Department of History and Cultural Studies/

Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World

News & Events

April 10-11, 2025: Workshop "The Visual Scribe: Tables and Diagrams in Middle Eastern Manuscripts"

Feb 27, 2025

Employment: Postdoctoral Researcher, Ph.D. in Indology, Classical and Medieval Studies, History and Philosophy of Science, limited to 2 years, Max Planck Research Group (ASTRA)

Feb 26, 2025

25.02.2025, Heba Mahmoud Saad (Alexandria University), "Reconsidering the Mamluk Village: Readings on al-Dimashqī’s Filaḥa Manual", Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Feb 14, 2025

14.02.2025, Amit Deshmukh (MIT Institute of Design, Pune, India), "Mapping the Literary Evidences of Board Games in Medieval Marathi Literature", Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Feb 14, 2025

7. April 2025, Alex de Voogt (Drew University, New Jersey), "The Ludic Lexicon and the History of Games"

Jan 30, 2025

2 Predoc scholarships at the Freie Universität Berlin, in the field of Ancient Studies, BerGSAS, Deadline January 15, 2025

Dec 13, 2024

4.-6.-12.2024, Conference "Digital Ancient Near Eastern Studies" DANES24

Dec 04, 2024

December 11, 2024, Oliver Defaux (Università di Trento): "Counting the Years. Ptolemy and the Table of Kings", hosted by the Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies and Einstein Center Chronoi

Nov 05, 2024

January 15, 2025, Research Colloquium ZODIAC, the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Pouyan Rezvani, "Ptolemy's star catalogue in the medieval Islamic sources"

Oct 28, 2024

October 30, 2024, Research Colloquium ZODIAC and the Institut für Wissensgeschichte des Altertums: Jeffrey Kotyk, "The zodiac signs in East Asian mandalas"

Oct 28, 2024

December 4, 2024, Research Colloquium ZODIAC, the Institut für Wissensgeschichte and the ASTRA Project, MPIWG: Robert Middeke-Conlin, "Another day at the office: Tracking epistemic change in the minutiae of daily work-life in ancient Mesopotamia"

Oct 28, 2024

October 31, 2024, Dr. Stephanie Dalley, "The Assyrian God Anshar: Loyalty and Perjury", Oxford Center for Hebrew and Jewish Studies

Oct 08, 2024

7.-9.10.2024, Philology in Practice: A Workshop with Professor Kenneth G. Zysk, ASTRA Project, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte Berlin

Oct 01, 2024

11.10.2024, "Performative Philology: Crafting Knowledge in Action", Astral Science in Trans-Regional Asia, MPIWG Berlin

Oct 01, 2024

18.11.2024, Berliner Antike im Leibniz-Saal, Morphologisierung der Geschichte

Sep 30, 2024

11.10.2024, Talk by Prof. Dr. Clemency Montelle, "History of Mathematics in the Indian Subcontinent", ASTRA Project, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Sep 25, 2024

9.10.24, Talk by Prof. Dr. Kenneth G. Zysk, "Garga’s Knowledge of the Crow (vāyasavidyā) and the Dawn of South Asian Ornithology", ASTRA Project, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte

Sep 25, 2024

2-4 October, 2024: ZODIAC Workshop “The Ancient Zodiac in a Cross-Cultural Perspective”

Sep 24, 2024

Call for Applications for the Doctoral Studies Program History and Cultural Studies (HCS), Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin

Sep 24, 2024

2 Scholarships for Doctoral Studies (October 2025 - September 2029) in the Doctoral Program "Ancient Objects and Visual Studies", Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS)

Jul 19, 2024