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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.
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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.
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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)
Links
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)
Links
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.)
Links
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
Links
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.
Links
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)
Links
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)
Links
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.
Links
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)
Links
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.
Links
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)
Links
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
Links
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
Links
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)
Links
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)
Links
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)
Links
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.
Links
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)
Links
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
Links
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.
Links
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)
Links
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.
Links
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.
Links
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)
Links
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
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/ ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
On Materiality and Epistemic Things
Time
12/16/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (MPIWG)
Links
Lecture Series
Babylonian and Assyrian Text Commentaries: History, Typology, and Structure
Time
12/16/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Eckart Frahm
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
Damage
Time
12/15/2014
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
Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Between the Old and the New Organon: The Library of the Maurokordati and the Book of Nature
Time
12/14/2014 - 12/15/2014
Location
SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstraße 8, Sitzungsraum, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Workshop
Models of Cooperation and Competition in the Sciences
Time
12/12/2014
11:00
Location
ICI Berlin, Christinenstr. 18-19, Haus 8 D-10119 Berlin
Remarks
Please register by December 5.
Links
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/649/ ...
Time
12/12/2014 - 12/13/2014
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Time
12/11/2014 - 12/12/2014
10:00
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Lecture Series
“Seine Deutung ist ...”: Frühjüdische Bibelkommentare aus Qumran
Time
12/09/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Markus Witte (Seminar für Altes Testament, 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/ ...
Technical Art History Talk Series
Technical Art History: A Farewell to the Humanities?
Time
12/08/2014
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
Arjan de Koomen (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Public Colloquium
Berlin Doctoral Forum for the History of Science
Time
12/05/2014
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Anke te Heesen, Philipp van der Eijk (HU Berlin), Friedrich Steinle (TU Berlin), Viktoria Tkaczyk (MPIWG / HU Berlin), Veronika Lipphardt, Sven Dupré (MPIWG / FU Berlin)
Remarks
Please register by email no later than December 1, 2014.
Links
officelipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Institutionalization of Science in Early modern Europe
Time
12/04/2014 - 12/05/2014
Location
MPI for the History of Science, Boltzmannstr. 22 (first day), Fritz-Haber Villa, Faradayweg 8 (side entrance Hittorfstraße), 14195 Berlin (second day)
Remarks
Participation is open, but space is limited. It would be very helpful if you could signal your participation in the workshop at your earliest convenience.
Links
Time
12/04/2014 - 12/05/2014
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
alexandra.stellmacher@fu-berlin.de
Time
12/02/2014
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Lecture Series
Commentaries and Commentarial Texts in Ancient Egypt
Time
12/02/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Alexandra von Lieven (Freie Universität 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/ ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Knives, Saws, and Hands. Dichotomies of Surgical Design and Knowledge (ca. 1400–1600)
Time
12/01/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Jack Hartnell (MPIWG/V&A, The Courtauld Institute of Art, London)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Stoffwechsel. Histories of Metabolism
Time
11/28/2014 - 11/29/2014
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin
Lecturer
Angela Creager, Hannah Landecker, Victoria Lee, Kärin Nickelsen, Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Maria Jesus Santesmases, Heiko Stoff
Remarks
Everyone is invited to join. If you're interested, please register with Mathias Grote (s. mail address below)
Links
Conference
Self-Translation as Transfer of Knowledge
Time
11/27/2014 - 11/29/2014
Location
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, 3rd floor, Trajekte-Tagungsraum
Lecturer
Stefan Willer, Andreas Keller, Sietske Fransen, Robert Leigh, Staffan Müller-Wille, Héctor Canal Pardo, Dagmar Stöferle, Dirk Weissmann, Pawel Jarnicki, Cornelius Borck, Caroline Sauter, Knut Martin Stünkel, Pascal Roure, Patricia Gwozdz, Ronja Tripp, Maria Oikonomou
Remarks
Conference languages are English and German
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Orientalism and Philology around 1900
Time
11/26/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Henning Trüper (TU Berlin)
Links
http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/2.0/course/ ...
Lecture Series
Sanskrit Commentaries in a Comparative Perspective
Time
11/25/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Jens Braarvig
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
“Age Is Unnecessary”: Adam and Eve, Shakespeare, and the End of Life
Time
11/24/2014
18:00
Location
Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Saal, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, Potsdamer Straße 33, 10785 Berlin
Lecturer
Stephen Greenblatt (Harvard University, Wissenschaftskollegs zu Berlin)
Remarks
After the talk a reception will be held. In addition, there will also be an exhibition on the historical illustrations of “Adam and Eve” motifs. Please register if you like to attend.
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
Lecture
Travelling Controversy: Mālikī Networks and the Diffusion of Critiques of al-Ghazālī’s Revival of the Religious Sciences
Time
11/24/2014
15:00 - 17:00
Location
SFB-Villa, Schwendenerstraße 8, Sitzungsraum, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Lecturer
Prof. Ken Garden (Tufts University)
Remarks
The burning of al-Ghazālī’s The Revival of the Religious Sciences (Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn) in Cordoba in 1109 - during the author’s lifetime - is well known, and has been taken as evidence both of the rapid diffusion of that epochal work from one end of the Islamic world to the other and of the aberration of the Islamic West in its reaction to the work. In fact, the violent rejection of the Revival in al-Andalus followed a pattern. This paper will explore the rapid transfer of both al-Ghazālī’s masterpiece and the controversies it engendered within three years through networks of Mālikī scholars from Khoresan to Alexandria to Ifriqīya to Cordoba.
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Marcus Bierich Lecture in the Humanities
Lucretius and the Toleration of Intolerable Ideas
Time
11/22/2014
11:00
Location
American Academy Berlin, Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109 Berlin-Wannsee
Lecturer
Stephen Greenblatt
Links
http://www.americanacademy.de ...
