BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//PYVOBJECT//NONSGML Version 1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20001029T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=10 TZNAME:CET TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20000326T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=-1SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:CEST TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20261109T150212Z - 17500@eu652a.odoo.com DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260318T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260318T213000 CREATED:20261109T150212Z DESCRIPTION:Women Who Chased The Sun\nOverview ⏱️Schedule: Doors 1 8:30 → Talk 19:00→ Q&A → Mingle 🌐Language: English In the 19th ce ntury\, solar eclipses turned astronomy into an adventure sport. Telescope s\, cameras and chemicals were packed onto ships and trains\; scientists t ravelled for weeks to stand in a narrow “path of totality” where\, for just a few minutes\, the Sun would disappear and a whole new sky would ap pear. A lot depended on those precious minutes not being cloudy. These exp editions have often been told as stories of “great men” and their disc overies. But look closer at the field notes\, letters and travel diaries\, and another picture appears: wives\, daughters\, amateur and observers wh o also travelled\, observed and wrote – and whose contributions were cen tral to how eclipse expeditions actually worked. In this talk\, a historia n of science from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in B erlin takes us into the world of Victorian eclipse chasing from the perspe ctive of the women who were there. Using archival material from real world expeditions\, she shows how women helped plan journeys\, set up instrumen ts\, record data and build communities around astronomy – often without formal job titles or institutional recognition. Together\, we’ll explore : Why chase eclipses at all? Why 19th-century astronomers were so obsessed with observing total solar eclipses\, and what they hoped to learn in tho se brief moments of darkness. Life on an eclipse expedition What was pract ically involved in organising and joining these journeys: travel\, logisti cs\, instruments – and where women showed up in that work. Who were the women in the field? The wives\, daughters\, association members and amateu rs who participated in expeditions\, and the different roles they carved o ut for themselves. Shaping science from the margins How these women used e xpeditions to engage with – and sometimes quietly reshape – [...] DTSTAMP:20261109T150212Z LOCATION:Vagabund Brauerei Kesselhaus\, Oudenarder Str. 16-20\, 13347 Berli n\, Alemania SUMMARY:Women Who Chased The Sun X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:Women Who Chased The Sun\nOverview ⏱️ Schedule: Doors 18:30 → Talk 19:00→ Q&A → Mingle 🌐Language: Engli sh In the 19th century\, solar eclipses turned astronomy into an adventure sport. Telescopes\, cameras and chemicals were packed onto ships and trai ns\; scientists travelled for weeks to stand in a narrow “path of totali ty” where\, for just a few minutes\, the Sun would disappear and a whole new sky would appear. A lot depended on those precious minutes not being cloudy. These expeditions have often been told as stories of “great men ” and their discoveries. But look closer at the field notes\, letters an d travel diaries\, and another picture appears: wives\, daughters\, amateu r and observers who also travelled\, observed and wrote – and whose cont ributions were central to how eclipse expeditions actually worked. In this talk\, a historian of science from the Max Planck Institute for the Histo ry of Science in Berlin takes us into the world of Victorian eclipse chasi ng from the perspective of the women who were there. Using archival materi al from real world expeditions\, she shows how women helped plan journeys\ , set up instruments\, record data and build communities around astronomy – often without formal job titles or institutional recognition. Together \, we’ll explore: Why chase eclipses at all? Why 19th-century astronomer s were so obsessed with observing total solar eclipses\, and what they hop ed to learn in those brief moments of darkness. Life on an eclipse expedit ion What was practically involved in organising and joining these journeys : travel\, logistics\, instruments – and where women showed up in that w ork. Who were the women in the field? The wives\, daughters\, association members and amateurs who participated in expeditions\, and the different r oles they carved out for themselves. Shaping science from the margins How these women used expeditions to engage with – and sometimes quietly resh ape – [...] END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR