Vossius Research Fellow Jos Uffink
Jos Uffink joins the Vossius Center in August 2018 for three months as a Research Fellow with two projects 'Tatiana Afanassjewa’s work' and 'Schrödinger’s development of the concept of entanglement'.
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Vossius member Floris Solleveld obtains FWO grant
Vossius member Floris Solleveld has obtained a three-year postdoctoral fellowship from the Flemish Research Council (FWO) for his research project Gathering Language: Language atlases, comparative grammars, and ethnolinguistic classification in the long 19th century.
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Conference of the Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences
4-7 September Bushuis/ OIH, VOC room
This symposium aims to explore the possible and actual interactions of philosophy of science with the scientist's endeavour, including, e.g., historical studies, case studies of current collaborations between philosophers and scientists, the role of philosophy in the academic training of future scientists, and many more topics.
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PhD defense: Maaike de Boois
12 September 13:00-14:30 Aula/ Lutherse kerk
Maaike de Boois tells the remarkable story of andragology, a social science that went through a tumultuous development in the period from 1950 to 1983. She hereby tracks androgology’s promising rise, with the milestone of formal recognition as an independent science in 1970, to its eventual elimination just thirteen years later.
Supervisor: Prof W.G.J. Duyvendak, Co-supervisors: Dr B. Karstens and Dr J.C. Keinemans (Univesity of Applied Sciences Utrecht)
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Lecture Herman Paul on History and Philosophy of History
14 September 2018 15:00 Faculty room Philosophy, Oude Turfmarkt 147
The study group philosophy of history has invited Herman Paul to give his lecture 'History and Philosophy of History: A Hermeneutic Space'.
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Technical Art History Colloquium
20 September 2018 15:00-17:00 Artis Library, reading room
This edition of the Technical Art History Colloquium will be organised in Amsterdam by Sven Dupré and focuses on image-making and the history of the book.
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Vossius Seminar
18 September 15:00-18:00, Artis Library
At the next Vossius Seminar Margriet van der Heijden (AUC) and Jos Uffink (University of Minnesota) will present their research. Margriet van der Heijden (AUC): "Tatiana Afanassjewa’s Worldline" and Jos Uffink (University of Minnesota): "Tatjana Ehrenfest-Afanassjewa and the Foundations of Thermodynamics".
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The Making of the Humanities VII
15-17 November Roeterseiland building I (CREA)
‘The Making of the Humanities’ conference returns to Amsterdam! This is the place where the conference series started in 2008, 10 years ago. The University of Amsterdam will host the 7th Making of the Humanities conference at its CREA facilities, from 15 till 17 November 2018.
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