Events

Upcoming events

• September 22, 2026: Denkraum Ruhr Wupper (in Wuppertal)
• September, 2026: Workshop “Mathematics in Germany in the 20th Century”
• September 10-11, 2026: Workshop “Euclid in the vernacular. Cross-cultural transmission, adaptation and transformation of Euclid’s Elements in early modern Europe”
• June 10, 2026: Gender&Science Talk with Tanja Paulitz
• April 22-May 20, 2026: IZWT Lecture Series “Nukleare Zäsuren?”

Regular events

• summer term: Wednesday: IZWT Colloquium at 4.30 pm or IZWT Lecture Series at 6 p.m.
• Thursdays on a regular basis at 10.15 a.m.: Advanced seminar: History of Mathematics (IZWT)
• every 3rd Thursday of the month: AG Epistemische Autoritäten (discussion group and reading circle via Zoom)
• once per month: Quanti Club (discussion group of PhDs about quantitative methods)

Previous events

• March 2026: Workshop “New Structures in / for / of Mathematics, 1940s-1960s” (in Cambridge)
• February 25-27, 2026: Conference “Gartenräume und Wissenswelten“
• February 25-27, 2026: Workshop on “Sexual Harrasment” with Deborah Ruggieri
• February 23, 2026: Workshop “Networking” with Rebecca Waldecker
• February 11-12, 2026: Study Days
• February 10, 2026: Denkraum Ruhr Wupper (in Bochum)
• February 9, 2026: Phyton Crasjkurs
• January 22, 2026: Workshop “Wissenschaftskommunikation” with Annette Leßmöllmann
• January 19, 2026: Workshop “Vortragstechniken” with Anja Dierkes
• January 13, 2026: Colloquium on History of Science in the Early Modern Period – Christoph Sander
• December 18, 2025: Poster workshop with Hanna Rauch
• December 16, 2025: Colloquium on History of Science in the Early Modern Period – Martina Ravaioli
• November 13, 2025: Workshop “KI” with Thomas Hermann
• November 4-5, 2025: Workshop “Science, Values, and Institutions”
• October 23-24, 2025: Workshop “Science Journalism” with Jan-Martin Wiarda
• October 1, 2025: Denkraum Ruhr Wupper
• September 18-19, 2025: Workshop “Epistemic Authorities” with Sabrina Engert and Tim Lork
• September 15-16, 2025: Individual coachings with Rebecca Waldecker
• September 1-5, 2025: Summer School “Narratives of Disruption and Continuity in Science, Technology, and Society”
• July 16, 2025: Denkraum Ruhr Wupper
• July 9, 2025: Workshop “Social Network Analysis” with Lucas Gautheron
• July 8, 2025: Colloquium on History of Science in the Early Modern Period – Simon Sieminianowski
• June 17, 2025: Workshop “How to conduct an interview” with Jasmin Dierkes
• June 2 + July 9, 2025: Workshop “Wissenschaftsmanagement” with Frank Ziegele (CHE)
• May 26-27, 2025: Workshop “Materialien des Forschens und Lernens – Instrumente, Modelle und Wissensdinge aus historischer und soziologischer Perspektive“
• May 22-23, 2025: Workshop “Euclid’s Elements and Practical Mathematics in Early Modern Europe” with Angela Axworthy and Thomas Morel
• May 20, 2025: Colloquium on History of Science in the Early Modern Period – Sophie-Luise Mävers-Persch
• May 13, 2025: Talk by Colleen Seidel: Narratives of Female Physicists and Mathematicians in (West)German Textbooks
• May 7-June 4, 2025: IZWT Lecture Series “Bedrohte Wissenschaftsfreiheit“
• May 7, 2025: Workshop “Teambuilding” with Jasmin Dierkes
• April 11, 2025: Workshop “Research Integrity” with Hanne Anderson, Federico Boem, Yasemin J. Erden, Miles MacLeod, Cyrus Mody
• March 27-28, 2025: Workshop “Scientific Pluralism, Epistemic Diversity, and Progress in Science”
• March 20-21, 2025: Study Days
• February 5, 2025: Denkraum Ruhr Wupper
• February 3, 2025: Workshop “Historical Institutionalism” with Thomas Heinze
• January 27, 2025: Gender & Science Talk with Dr. Mirjam Faissner 
• January 20, 2025: Q&A on “Academic carreers” with GRK PIs
• January 14, 2025: Colloquium on History of Science in the Early Modern Period – Marian Füssel
• January 13, 2025: Berufstage-Q&A with Philipp Sesterhenn (DFG)
• December 11, 2024: Workshop “LaTeX” with Lucas Gautheron
• December 10, 2024: Colloquium on History of Science in the Early Modern Period – Christine Beese
• December 4, 2024: Berufstage-Q&A with Frida Trotter (Birkhäuser Verlag)
• December 3, 2024: History of Mathematics Wuppertal presents: “Book launches”
• November 19,2024: Colloquium on History of Science in the Early Modern Period – Julia Schmidt-Funke
• September 16-18, 2024: Workshop on Methodological Transformations in Fundamental Physics
• July 23-24, 2024: Workshop “KI” by Tobias Zervosen
• June 20, 2024: Workshop “Präsentieren und Moderieren” by Anja Adamczyk
• June 12 – July 3, 2024: IZWT Lecture series “Wissenschaftliches Fehlverhalten“
• June 5, 2024: Talk “Vom Patent zur App: Die Karriere der Personenwaage” by Debora Frommeld
• May 6, 2024: Workshop “How to use AI for writing” with Radin Dardashti
• April 9, 2024: Workshop “Kurzpräsentation / Pitch des eigenen Forschungsprojektes” with Caterina Schürch
• March 13-15, 2024: Workshop Mathematics and Its Historiography in the Long Twentieth Century
• February 29, 2024: Workshop “Phyton” with Tim Lork
• February 21, 2024: Ruhr Wupper Forum – 17. Promovierenden-Kolloquium zur Wissenschafts-, Technik- und Umweltgeschichte
• December 7-8, 2023: Study Days
• November 15, 2023: Talk “Anthropozängeschichte” by Sabine Höhler
• November 6+13, 2023: Workshop “Vortragstechniken” with Anja Adamczyk
• September 24-29, 2023: Summer School “Collaboration and Interdisciplinarity in Science and Technology”
• Juni 26-27, 2023: Talk “From Scarcity to denialism” by Cyrus Mody (Mercator Fellow stay)
• June 15-16, 2023: Talk “Structure and development of 21st century science” by Hanne Andersen (Mercator Fellow stay)
• June 14 – July 5, 2023: IZWT Lecture series “Die Revolution unseres Weltbildes – zum 550. Geburtstag von Nikolaus Kopernikus”
• May 8, 2023: Workshop “How can we deal with structural injustice in academia?” with Anna Welpinghus
• April 27, 2023: Workshop “Networking” with Rebecca Waldecker
• January 12, 2023: Peer Group Meeting with Caterina Schürch
• November 29, 2022: Talk “Johannes Brengelmann oder die Akkumulation institutionellen Kapitals” by Lisa Malich

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