Reading Group
Header image: Erste Promotion einer Frau (Elsa Neumann, 1872–1902) an der Universität Berlin 1899. Engraving of drawing by Ewald Thiel.
Past Events
This calendar lists current events in Berlin relating to the history of science and knowledge. For further information and new events, please contact: webred@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de.
Performative Lecture
Layers of Kin
Lecture
The Blindspot Machine
Workshop
Reconstructing the Ancient Chinese Sky: Constellations, Star Maps, and Celestial Records
Reading Group
Readings from "al-Durr al-Multaqat," a Fourteenth-Century Agriculture Text from Damascus
Talk
Crafting Luxury from the Sea: Shark Fin and the Making of Maritime Knowledge in Late Imperial China
Symposium
Crafted Forms, Skillful Doing
Reading
Tectonic Plates: Vorspeise (Public Reading)
Film Screening
Lakota Star Knowledge - Film Screening & Discussion
Reading Group
The Enchanted Basin in Mamluk Cairo: Medicine and Magic
Reading Group
The Sciences in the Mamluk Sultanate
Reading Group
Field Walls and Terraces in Mamluk Bilad al-Sham
Talk
Ancient Egyptian Medicine: Perceptions from Different Points of View
Talk
Farming with Household Trash in Late Medieval Syria
Reading Group