Workshop
Constructing Hellenism in Classical Islam and Renaissance Europe: Transfer, Appropriation and Transformation
Time
11/21/2014 - 11/22/2014
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Main Building (Hauptgebäude), Unter den Linden 6, Room 3071
Organizers
Han Lamers (HU Berlin / UGent)
Remarks
All are welcome to participate! Places are limited, so registration is required. To register, please e-mail Han Lamers before 15 November 2014.
Links
International Workshop
Beyond reclaiming the past: transmission, reception and revival of texts and iconography in Late Period Egypt
Time
11/21/2014 - 11/23/2014
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Villa SFB 980 – Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Prof. Dr. Jochem Kahl (SFB980 / A02, Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schenkel (Tübingen Universität), Dr. Elsa Rickal (Louvre Museum), MA Michaela Engert, Dr. Antonio J. Morales (SFB980 / A02, Freie Universität Berlin), Prof. Dr. Susanne Bickel (Basel Universität), Dr. Ramadan Hussein (Tübingen Universität), PD Dr. Alexandra von Lieven (Freie Universität Berlin / Münster Universität, Germany), MA Svenja Gülden (Mainz Universität, Germany), Dr. Ines Köhler (Sächsische Akademie zu Leipzig, Germany), Prof. Dr. Elena Pischikova (South Asasif Conservation Project, USA)
Remarks
Organised by research project SFB 980 “Episteme in Bewegung” and its group A02 “Altägyptische Philologie.”
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Eine Genealogie eines Gens: Patent, HIV/Aids, und Rasse
Time
11/19/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Myles W. Jackson, (American Academy of Berlin / New York University)
Links
http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/2.0/course/ ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
Craftwork as Problem Solving: Studies with Fine-woodwork Trainees and Instructors at London’s Building Crafts College
Time
11/18/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Trevor Marchand (School of Oriental & African Studies, London)
Links
Lecture Series
Al-Nayrizi's Commentary on the Elements – Problems of Interpretation
Time
11/18/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Sonja Brentjes
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 Production and the Medieval Silk Road: Analytical Approaches, Limitations and Perspectives
Time
11/18/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal, Schwendenerstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Julian Henderson
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26387/ ...
Technical Art History Talk Series
‘Held up to the light’: Material Mimesis and Cross-Cultural Technologies in Italy, c.1400–c.1600
Time
11/17/2014
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
Marta Ajmar (Victoria and Albert Museum, London)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
11/15/2014
09:00 - 18:30
Links
bwg.publicrelations@hu-berlin.de
https://www.interdisciplinary-laboratory ...
Workshop
Unusual Lives: Historicizing Life as a Problem of Knowledge
Time
11/14/2014 - 11/15/2014
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, room 120
Organizers
Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge: Teri Chettiar, Rohan Deb Roy, Michael Stanley-Baker
Lecturer
Anna Andreeva (Universität Heidelberg), David Armstrong (Kings College), Jenny Bangham (MPIWG), Teri Chettiar (HU), Isabel Gabel (Columbia), Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard), Jutta Müller-Tamm (FU), Hugh Raffles (The New School), Sophia Roosth (Harvard), Michael Stanley-Baker (MPIWG), Claudia Stein (Warwick) and Roger Cooter (UCL)
Remarks
The workshop is open to anyone who would like to attend.
Links
Time
11/14/2014 - 11/15/2014
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Leibniz-Sozietät der Wissenschaften, Public Conference
Natur und Nation, Bewusstsein und Selbstbewusstsein bei Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Time
11/13/2014
10:00 - 17:30
Location
Rathaus Tiergarten, Mathilde-Jacob-Platz 1, 10551 Berlin, BVV-Saal
Lecturer
Ulrich Busch, Hans-Otto Dill, Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski, Herbert Hörz, Achim Jähne, Günter Krause, Hans-Christian Rauh, Heinz-Jürgen Rothe, Christa Uhlig, Siegfried Wollgast, Rainer E. Zimmermann
Links
http://leibnizsozietaet.de/ ...
Time
11/13/2014 - 11/15/2014
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Lecture
Listening to Music under a Dictatorship: A Plea for an Ecological Micro-History
Time
11/13/2014
18:00
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Am Kupfergraben 5, Hörsaal 501
Lecturer
Esteban Buch (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales de Paris)
Remarks
An event organised by the HU in cooperation with “Hörwissen im Wandel.”
Links
http://www.hoer-wissen-im-wandel.de/arbe ...
Lecture Series “Glas und Glasproduktion in ur- und frühgeschichtlicher Zeit”
Scientific Perspectives on the Glas Production of the 1st Millennium AD in Europe and the Near East
Time
11/13/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Freie Universität Berlin, Hörsaal, Schwendenerstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Ian Freestone
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/26387/ ...
Lecture
“Move swift as the wind” – Body Techniques and Innovation in the Development of Early Weaponry
Time
11/12/2014
18:15 - 19:45
Location
Topoi Building Mitte, 1.03, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10099 Berlin
Lecturer
Dr. Christian Horn, Institute for Prehistoric and Protohistoric Archaeology, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/27053/ ...
Time
11/12/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Links
sekretariat@berliner-antike-kolleg.de
http://berliner-antike-kolleg.org/event/ ...
Lecture Series
Examples of Commentaries from Ancient Egypt
Time
11/11/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
David Alan Warburton (Topoi)
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/ ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Preserving and Recycling Knowledge: Coloured Glass in the Netherlands, 1650–1800
Time
11/10/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Marieke Hendriksen (MPIWG, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
11/06/2014 - 11/08/2014
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Time
11/06/2014 - 11/07/2014
Links
officelipphardt@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
http://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/PDF/2014_ ...
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Medical Demography in Interwar Angola. Measuring and Negotiating Health, Reproduction and Difference
Time
11/05/2014
11:00 - 13:00
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
Samuël Coghe
Links
Lecture
A catch-all-recipe book from 16th century Palestine: Hayyim Vital, Practical Kabbalah and Alchemy
Time
11/05/2014
14:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Library, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Gerrit Bos, Universität zu Köln
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/27312/ ...
Bosch Public Policy Lecture
The Genealogy of a Gene: Patents, HIV/AIDS, and Race
Time
11/04/2014
19:30
Location
American Academy Berlin, Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109 Berlin-Wannsee
Lecturer
Myles Jackson
Links
http://www.americanacademy.de ...
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
From Anatomical Collection to National Museum, ca. 1895: or How Women´s Pelvises and Skulls Began to Speak the Language of Mexican National History
Time
11/04/2014
10:30 - 12:30
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
Laura Cházaro García
Links
Time
11/04/2014
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Lecture Series
Commentaries in Rabbinic Literature
Time
11/04/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Zentrum für Jüdische Studien
Lecturer
Daniel Boyarin (Berkeley, University of California, USA)
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/ ...
Presentation
Sibling Logic. The Genealogical Structure of Modernity
Time
11/03/2014
18:00
Location
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, 3rd floor, Trajekte-Tagungsraum
Lecturer
Stefani Engelstein (University of Missouri)
Remarks
In the eighteenth century, Europeans began to classify historical systems genealogically, turning contemporary terms in these systems – whether languages, religions, races, species, or individuals – into siblings of varying degrees. This genealogical theory came to structure the modern subject, modern state, and methodologies of the life- and human-sciences. In this talk, I will explore the implications of this genealogical structure in both comparative philology and evolutionary theory of the long nineteenth century, and will analyze Goethe’s early interrogation of the system in Iphigenia auf Tauris. Within a language family, a sister language is a boundary object whose delineation enables, and yet simultaneously calls into question, the definition of any particular language; the speaking sibling puts similar pressure on the notion of the subject. Darwin turned naturalist epistemology on its head by endorsing this same contingency in biological classification. To reinforce threatened boundaries, both linguistics and evolutionary theory embraced unidirectional diversification, repudiating merger as »monstrous,« thus participating in an affective rhetoric also implicated in policing the genealogical boundaries between population groups.
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Workshop
Authority in Ancient Religions and Sciences. Actors and Representations
Time
11/03/2014 - 11/04/2014
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Raum 2249 a
Remarks
Organised by the Topoi research group (b-5) Personal Authorisation of Knowledge
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/24362/ ...
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
The Postgenomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge after the Genome
Time
10/31/2014
11:00 - 13:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Research Group “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Jenny Reardon
Links
Conference
The Making of Useful Knowledge
Time
10/30/2014
09:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin Center for the History of Knowledge
Lecturer
Angela Creager, Karel Davids, Jonathan Harwood, Stephen Johnston, Ursula Klein, Thomas Morel, Giuditta Parolini, Cesare Pastorino, Gerhard Rammer, Simona Valeriani
Remarks
The workshop will examine case studies of the establishment and transfer of useful knowledge – be it theoretical, practical, codified, tacit and so on – across time and space, from the early modern period to the twentieth century. We are going to explore useful knowledge presenting examples related, for instance, to mining, agricultural science and practical mathematics. In general, we favour an integrated approach that explores fields as diverse as medicine, engineering or commerce. You are welcome to observe the workshop, but space is limited. Should you wish to attend, register with Nuria Monn.
Links
Presentation
Epigenetics and the Graphic Embryo
Time
10/29/2014
19:00
Location
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, Schützenstraße 18, 10117 Berlin, 3rd floor, Trajekte-Tagungsraum
Lecturer
Susan Squier (Pennsylvania State University)
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
The Role of Experimental Multi-Determination in Jean Perrin’s Work on Brownian Movement
Time
10/29/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Klodian Coko, (Indiana University / MPIWG Berlin)
Links
http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/2.0/course/ ...
Time
10/28/2014
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Lecture Series – Public Conference
Ancient Medical Encyclopaedia
Time
10/28/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 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/ ...
Technical Art History Talk Series
Johannes Vermeer’s Mastery of Spatial Illusion
Time
10/27/2014
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
Jørgen Wadum (National Gallery of Denmark)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Gynäkologie, Frauenheilkunde und heilkundige Frauen in medizinischen Diskursen und medizinischer Praxis der Spätantike
Time
10/27/2014 - 10/29/2014
Location
SFB-Villa, Sitzungsraum, Schwendenerstraße 8, 14195 Berlin; Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für klassische Philologie, Unter den Linden 6, Raum 2103
Remarks
The conference aims at discussing the emergence and transmission of gynaecological knowledge from different angles in ancient medical theory and practice. Beside the medical approach, we will consider cultural practices and socio-religious norms that enable and constrain the production and application of gynaecological know-how (e.g. certain taboos on examining or touching the female body, etc.). The role and function of female specialists (e.g. healers, midwives or wet-nurses) as objects and subjects within ancient medical discourses will also be elaborated in further detail.
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Workshop
The Optics of Giovan Battista Della Porta: A Reassessment
Time
10/24/2014 - 10/25/2014
Location
TU Berlin, Hauptgebäude, Straße des 17 Juni 135, 10623 Berlin
Organizers
Friedrich Steinle, Cesare Pastorino, Arianna Borrelli (TU Berlin), Giora Hona, Yaakov Zik (University of Haifa)
Lecturer
Riccardo Bellé, Arianna Borrelli, Tiemen Cocquyt, Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis, Sven Dupré, Willian Eamon, Robert Goulding, Albrecht Heefer, Giora Hon, Antoni Malet, A. Mark Smith, Yaakov Zik
Remarks
Giovanni Battista Della Porta (1535–1615) was a well-known Neapolitan man of science of the Late Renaissance whose interests included cryptography, horticulture, magnetism, pneumatics, alchemy, physiognomy, and theatre performance. He contributed to optics with his exceptionally popular Magia naturalis („Natural Magic“) and with the treatise De Refractione („On refraction“). Although his work was widely read and appreciated by contemporaries, historians of science have for the most part given a negative assessment of it. The present workshop will attempt to redress the balance, bringing together outstanding international experts to discuss Della Porta and his role within the history of early modern optics. It will investigate Della Porta's approach to experiment as it emerged from a close study of his optical work and the impact of his optical insights on contemporary theories.
