Time
05/27/2015
19:30
Location
Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin
Lecturer
Nick Hopwood (University of Cambridge)
Remarks
Fee 5 €, discounted 4 € (+ entrance fee), pleaser register via email.
Links
http://www.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de ...
Lecture
Words, Sounds, and Objects in Greco-Roman Medical Magic
Time
05/27/2015
18:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Topoi
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Heinrich von Staden, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA
Remarks
When comparing Greek and Babylonian medicine, the role of magic or mageia in general within healing contexts is one of the crucial problems. How can we re-assess our perception of the ‘magical’ component in Greek medicine in relation to that of its neighbours? Is magic to be disclaimed as ‘superstition’, as the readings of classical authors might suggest?
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/29788/ ...
Time
05/20/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Knowledge
The Dolphins in the Basement: Collecting Brains and Behaviour in 1960s Psychiatry
Time
05/20/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
HU Berlin, Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Kathryn Schoefert (Cambridge)
Links
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
Waste, Scale, and Materiality in the African Anthropocene
Time
05/19/2015
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan)
Links
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
A Visual Imprint of Moving Air: Architectural Sound Photography, 1912–1935
Time
05/19/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Sabine von Fischer (Zurich)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/2015_ ...
Workshop
Listening and Knowledge in Reformation Europe (1500–1650)
Time
05/15/2015
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Remarks
Please register via mail if you like to take part.
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Time and Political Authority
Time
05/15/2015 - 05/16/2015
Location
New York University – Berlin Schönhauser Allee 36, Prenzlauerberg
Organizers
NYU-in-Berlin
Remarks
Supported by NYU’s Global Research Initiative and Department of History, as well as the New York Area Consortium for Intellectual and Cultural History.
Links
http://www.academia.edu/12245193/Time_an ...
Time
05/13/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Time
05/13/2015 - 05/16/2015
Links
http://www.dainst.org/termin/-/event-dis ...
Time
05/08/2015
15:00 - 21:00
Links
http://www.sichtbarkeit-sichtbarmachung. ...
http://www.sichtbarkeit-sichtbarmachung. ...
Time
05/07/2015 - 05/09/2015
Links
https://www.uni-potsdam.de/en/pressrelea ...
Lecture Series “Zitat und Paraphrase. Akademische Wissensaneignung im Wandel”
The Rise and Fall of Quellenforschung
Time
04/30/2015
18:30
Location
Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Einstein-Saal, Jägerstrasse 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
BBAW
Lecturer
Glenn W. Most (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Italien)
Links
Time
04/29/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Links
http://www.kunstgeschichte.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ikb-sekretariat@culture.hu-berlin.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Knowledge
Cultural Histories of the Sciences, Local and Global
Time
04/29/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
HU Berlin, Friedrichstraße 191-193, 10117 Berlin, Raum 5028
Organizers
HU Berlin, Anke te Heesen
Lecturer
Nick Jardine (Cambridge)
Links
https://www.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/de/b ...
Guest Lecture
Women in Ancient Philosophy
Time
04/29/2015
14:00 - 17:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Hannoversche Str. 6, room 3.03
Organizers
HU Berlin, Department for Philosophy
Lecturer
Ursula Coope (Oxford)
Remarks
This is a pre-read session. The paper will be circulated in advance to those who are planning to attend. Please contact Ana Laura Edelhoff.
Links
https://ancient-philosophy.hu-berlin.de/ ...
ana.laura.edelhoff@hu-berlin.de
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Environmentalism Meets Scientific Uncertainty: The Somatic Mutation Theory in a World of Carcinogens
Time
04/29/2015
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Organizers
TU Berlin, Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Angela N. H. Creager, (Princeton University)
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Engineering, Cartography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome
Time
04/27/2015
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Pamela Long (MPIWG)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Chinese Local Gazetteers (difangzhi 地方志): Historical Method and Computerized Data Collection and Analysis
Time
04/27/2015 - 04/28/2015
09:30 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Dept. III, Shih-Pei Chen, Digital Content Curator; Martina Siebert, Research Scholar
Remarks
Registration is required for this event. Please register online via the provided form (link below).
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Newton’s Theory of Vision and Its Role in the Opticks
Time
04/22/2015
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Organizers
TU Berlin, Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Philippe Hamou (University Paris Ouest / MPIWG Berlin)
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
Texts, Images and Machines in the Spread of Ancient Mechanics
Time
04/21/2015
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Joyce van Leeuwen (MPIWG)
Links
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Instruments with Air Columns: Wilhelm Eduard Weber, Theobald Boehm, Organ Pipes, and Flutes
Time
04/21/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Myles Jackson (NYU)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/2015_ ...
International Conference
100 Jahre Giftgaskrieg: Forschung, Einsatz, Folgen chemischer Massenvernichtungswaffen
Time
04/21/2015 - 04/22/2015
Location
Harnack-Haus, Ihnestraße 16-20, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Program History of the Max Planck Society
Remarks
If you like to take part, please register online (website).
Links
Time
04/17/2015
14:00
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/anmeldung_theoria_cum ...
http://jahresthema.bbaw.de ...
Time
04/17/2015 - 04/19/2015
19:00
Links
http://www.historikerlabor.de/aktuelles/ ...
Workshop
Philosophy, Science and the Sciences – Opening Workshop
Time
04/16/2015
09:30 - 15:00
Location
HU Berlin, Luisenstraße 56, 10115 Berlin Festsaal
Organizers
HU Berlin, Department of Philosophy
Lecturer
Keynote by Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s University, Canada); talks by Henry Mendell and Matteo Martelli.
Links
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/en/ ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
The 1930 Conference in Rome and the First Handbooks on Scientific Analysis of Artworks
Time
04/13/2015
16:00 - 17:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe” (Dupré)
Lecturer
Marco Cardinali (MPIWG)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
03/27/2015
09:00 - 18:00
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/filead ...
Lecture
Comparative Chaos: Microscopic Comparative Anatomy and Physiology in the 1830s and 1840s
Time
03/25/2015
14:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “The Construction of Norms in 17th- to 19th-Century Europe and the United States”
Lecturer
Lynn Nyhart
Links
Workshop
Finding a Path through the Woods: Analyzing Francis Bacon’s Sylva sylvarum (II)
Time
03/24/2015 - 03/25/2015
Location
Technische Universität Berlin (TU), Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, Room H2051
Organizers
Arianna Borrelli and Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin)
Lecturer
Daniel Andersson (Oxford), Arianna Borrelli (TU Berlin), Sorana Corneanu (Bucharest), Claudia Dumitru (Bucharest), Laura Georgescu (Ghent), Dana Jalobeanu (Bucharest), Silvia Manzo (La Plata), Arnaud Milanese (Lyon), Cesare Pastorino (TU Berlin), Doina-Cristina Rusu (Bucharest), Koen Vermeir (Paris)
Links
http://www.wissensgeschichte-berlin.de/s ...
Play
Isaac’s Eye
Time
03/24/2015 - 03/28/2015
20:00
Location
English Theatre Berlin, International Performing Arts Center, Fidicinstraße 40, 10965 Berlin
Organizers
English Theatre Berlin
Remarks
Isaac’s Eye mixes the facts of Isaac Newton’s life with an equal dose of fiction to explore what great people are willing to sacrifice to become great people. It puts the history of science onstage, juxtaposing historical characters and facts with our 21st century based projection of them. Featuring a post-performance discussion with Dr. Regine Hengge, director Günther Grosser and the cast on Friday, March 27 in conjunction with Theater Scoutings Berlin!
Links
http://www.etberlin.de/producing-series/ ...
Workshop
Migration of Natural Historical Knowledge Between Media, 1550–1680
Time
03/23/2015 - 03/24/2015
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Sven Dupré (MPIWG), Florike Egmond (Leiden University), Marrigje Rikken (Leiden University), Paul J. Smith (Leiden University)
Remarks
It is possible to observe the workshop, but space is limited. If you wish to attend please contact officedupre.
