Vossius Research Fellow Alexander Dmitriev

Vossius Research Fellow Filip Buyse

Autumn issue History of Humanities journal

Issue 2.2 of the Vossius-sponsored journal “History of Humanities” is now online.

The issue contains a Forum section on the “Origins of Musical Disciplines”. As well as five research articles on the “History of Knowledge in the Age of Transition”, on “Otto Jespersen’s “Progress in Language””, on “The Dante of Alessandro Torri”, on “Gendered Philology”, and on “The Comparative Method in the Modern Humanities”. And not to forget, 13 book reviews. Read journal

Vacancies: 3 PhD positions UU

3 PhD positions ERC Consolidator project ‘Sharing Knowledge in Literary and Learned Networks. The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society, 1400-1800’. A brief summary of the entire research project is available on the website of Utrecht University.

• PhD position ‘History of concepts: digital discourse analysis of the Republic of Letters, 1400-1800’
• PhD position ‘Mining for learned identities in the Republic of Letters, 1400-1800’
• PhD position ‘The structure of the networks of the Republic of Letters, 1400-1800’

APES seminar: Nature in the Lab

4 October 16:00-18:00 Faculty Room Department of Philosophy

Massimiliano Simons (KU Leuven) will give the lecture "Nature in the lab: a philosophical analysis of constructivist claims in the new life sciences" in the APES Seminar series (Amsterdam Philosophy Encounters Science & Society). Read more

Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History: The Future of Intellectual History

10 October 15:00-18:00 Bushuis VOC room

The Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History will be inaugurated with a ‘roundtable conversation’ with specialists from different disciplinary backgrounds. 

The Classics of the Humanities II

20 October 9:30-17:00 Amsterdam

There are a few places left for the second workshop on The Classics of the Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. The workshop is intended as preparation for an edited volume. Thus, discussions at the workshop will be based upon the reading of introductory essays as well as primary sources, which will be circulated before the workshop. If you are interested in participating in the workshop, please send an email to rens.bod@uva.nl to receive these texts and further information about the location of the workshop in Amsterdam. Read more

Vossius Fund for Research Fellows open for applications

The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 1 October 2017. Applicants are invited to submit a proposal for obtaining a subsidy for research fellows. Read more