Links
http://www.wissensgeschichte-berlin.de/s ...
Lecture
The Present of the Historian
Time
10/24/2014
17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Research Group “The Construction of Norms in 17th- to 19th-Century Europe and the United States”
Lecturer
Francois Hartog
Links
Conference
„Aristotle transferred – The Ancient Greek Commentaries on Aristotle and the Transfer of Knowledge“
Time
10/23/2014 - 10/25/2014
Location
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Eingang Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Remarks
The conference is held in English.
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Two Worlds of Physicists in Germany in the Early 20th Century
Time
10/22/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Zhu Huijuan, (Beijing / Bielefeld)
Links
http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/2.0/course/ ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
Strings and the History of Presence
Time
10/21/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Shigehisa Kuriyama (Harvard)
Links
Lecture Series
Medical Commentaries in the Ancient Greek and Latin Traditions
Time
10/21/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Heinrich von Staden
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/ ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
The Whiteness of Bones: Techniques and Aesthetics of the Skeleton, 1500–1800
Time
10/20/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Anita Guerrini (MPIWG, Oregon State University)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Reception
Launch of Department III “Artefacts, Action, and Knowledge”
Time
10/17/2014
17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Department III
Remarks
Please register at the office of department III.
Links
office_dept3@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Workshop
Human Impacts and Their Consequences
Time
10/17/2014
09:00 - 14:00
Location
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, John-Foster-Dulles-Allee 10, 10557 Berlin
Lecturer
Matt Edgeworth, Michael Ellis, Joyeeta Gupta, Rüdiger Kruse, Reinhold Leinfelder, Naomi Oreskes, Jürgen Renn, Andrew C. Revkin, Daniel D. Richter, Bernd M. Scherer, Christian Schwägerl, James P.M. Syvitski, Colin Waters, Mark Williams und Jan Zalasiewicz
Remarks
Entrance free. Please register.
Links
http://hkw.de/de/programm/projekte/2014/ ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
History and Philosophy of Interdisciplinarity
Time
10/15/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Hanne Andersen (Aarhus University/TU Berlin)
Links
http://www.isis.tu-berlin.de/2.0/course/ ...
Axel Springer Lecture
Toward a Quantitative History of Data
Time
10/14/2014
19:30
Location
American Academy, Am Sandwerder 17-19, 14109 Berlin
Lecturer
Daniel Rosenberg (University of Oregon)
Remarks
We live in a time of data. Around us, tools for creating, storing, communicating, and manipulating data grow ever more sophisticated and ubiquitous. Yet, the cultural and intellectual frameworks that underlie our present data-saturated condition are old, and their histories illuminate important aspects of the present. In his lecture, Daniel Rosenberg will explore the long history of data, stretching back to the seventeenth century, emphasizing its foundations in early modernity. By tracing the historical concept of “data,” Rosenberg examines implications of new data-driven approaches in the humanities, and argues that even our contemporary self-understanding is mediated by data-analytic techniques. An intellectual and cultural historian, Daniel Rosenberg writes on a wide variety of subjects, including the history of information since the eighteenth century. Rosenberg has held fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, Rutgers Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture, the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the Princeton University Council of the Humanities, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and Stanford Humanities Center, among others. Please register by Friday, October 10.
Links
http://www.americanacademy.de/home/progr ...
Lecture Series
Introduction into the fifth Dahlem Seminar on the History of Science in Antiquity
Time
10/14/2014
18:00 - 20:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Bibliothek, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Markham J. Geller (Topoi), Klaus Geus (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Freie Universität 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/ ...
Workshop “BabMed Seminar“
Diagnosis and Anatomy
Time
10/12/2014 - 10/14/2014
Location
Topoi-Haus Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Bibliothek
Links
http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/babm ...
babylonian-medicine@geschkult.fu-berlin.de
International Conference
Hautlichkeit – Gestalterische und wissenschaftliche Praktiken zur Oberfläche
Time
10/10/2014 - 10/11/2014
Location
BTK-Hochschule für Gestaltung, Bernburger Str. 24-25, 10963 Berlin
Links
http://www.btk-fh.de/hautlichkeit ...
Time
10/09/2014 - 10/10/2014
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Workshop
Mental Diseases in Ancient Medicine
Time
10/06/2014 - 10/08/2014
Location
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Klassische Philologie, room 2249a (“Marmorsaal”)
Remarks
In this workshop we want to concentrate just on that period of Greco-Roman medical thought, in which the psychological was well established as legitimate part of the domain of the medical practitioner and thinker (i.e., a consideration for aspects of personality and emotions as elements of the pathological picture), on the one hand; and on the emergence of the psychiatric disease or syndrome in the nosological discussions alongside physiological diseases, on the other. This involves discussion of key methodological problems, and close reading of relevant texts that present questions and obscurities. The workshop is free to attend, but registration is required for organisational purposes, and in order to gain access to the material for discussion. For registration please email our administrator, Dr Friederike Herklotz
Links
http://www.classicsmedicine.org/news/wor ...
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
The Secret of Stucco in Early Modern Italy
Time
09/29/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, seminar room
Organizers
RG Dupré
Lecturer
Yvonne Elet (MPIWG, Vassar College, NY)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Public Lecture
»Montage, mon beau souci«. On Godard and the Image as Symptom
Time
09/24/2014
18:00
Location
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308
Lecturer
Georges Didi-Huberman (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris)
Remarks
Unfortunately the lecture has to be cancelled.
