New book series: Studies in the History of Knowledge
Amsterdam University Press is launching a new book series that focuses on the subjects central at the Vossius Center: Studies in the History of Knowledge. Editors: Klaas van Berkel (Groningen), Jeroen van Dongen (Vossius, Amsterdam), Herman Paul (Leiden).
This book series publishes leading volumes that study the history of knowledge in its cultural context. It offers accounts that cut across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, while being sensitive to how institutional circumstances and different scales of time shape the making of knowledge.
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Vossius Research Fellow Kristine Palmieri
Kristine Palmieri joins the Vossius Center for three months in March 2020 as a Research Fellow with the project 'Philology as a Way of Knowing: Philology in the Reformed German Universities, 1750-1830'.
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Vossius Research Fellow Neda Ghatrouei
Neda Ghatrouei joins the Vossius Center for three months in February 2020 as a Research Fellow with the project 'Model Construction and Objectivity in Einstein’s relativistic theory post 1915'.
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Vossius Fund for Research Fellows open for applications
The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 20 April 2020 for fellowships between September 2020 and June 2021. Applicants are invited to submit a proposal for obtaining a subsidy for research fellows, meant for inviting top researchers for 1-3 months to the UvA. There are two kinds of fellowships: junior fellow and senior fellow.
Candidates should have a clear affinity with the history of humanities and/or sciences. Fellows are expected to participate in the activities of the Vossius Center whenever possible.
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CfP Special Issue of History of Humanities
The journal History of Humanities solicits submissions for a special issue on Decentralizing the History of the Humanities. Deadline for submissions is 15 October 2020.
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How Disciplines Interact - programme online
The Vossius Center at the University of Amsterdam will host a two-day workshop on 7-8 May 2020, entitled “How Disciplines Interact”.* The programme is now online.
* The workshop is part of an ongoing NWO-funded research project at the University of Amsterdam called The Flow of Cognitive Goods with Rens Bod, Jeroen van Dongen, Bart Karstens, Sjang ten Hagen and Emma Mojet. The project’s methodological approach has recently been published as a ‘Critiques and Contentions’-piece in Isis (September 2019).
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Beyond digital and algorithmic
10 March 15:00 - 17:30 BG1 Room 0.16, Turfdraagsterspad 9
In this special session of the Colloquium History of Digital Cultures "Beyond digital and algorithmic" Thomas Haigh (UW-Milwaukee & Universität Siegen) and Gerard Alberts (UvA) will present their research. Thomas Haigh: "What Is Digital About the Digital Humanities?" and Gerard Alberts: "What Is Algorithmic About the Algorithmic Knowing?".
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Against Nature. An evening with Lorraine Daston
11 March 20:00 - 21:30 SPUI25
Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? In Against Nature, Lorraine Daston asks why we continually seek moral orders in natural orders, despite so much good counsel to the contrary.
With Sven Dupré, Julia Kursell and Lukas Verburgt. In cooperation with SPUI 25 and Octavo Publications. Registration is free but required at SPUI25.
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Vossius Seminar
16 March 15:00 - 17:15 BG1 Room 0.16, Turfdraagsterspad 9
At the next Vossius Seminar Larissa Schulte Nordholt (University of Leiden) and Giovanni Colavizza (University of Amsterdam) will present their research. Larissa Schulte Nordholt: “Confronting the Hamitic Hypothesis in UNESCO’s General History of Africa” and Giovanni Colavizza: “Understanding the History of the Humanities from a Bibliometric Perspective”.
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'Doubts about man': Apes and global markets in Enlightenment debates
31 March 16:00 - 17:30 University Library, Potgieter room
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Parijs) will give the lecture "'Doubts about man’: Apes and global markets in Enlightenment " in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.
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