Vossius Newsletter January 2020

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January 2020

Vossius Seminar

4 February 15:00-17:15 BG 1, room 0.16

At the next Vossius Seminar Juan Bubello (University of Buenos Aires) and Stephen Clucas (Birbeck, University of London) will present their research. Juan Bubello: “Alchemy, politics and power in the Spain of Felipe II. Persecutions and resistances” and Stephen Clucas: “Whose disciplines are we between? The case of John Dee’s Mathematicall Praeface (1570)”.
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Vossius Research Fellow Stephen Clucas

Stephen Clucas joins the Vossius Center for three months in January 2020 as a Research Fellow with the project "John Dee (1527-1609): between 'magic' and 'science'.
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Vossius Research Fellow Niels Martens

Niels Martens joins the Vossius Center for one month in February 2020 and again for two months in August 2020 as a Research Fellow with the project "History and philosophy of the distinction between (dark) matter & (modified) spacetime".
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“The Centre Must Fall”: Reflections on Global Humanities

In this blog post, Hampus Östh Gustafsson describes the discussions on global opportunities and challenges held at the recent Making of the Humanities VIII conference in Cape Town. The troubled past of South Africa provided a special framework, and soon it became apparent that the notion of a crisis in the humanities is prevalent there as well. The polycentric focus of the conference, however, opened up new ways of addressing the history and current state of the humanities.
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Call for Papers "How Disciplines Interact"

The Vossius Center at the University of Amsterdam will host a two-day workshop on 7-8 May 2020, entitled “How Disciplines Interact”. If you would like to participate in the workshop, then please submit an abstract of maximally 250 words and a short CV to howdisciplinesinteract@gmail.com. Deadline is 15 January 2020.
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Call for Papers and Panels ‘The Making of the Humanities IX’

‘The Making of the Humanities’ conference goes to Barcelona! The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) will host the 9th Making of the Humanities conference, from 21 till 23 September 2020, at the facilities of the UPF Faculty of Humanities, Ciutadella Campus, Jaume I building. Deadline is 7 May 2020.
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