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Public Lecture
Für eine Grammatologie der Bilder
Time
09/22/2014
18:00
Location
Zentrum für Literatur- und Kulturforschung Berlin, Schützenstr. 18, 10117 Berlin, Trajekte-Tagungsraum 308
Lecturer
Sigrid Weigel
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Workshop
Reading How-To
Time
09/19/2014 - 09/20/2014
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Sven Dupré (MPIWG), Elaine Leong (MPIWG), Doris Oltrogge (CICS)
Remarks
It is possible to observe the workshop, but space is limited, if you wish to attend please contact officedupré.
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Discussion
Synthetic Biology. Concepts, Values and Politics
Time
09/19/2014
19:30
Location
Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Christinenstraße 18/19, 10119 Berlin
Lecturer
Arnold Sauter, Rafael Pardo Avellaneda, Sheref S. Mansy, Röbbe Wünschiers, Kristin Hagen, Margret Engelhard, Georg Toepfer
Links
https://www.ici-berlin.org/event/614/ ...
Conference
Visions in Science – Bridge the Gap
Time
09/18/2014 - 09/20/2014
Location
Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Charitéplatz 1, 10117 Berlin
Links
http://www.visions-in-science.org/vision ...
Time
09/18/2014 - 09/20/2014
Links
marsundmuseumconference@gmail.com
http://www.cmb.hu-berlin.de/events/mars- ...
Institute’s Colloquium: Materialities
The Skeleton as Object and Artefact in Early Modern Europe
Time
09/16/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Nina Lerman
Lecturer
Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University)
Links
International Workshop
Humboldts Sprachwissenschaft in Ost-Europa
Time
09/12/2014
10:00 - 17:00
Location
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt K2, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Remarks
Please register until September 8, if you like to attend the workshop.
Links
http://www.bbaw.de/veranstaltungen/2014/ ...
Time
09/07/2014 - 09/08/2014
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Nonhuman Empires
Time
09/03/2014
11:00 - 13:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, Research Group “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Rohan Deb Roy
Links
Conference
Sukzession in Religionen: Autorisierung – Legitimierung – Wissenstransfer
Time
08/26/2014 - 08/28/2014
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Reinhard Achenbach (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster), Stephan Peter Bumbacher (Universität Basel, Schweiz), Maya Burger (Université de Lausanne), Hubert Cancik (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier, Ute Eisen (Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen), Regula Forster (FU Berlin), Marco Frenschkowski (Universität Leipzig), Christoph Kleine, Karénina Kollmar-Paulenz (Universität Bern, Schweiz), Reinhard Kratz (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Volkhard Krech (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Alexandra von Lieven (FU Berlin), Bernhard Linke (Ruhr-Universität Bochum), Axel Michaels (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg), Tudor Sala (FU Berlin), Dorothea E. Schulz (Universität zu Köln), Ilinca Tanaseanu-Döbler (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen), Michael Tilly (Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen), Giuseppe Veltri (Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), Josef Wiesehöfer (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel)
Links
https://www.topoi.org/event/23001/ ...
Presentation
The Roaring ‘Twenties’: Noise in New York City circa 1930
Time
08/21/2014
18:30 - 20:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Lecturer
Emily Thompson (University of Princeton)
Remarks
Please register for attending the event (see contact below).
Links
lschuessler@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Presentation
Sound Signatures in Recorded Voices: Speaker Identification at the Stasi Headquarters, 1960s-1980s
Time
08/19/2014
18:30 - 20:30
Location
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Jägerstraße 22-23, 10117 Berlin, Einsteinsaal
Organizers
Viktoria Tkaczyk
Lecturer
Karin Bijsterveld (Maastricht)
Remarks
Please register for attending the event (see contact below).
Links
lschuessler@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Talk
Steuern, optimieren, disziplinieren. Verfahren der Selbstkontrolle in Kunst und Wissenschaft
Time
08/12/2014
18:30
Location
Museum für Kommunikation, Leipziger Str. 16, 10117 Berlin
Lecturer
Margarete Vöhringer
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Workshop
Meta-Scientific Foundations of Astronomy (IX-XVII Centuries) and Their Cultural-Institutional Settings
Time
08/11/2014 - 08/12/2014
Location
CRC Villa, Schwendenerstr. 8, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
Colloquium
10th Colloquium on «Modeling in Landscape Archaeology»
Time
07/28/2014
14:00 - 17:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/22062/ ...
Workshop
Perspectivization in Language. Source–Goal Asymmetry in Motion Events, Deixis, and Frames of Reference
Time
07/25/2014 - 07/26/2014
Location
Topoi Building Mitte, Hannoversche Straße 6, 10099 Berlin, R. 1.03
Links
http://www.topoi.org/event/22649/ ...
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Die Entdeckung des Higgs-Bosons
Time
07/18/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Adrian Wüthrich (TU Berlin)
Links
Discussion Series «Mensch im Raum — Probleme an der Schnittstelle von Natur- und Geisteswissenschaften»
Emergenz
Time
07/16/2014
12:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Links
https://www.topoi.org/event/25495/ ...
Discussion
Der Schatten des Fotografen. Bilder und ihre Wirklichkeit
Time
07/14/2014
20:00
Location
Museum für Fotografie, Jebenstraße 2, 10623 Berlin
Organizers
Kolleg-Forschergruppe Bild Evidenz. Geschichte und Ästhetik
Links
Babmed-Seminar
Astro-Medicine in some Arabic Lapidaries
Time
07/10/2014
16:00 - 18:00
Location
Topoi Building Dahlem, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Lecturer
Lucia Raggetti
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Anthropology at War: Robert H. Lowie and the Transformation of the Culture Concept, 1904–1954
Time
07/08/2014
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, Research Group “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Stefan Bargheer
Links
Scholars’ Forum
9th Scholars’ Forum Literature and History of Science
Time
07/04/2014
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 or Lorenz Becker.