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Knowing Things. Circulations and Transitions of Objects in Natural History
Time
03/23/2015 - 03/24/2015
Location
Bundesministerium für Verkehr und digitale Infrastruktur, Invalidenstraße 44, 10115 Berlin
Remarks
The conference is held in English. Please register with your name and institution by March 15, 2015.
Links
http://www.mfn-wissensdinge.de/veranstal ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
What do Historians want from “Materiality”? Reflections on Theory and the Humanities since the 1970s
Time
03/17/2015
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Martin Collins (Smithsonian Institution)
Links
Colloquium “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Science Goes to War: World War I and the Industrialisation of Acoustics
Time
03/17/2015
10:00 - 12:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “Epistemes of Modern Acoustics”
Lecturer
Roland Wittje (University of Regensburg)
Links
officeacoustics@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/2015_ ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Cultures of Alloy: Technology and Community in Early Medieval Europe
Time
03/09/2015
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Ittai Weinryb (Fellow, Art Histories and Aesthetic Practices, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin / Bard Graduate Center, NYC)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
03/05/2015 - 03/06/2015
Links
http://www.wissensgeschichte-berlin.de/s ...
Time
02/27/2015 - 03/01/2015
19:00
Links
http://www.historikerlabor.de/aktuelles/ ...
Talk
A History of Scientific Experience: Observation, Experiment, and New Ways of Seeing in Early Modern Europe
Time
02/24/2015
17:00
Location
Bard College Berlin Auditorium, Platanenstr. 98a, Berlin - Pankow
Lecturer
Lorraine Daston (MPIWG)
Remarks
Admission free
Links
http://www.berlin.bard.edu/news/events/e ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Pictures in the Head. Optical Arguments for and against Indirect Perception in 17th-Century England
Time
02/23/2015
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Philippe Hamou (MPIWG, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
02/20/2015 - 02/22/2015
19:00
Links
http://www.historikerlabor.de/aktuelles/ ...
Conference
Hybrid Photography – Intermedial Practices in Sciences and Humanities
Time
02/19/2015 - 02/21/2015
Location
HU Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Senatssaal
Links
http://www.kulturtechnik.hu-berlin.de/hy ...
International Conference
Aristotle’s Anthropology
Time
02/19/2015 - 02/21/2015
Location
Humboldt-Universität, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Raum 2249a
Remarks
You are invited to take part, however, since space is limited, please register with Kerstin Helf.
Links
https://www.philosophie.hu-berlin.de/ins ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
Magic in the Black Box? Anthropological Reflections on Skilled Practice, Technical Ignorance and the Materiality of Things
Time
02/17/2015
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Mareile Flitsch (Völkerkundemuseum Universität Zürich)
Links
Workshop
(De)Colonizing Knowledge: Figures, Narratives, and Practices
Time
02/16/2015 - 02/17/2015
Location
FU Berlin
Links
alexandra.przyrembel@fu-berlin.de
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/fmi/ ...
Book Presentation
Galileo Galilei – New Sources
Time
02/13/2015
09:30 - 13:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Jürgen Renn, Matteo Valleriani, Giulia Giannini, Michele Camerota, Paolo Galluzzi, Iolanda Rolfo
Links
valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Psychopathological Fringes
Time
02/13/2015 - 02/14/2015
Location
Thielallee 71, 14195 Berlin, Seminarraum
Remarks
This workshop is organized by the institute for the history of medicine and ethics of medicine (Charité Berlin)
Links
http://www.academia.edu/10362108/Psychop ...
