Department of History and Cultural Studies/

Institute for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World

News & Events

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

July 3-4, 2024, 3rd ENiM Workshop: Epistemic Practices in Literature, Lists, and Law

Jul 01, 2024

June 24-25, 2024, Workshop “The Whole World in a Book – Encyclopaedic Trends and Orders of Knowledge in Jewish and Other Premodern Traditions”, RFE-Nadiv Research Network, Lausanne University and Hybrid

Jun 24, 2024

July 5, 2024, Talk: Reviel Netz (Stanford University), "Scale, Space and Canon in Ancient Literary Culture", Theory Network

Jun 18, 2024

12. Juni 2024, Stamatina Mastorakou (MPIWG Berlin) "Unveiling the Celestial Imagery at the 'Philosopher’s Tomb' at Pella”, Research Colloquium Wissensgeschichte & ZODIAC

Jun 05, 2024

Andreas Winkler, staff member at the Institut for the History of Knowledge in the Ancient World, accepted a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Egyptology at the University of Toronto

Jun 03, 2024

5. Juli 2024: 3. Berliner Leseabend der toten Sprachen (LetoS), Call for Participation

May 27, 2024

Summer School "Language and Culture in the Borderlands of the Eastern Sillk Road", August 19-30, 2024, University of Vienna

May 22, 2024