Links
Conference
Iteration and/as Knowledge // Iteration und Wissenswandel
Time
07/03/2014 - 07/04/2014
Location
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Eingang Markgrafenstraße 38, 10117 Berlin-Mitte
Links
http://www.sfb-episteme.de/veranstaltung ...
http://www.sfb-episteme.de ...
Lecture Series “Europa in Globaler Perspektive”
Drei Dimensionen von Modellen: Kunst, Gelehrtentum und Staatswesen im China des 17. Jahrhundert
Time
07/03/2014
18:30
Location
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Einstein-Saal, Akademiegebäude am Gendarmenmarkt, Jägerstraße 22/23, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Lecturer
Dagmar Schäfer (MPIWG)
Links
http://jahresthema.bbaw.de/2013_2014/ver ...
Talk
Atomic Trash: Cold War & Global Histories of Re-commissioned Nuclear Physics Laboratories
Time
07/01/2014
18:00 - 21:00
Location
HU Berlin, Sophienstraße 22a, 2. OG, Zentraler Laborraum
Lecturer
Jahnavi Phalkey (King's College London)
Remarks
The third ever cyclotron (atom smasher) to be built in the USA (Rochester, 1938) was decommissioned and transferred to India (Chandigarh, 1965-67) where it functions to date with the bulk of its original parts. There are three such reborn equipment and refurbished laboratories that I am aware of: Rice University, Texas (1961) to Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico City (1980s); (ii) Rice University, Texas (1961) to Ruđer Bošković Institute, Zagreb (1980s); (iii) parts from The Berliner Elektronenspeicherring-Gesellschaft für Synchrotronstrahlung (BESSY) in Berlin to the SESAME Project in Jordan (1990s). These laboratory systems - often running into hundreds of square meters - were transferred from their original setting and reassembled in their host locations in a different country with new buildings and, often, a new research agenda. Given that the equipment was meant for research in nuclear physics and it went to developing countries during the Cold War – there is a global story that emerges from looking at this "atomic trash". This is equally, I argue, a story of re-imagination and recreation of the laboratory space, its design and even more so, of its purpose.
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Conference
Studies of Knowledge in Eurasia and Africa: Issues of Methodology and Future Perspectives
Time
06/30/2014 - 07/01/2014
09:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG (Departments I & III), FU Berlin
Lecturer
Dagmar Schäfer, Fa-ti Fan, Gottfried Hagen, Joachim Kurtz, Keren Abbou, Leigh Chipman, Michael Stanley-Baker, Miri Shefer-Mossensohn, Nahyan Fancy, Paulina Lewicki, Peter Adamson, Reza Pourjavady, Rivka Feldhay, Robert Morrison, Scott Mandelbrote, Sonja Brentjes, Tzvi Langermann, Uwe Vagelpohl
Links
Workshop
Testing Drugs and Trying Cures Workshop
Time
06/26/2014 - 06/27/2014
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPG Minerva Research Group, MPIWG Department II
Lecturer
Antonio Barrera-Osorio, Samir Boumediene, Michael Bycroft, Francesco Paolo de Ceglia, Harold Cook, Marta Hanson, Lauren Kassell, Michael McVaugh, Andrew Mendelsohn, Carla Nappi, Katharine Park, Gianna Pomata, Valentina Pugliano, Christelle Rabier and Evan Ragland
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Divide and Conquer: Human Nature between Science, Philosophy and Politics
Time
06/26/2014
14:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, Research Group “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Maria Kronfeldner
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Animate Embryos
Time
06/25/2014
18:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Janina Wellmann, (Universität Lüneburg)
Remarks
Embryology is the science of development. Historically, Christian Heinrich Pander and Karl Ernst von Baer are considered to be the founding fathers of the modern discipline in the first decades of the nineteenth century. In my talk, I will argue that understanding the ‚form of becoming’ in embryology required the establishment of a new conceptual framework, new experimental practices, observational techniques and new forms of visual representation of the living. I will trace visual and experimental techniques from the beginning of the nineteenth century to recent developments, from pictorial sequences to digital simulations of cell migration during embryogenesis. In particular, I will discuss the impact of new techniques of imaging and computing embryogenesis such as approaches of ‘in toto imaging’ on the understanding of embryological development in particular and on the biological concept of development in general.
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Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Giuseppe Salviati‘s Libro Dei Suoni: Painting and Knowledge in Late Renaissance Venice
Time
06/23/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin (Seminarraum)
Organizers
MPIWG, Max Planck Research Group “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Lecturer
Mattia Biffis (Casva, Washington DC)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Conference
Geometry and Mechanics
Time
06/23/2014 - 06/25/2014
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Richard Arthur (McMaster), Angela Axworthy (MPIWG), Michael Friedman (Stanford), Daniel Garber (Princeton), Antoni Malet (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Reviel Netz (Stanford), Marco Panza (CNRS, Paris), Helmut Pulte (Bochum), Matthias Schemmel (MPIWG), George Smith (Tufts)
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
The Accademia del Cimento: New Perspectives
Time
06/20/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Giulia Giannini, (Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris / MPIWG Berlin)
Remarks
Scientific academies are undoubtedly a great institutional novelty of the second half of the 17th century. Even though their history has been well explored, the Accademia del Cimento still remains a desideratum for the history of science, since it is neither correctly studied nor thoroughly and carefully explored. Founded in 1657 by Leopoldo of Tuscany the Accadema del Cimento was the first academy that existed in early modern period. It had a strangely short lifetime and a rather rapid development (1657–1667). The only publication availiable of the Academia del Cimento remains a single volume (Saggi di Naturali Esperienze, 1667) which comprises only a few of the experiments performed by their members. A novel, more careful and attentive investigation of the Cimento Academy is in order, an investigation that aims at revising deeply, if not subverting, what might be called the received vista of the nature, aims and scope of the Italian academy. In particular such an investigation cannot ignore a comparison between the Cimento and other scientific societies in Europe at that time nor the relations that the members of the Cimento academy maintained with the members of other scientific societies in Europe.