Lecture Series
Further Mesopotamian Commentaries
Time
02/10/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Stefan M. Maul (Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
Remarks
The earliest commentaries on scientific texts which we have are from Babylonia, from the 7th century BCE, and although quite brief and cryptic, and often fragmentary, they form a substantial corpus of cuneiform texts, approximately 200 manuscripts in total. Many of these commentaries concern astronomy/astrology, lexicography, divination, and medicine, the majority of which have not been edited or translated. The methodologies of Babylonian commentaries have much in common with later Greek scholiasts, Rabbinic hermeneutics, Christian exegesis, and Islamic Tafsir, which is why the Dahlem seminar series intends to examine sample texts in Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and even Chinese. Each week an expert in these fields will be asked to present a text in translation and in the original, as a basis for comparison with texts in other languages but written with similar purposes in mind, to interpret and explain science.
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26411/ ...
Talk
Aristotle on the Motion of Bodies: Some New Perspectives
Time
02/06/2015
14:00
Location
Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10099 Berlin
Lecturer
Dr. Ido Yavetz
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/28636/ ...
valleriani@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture Series
Commentary as Construction
Time
02/03/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Markus Asper (Institut für Klassische Philologie, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Remarks
The earliest commentaries on scientific texts which we have are from Babylonia, from the 7th century BCE, and although quite brief and cryptic, and often fragmentary, they form a substantial corpus of cuneiform texts, approximately 200 manuscripts in total. Many of these commentaries concern astronomy/astrology, lexicography, divination, and medicine, the majority of which have not been edited or translated. The methodologies of Babylonian commentaries have much in common with later Greek scholiasts, Rabbinic hermeneutics, Christian exegesis, and Islamic Tafsir, which is why the Dahlem seminar series intends to examine sample texts in Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and even Chinese. Each week an expert in these fields will be asked to present a text in translation and in the original, as a basis for comparison with texts in other languages but written with similar purposes in mind, to interpret and explain science.
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26411/ ...
Time
01/28/2015
09:00 - 16:00
Links
http://www.archiv-berlin.mpg.de/wiki/deu ...
mpg-archiv@archiv-berlin.mpg.de
Lecture Series
Commentaries on the Book of Nature: Some Comments on Script and Worldview in Mesopotamia and Greece
Time
01/27/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Sebastian Fink (Universität Innsbruck, Österreich)
Remarks
The earliest commentaries on scientific texts which we have are from Babylonia, from the 7th century BCE, and although quite brief and cryptic, and often fragmentary, they form a substantial corpus of cuneiform texts, approximately 200 manuscripts in total. Many of these commentaries concern astronomy/astrology, lexicography, divination, and medicine, the majority of which have not been edited or translated. The methodologies of Babylonian commentaries have much in common with later Greek scholiasts, Rabbinic hermeneutics, Christian exegesis, and Islamic Tafsir, which is why the Dahlem seminar series intends to examine sample texts in Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and even Chinese. Each week an expert in these fields will be asked to present a text in translation and in the original, as a basis for comparison with texts in other languages but written with similar purposes in mind, to interpret and explain science.
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26411/ ...
Lecture Series “Glas und Glasproduktion in ur- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit”
Glass in the Prehistoric North
Time
01/27/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal, Schwendenerstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Jeanett Varberg
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26387/ ...
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
The Problem of Color, or the Color Problem? American Dermatology, Melanin, and the Metrics of Liberation
Time
01/27/2015
11:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Research Group “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
J. Cecilia Cárdenas-Navia
Links
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Regulating the Advancement of Knowledge: Printing Privileges in the Early Dutch Republic
Time
01/26/2015
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Marius Buning (MPIWG)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Technical Art History Talk Series
Technical Art History and Materials as Markers, a 16th-Century Material Travel Log
Time
01/26/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPRG “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe” and the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the University of Glasgow
Lecturer
Erma Hermens (University of Glasgow)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
Models, Modeling, and Knowledge Transfer in Japanese Crafts of the Early Modern Era
Time
01/20/2015
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Christine Guth (Royal College of Art, London)
Links
Lecture Series
Palaea Historica
Time
01/20/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
William Adler (North Carolina State University)
Remarks
The earliest commentaries on scientific texts which we have are from Babylonia, from the 7th century BCE, and although quite brief and cryptic, and often fragmentary, they form a substantial corpus of cuneiform texts, approximately 200 manuscripts in total. Many of these commentaries concern astronomy/astrology, lexicography, divination, and medicine, the majority of which have not been edited or translated. The methodologies of Babylonian commentaries have much in common with later Greek scholiasts, Rabbinic hermeneutics, Christian exegesis, and Islamic Tafsir, which is why the Dahlem seminar series intends to examine sample texts in Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and even Chinese. Each week an expert in these fields will be asked to present a text in translation and in the original, as a basis for comparison with texts in other languages but written with similar purposes in mind, to interpret and explain science.