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Talk
What is a concept?
Time
06/16/2014
17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “The Construction of Norms in 17th- to 19th-Century Europe and the United States”
Lecturer
Jocelyn Benoist, Professor of Philosophy at the University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne
Remarks
In his book ‘Concepts. Introduction à l’analyse’ (Ed. du Cerf, 2010, rep. Flammarion, 2013), Jocelyn Benoist has put forward a theory of concepts drawing on the resources of the contemporary philosophy of language and mind. He treats concepts as normative structures defining the multifarious ways of our commitments to reality. He emphasizes their flexibility, their boundedness, and their historicity. Thus, he wants to lay the foundation for what he calls a contextualist philosophy of mind. In his talk he will summarize the essential results of the book. He will particularly focus on the problem of the ‘generality’ of concepts. He will debunk some usual misinterpretations of that essential property, and show how, if correctly interpreted, it squares with contextuality.
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Talk
Walther Nernst und die Entwicklung der Physikalischen Chemie
Time
06/16/2014
18:30
Location
Magnus-Haus, Am Kupfergraben 7, 10117 Berlin
Organizers
Dieter Hoffmann und Hans-Georg Bartel
Lecturer
Gerhard Ertl (Fritz Haber Institut Berlin)
Links
Talk
The Vulnerability of the Ordinay. Austin and Performativity
Time
06/16/2014
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Room 265
Organizers
Max Planck Research Group “The Construction of Norms in 17th- to 19th-Century Europe and the United States”
Lecturer
Sandra Laugier
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Historical Representation – Narratives, Metaphors and Models
Time
06/13/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Lecturer
Katherina Kinzel (Universität Wien)
Remarks
Hayden White famously argued that historical discourse takes a narrative form. He also claimed that narratives are in some sense epistemically deficient. This worry is based on his assumption that successful representation in history depends on the existence of structural similarities between the historical narrative and the sequence of actual historical events. Since such similarities cannot be identified, White concludes that narratives do not adequately or objectively represent the past; they allude to historical reality merely in metaphorical ways. White’s critics tried to avoid this conclusion either by denying the essentially narrative character of historiography (Noël Carroll) or by arguing that there do in fact exist structural similarities between (historical) narratives and (past) actions (David Carr). My own approach to the problem of historical representation takes a different route. Unlike Carroll, I do accept that historiography is narrative in character, but I reject the similarity account of historical representation that informs both White’s and Carr’s approaches. Building on contemporary pragmatic and inferentialist accounts of scientific representation (Bas Van Fraassen, Ronald Giere, Mauricio Suárez), I argue that historical narratives represent the past in a similar manner as scientific models represent their target domain: they exploit similarities and dissimilarities in selective and context-dependent ways in order to allow a user (reader) to draw informative inferences about the past. This approach to narratives, I argue, can make sense of many of the constructive features of historical discourse that were highlighted by White without buying into the more radical claim that historical narratives are epistemically deficient.
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Institute's Colloquium
Leibniz Editions and Narrative Repetition in the History of Science
Time
06/10/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, organised by David Sepkoski and Elaine Leong
Lecturer
Andre Wakefield (Pitzer College and MPIWG)
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
‘Fossil Man’ Conquers America: The American Museum of Natural History and the Rise of a Mass Culture of Deep Time
Time
06/06/2014
11:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, RG “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Marianne Sommer (University of Luzern)
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Divine Magnetism—Natural Philosophy and Magnetic Theology in the Seventeenth Century
Time
06/06/2014
16:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, H 7112
Organizers
TU Berlin, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Steinle
Lecturer
Koen Vermeir (CNRS, Université Paris Diderot / MPIWG Berlin)
Remarks
In this paper, I will study a curious offspring of the magnetic philosophy. In the wake of De Magnete, a fully systematised “magnetic theology” was developed by writers from both sides of the religious divide that ran across Europe. These writers formed a curious mishmash, according to current day standards, and included the poet John Donne, the natural philosopher Robert Boyle, the puritan preacher Samuel Ward, the prominent judge Matthew Hale, and the Jesuit mathematician Athanasius Kircher. In the course of my paper, I will analyse what these diverse figures had in common, so that they would all be interested to write on magnetic theology, as well as their different approaches to this subject. Beyond the confines of the history of magnetic theology, this will also allow me to detail crucial differences and changes in the early development of natural theology, when it emerged as a specific genre at the end of the 17th century.
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Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
“Dance as the Measure of Man”: Alan Lomax, Choreometrics, and the World Geography Movement
Time
06/05/2014
11:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, RG “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Whitney Laemmli (MPIWG, University of Pennsylvania)
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Regulating Susceptibilities: Helen MacMurchy and the Canadian Public Health Movement in the Interwar Years
Time
06/04/2014
14:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, RG “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Sarah Blacker (MPIWG, University of Alberta)
Links
Predoc Conference
Land Ahoy!
Time
06/02/2014
09:00 - 13:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin, Main Conference Room
Organizers
MPIWG, Department I
Lecturer
Paul Stefan Trzeciok, Anna Jerratsch, Rodolfo Garau, Hajime Inaba, Marta Jordi Taltavull, Martin Jähnert, Anna Perlina, Martin Fechner
Links
Time
06/02/2014
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Colloquium Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
On Euler’s Spherical Geometry
Time
05/28/2014
15:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Athanase Papadopoulos (Université de Strasbourg)
Links
Research Colloquium for the History of Science
Bodies on Paper – The Dance Notation Bureau and the Politics of Archiving Human Movement (1940-1975)
Time
05/28/2014
18:00
Location
TU Berlin, Straße des 17. Juni 135, 10623 Berlin, room H 6124
Lecturer
Whitney Laemmli (MPIWG)
Links
Conference
Language, Norms, and Forms of Life
Time
05/22/2014 - 05/23/2014
Location
Centre Marc Bloch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Organizers
In Cooperation with the Centre Marc Bloch, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
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Institute's Colloquium
Secundum Quid and Contingentia: Scholastic Concepts in Early Modern Physics
Time
05/20/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, organised by David Sepkoski and Elaine Leong
Lecturer
Pietro Omodeo (MPIWG)
Links
Time
05/15/2014 - 05/16/2014
Links
http://www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltunge ...