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26411/ ...
Technical Art History Talk Series
The Technical Examination of Old Master Drawings
Time
01/19/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPRG “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe” and the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the University of Glasgow
Lecturer
David Saunders (The British Museum, London)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Testimony/Bearing Witness. Current Controversies and Historical Perspectives
Time
01/15/2015 - 01/17/2015
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Philosophie, Habelschwerdter Allee 30, 14195 Berlin (Dahlem)
Remarks
Testimony and bearing witness are key figures in cultural and epistemological practices. Within current debates in the humanities both have turned into controversial concepts that convey seemingly incommensurate claims: On the one hand, testimony is seen as a reliable source of information and knowledge, as a piece of evidence promising objectivity (predominantly in discourses of epistemology and law). On the other hand, bearing witness carries ethical and political reflections in terms of memory and history (for instance in the testimonies of survivors of genocide and extreme violence). We are even confronted with diverse epistemological ambitions and methodological trajectories: At one end of the spectrum a general concept of testimony as knowledge through the words of others, is reflected; at the other end, there is a skepticism towards general definitions, combined with the desire to shape figures of bearing witness by tracing their manifold sources in religion and cultural history. This conference aims to channel the debate on bearing witness and giving testimony especially towards those aspects that appear precarious and controversial between philosophy and cultural history: What are the opportunities and limits involved in communicating epistemological and ethical, philosophical and cultural-historical, past and present perspectives on the phenomenon and concept of testimony and bearing witness?
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Words, Diagrams, Images and the Problems Surrounding Scientific Images. With the Kepler-Fludd Controversy as a Case Study
Time
01/14/2015
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Christoph Lüthy (Radboud Universität Nijmegen, Niederlande)
Links
http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/2.0/course/ ...
Lecture Series
Kommentare zu den biologischen Werken des Aristoteles
Time
01/13/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Arnaud Zucker
Remarks
The earliest commentaries on scientific texts which we have are from Babylonia, from the 7th century BCE, and although quite brief and cryptic, and often fragmentary, they form a substantial corpus of cuneiform texts, approximately 200 manuscripts in total. Many of these commentaries concern astronomy/astrology, lexicography, divination, and medicine, the majority of which have not been edited or translated. The methodologies of Babylonian commentaries have much in common with later Greek scholiasts, Rabbinic hermeneutics, Christian exegesis, and Islamic Tafsir, which is why the Dahlem seminar series intends to examine sample texts in Akkadian, Aramaic, Greek, Latin, Syriac, Arabic, and even Chinese. Each week an expert in these fields will be asked to present a text in translation and in the original, as a basis for comparison with texts in other languages but written with similar purposes in mind, to interpret and explain science.
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26411/ ...
Technical Art History Talk Series
Technical Art History and its Relation to the Conservation of Art on Paper
Time
01/12/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPRG “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe” and the Freie Universität Berlin in cooperation with the University of Glasgow
Lecturer
Georg Josef Dietz (Kupferstichkabinett, SMB, Berlin)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Das medizinische Gutachten. Genre und Praxis in der Geschichte (16.-20. Jahrhundert)
Time
01/07/2015 - 01/08/2015
09:30 - 19:00
Location
Zentrums für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin (Zfl), Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, 3. Floor
Organizers
Volker Hess
Remarks
Registration by 20 December 2015 via Email is required
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Lecture Series
Hermeneutics and Exegetical Terminology in Akkadian Commentaries and Early Midrash
Time
01/06/2015
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Uri Gabbay
Remarks
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