Colloquium Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Frege’s Grundlagen §64 and the Mathematical Practice of Definitions by Abstraction in the Nineteenth Century
Time
05/06/2014
15:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Paolo Mancosu (University of California, Berkeley)
Links
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Modeling, Experimenting, Conserving – Different Uses of Wax in Early Modern Anatomy
Time
05/05/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin (Seminarraum)
Organizers
MPIWG, Max Planck Research Group “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Lecturer
Jenny Boulboullé (MPIWG, University of Amsterdam)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Time
05/05/2014
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Colloquium Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Geometrizing World Images. How Geometry Shaped R.J. Boscovich’s Natural Philosophy
Time
04/29/2014
15:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Luca Guzzardi (Università di Pavia)
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Doomed to Die: Endangered Races, Science and Modern Settler Colonialism
Time
04/24/2014
14:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, RG “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Sadiah Qureshi (University of Birmingham)
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
The Greenberg Controversy: Studying Language and Prehistory in the Americas
Time
04/23/2014
14:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, RG “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Judith Kaplan (MPIWG)
Links
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Which Stones are Precious? Classification and Counterfeit in Early Modern Mineralogy
Time
04/14/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin (Seminarraum)
Organizers
MPIWG, Max Planck Research Group “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Lecturer
Michael Bycroft (MPIWG)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
The Telling of the Unattainable Attempt to Avoid the Casus Irreducibilis for Cubic Equations: Cardano’s De Regula Aliza
Time
04/08/2014
15:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Sara Confalonieri (Bergische Universität Wuppertal)
Links
Seminar Series “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Indigenous Biospecimens and the Cryopolitics of Frozen Life
Time
04/08/2014
11:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin, Room 005
Organizers
MPIWG, RG “Twentieth Century Histories of Knowledge About Human Variation”
Lecturer
Emma Kowal (University of Melbourne)
Links
Colloquium “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
The Mariani Treatise, Court Workshops and Books of Secrets in Late 16th-Century Italy: a Synergy of Art and Science
Time
03/31/2014
16:00
Location
MPIWG Villa, Harnackstraße 5, 14195 Berlin (Seminarraum)
Organizers
MPIWG, Max Planck Research Group “Art and Knowledge in Pre-Modern Europe”
Lecturer
Erma Hermens (MPIWG, University of Glasgow)
Links
officedupre@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Colloquium Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
L'enseignement de la Géométrie par Conrad Dasypodius, à Strasbourg, au XVIe Siècle
Time
03/25/2014
15:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Sabine Rommevaux (CNRS, Paris)
Links
Colloquium Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Renaissance Interpretations of the Geometrical Notion of “Rhusis”
Time
03/25/2014
15:00 - 18:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Angela Axworthy (MPIWG)
Links
Time
03/20/2014
19:00
Links
http://www.einsteinfoundation.de/de/meet ...
http://www.einsteinfoundation.de/fileadm ...
Talk
„Derartige kolossale Opfer“ – Rund um Einsteins Nobelpreis und ein wenig darüber hinaus
Time
03/19/2014
15:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, Department I
Lecturer
Barbara Wolff (Albert-Einstein-Archiv, Hebräische Universität Jerusalem)
Links
rennoffice@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de
Institute's Colloquium
Darwin on Paper: From Rags to Wood-Pulp
Time
03/18/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, organised by David Sepkoski and Elaine Leong
Lecturer
Jim Secord (University of Cambridge)
Links
Special Institute's Colloquium
The Future of Academic Publishing
Time
03/11/2014
14:30 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
David Sepkoski
Lecturer
Karen Darling (Senior Editor, University of Chicago Press), Matteo Valleriani (Research Group Leader, Department I, MPIWG), Jürgen Renn (Director, Department I, MPIWG), Lorraine Daston (Director, Department II, MPIWG), Dagmar Schäfer (Director, Department III, MPIWG), Urs Schoepflin (Head of Library, MPIWG)
Remarks
Please join us for a special Institute's Colloquium that will consider "The Future of Academic Publishing." Short presentations by Karen Darling (Science Studies editor at the University of Chicago Press) and our own Matteo Valleriani will consider the challenges facing the traditional model of academic publishing, including economy, marketing, and open access concerns. The presentations will be followed by a roundtable discussion featuring Lorraine Daston, Jürgen Renn, Dagmar Schäfer, and Urs Schoepflin. The program will conclude with questions from the audience.
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Colloquium Research Group “Modern Geometry and the Concept of Space”
Poincaré’s Creation of Algebraic Topology: “Reasoning Well from Badly Drawn Figures”
Time
03/11/2014
15:00 - 17:00
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Vincenzo de Risi
Lecturer
Claudio Bartocci (Università di Genova)
Links
Symposium
Nach Cassirer. Das Erkenntnisideal der Biologie und seine Wandlungen bis heute
Time
03/10/2014
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
Department I: Sascha Freyberg, Manfred Laubichler
Lecturer
Jesper Hoffmeyer, Frederik Stjernfelt, Horst Bredekamp, Georg Toepfer
Links
Time
03/03/2014
18:15
Links
http://staatsbibliothek-berlin.de/servic ...
christian.mathieu@sbb.spk-berlin.de
Institute's Colloquium
Hermann Bahr and the Interview–between Journalism and Social Sciences
Time
02/25/2014
15:00 - 16:30
Location
Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Boltzmannstraße 22, 14195 Berlin
Organizers
MPIWG, organised by David Sepkoski and Elaine Leong
Lecturer
Anke Te Heesen (Humboldt Universität)
Links