Vossius Research Fellow Riccardo Martinelli
Riccardo Martinelli joins the Vossius Center for one months in December 2018 as a Research Fellow with the project Savage sounds, civilized thoughts. Philosophy, music and modern anthropology.
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Vossius Research Fellow Kim Simonsen
Kim Simonsen joins the Vossius Center for three months as a Research Fellow with the project Fields of Knowledge - Between the Humanities and Natural History. Visual and Material Aspects of Travel Writing, seen through Northbound Travelling European Men of Science and Men of Letters 1772 -1840.
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Short Conference Report MOH7
The 7th The Making of the Humanities conference returned to Amsterdam from 15-17 November 2018. Since the conference has turned into an annual event in 2016 it has continued to grow. This year a record number of 144 presentations was accepted for presentation. A well-balanced programme and the high quality of contributions made for a very stimulating conference. We thank all participants for their contributions!
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CfP Towards a History of Knowledge
On 21-22 June 2019 Gewina, the Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities, will hold its 8th biannual meeting in the Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre (Zeist). This two-day conference brings together historians of science, medicine, and technology; historians of scholarship and universities; and all those from other fields with an interest in the history of knowledge. The theme of this year’s conference is Towards a History of Knowledge. The deadline for the Call for Papers is 15 January 2019
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Vossius Seminar
11 December 16:00 OMHP, room C2.05, N.B. not the Artis Library
At the next Vossius Seminar Riccardo Martinelli (University of Trieste) will present his research William James and Carl Stumpf. The Correspondence.
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PhD defense Wouter Klein
12 December 12:45 Academiegebouw UU Domplein 29, Utrecht
Wouter Klein, University of Utrecht, will defend the PhD thesis entitled New Drugs for the Dutch Republic: The Commodification of Fever Remedies in the Netherlands (c. 1650-1800).
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Technical Art History Colloquium
12 December 15:00-17:00 Teylers Museum, Gehoorzaal
From 5 October 2018 to 6 January 2019, the Teylers Museum in Haarlem will hold a once-in-a-lifetime exhibition featuring 33 original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). The Technical Art History Colloquium on Wednesday 12 December will take place at the Teylers Museum and focus on Leonardo’s drawings. Our speaker, prof. dr. Michael Kwakkelstein, is guest-curator of the exhibition.
N.B. Please note that admission to the Technical Art History Colloquium as well as the Leonardo exhibition is only possible with a valid museum entrance ticket. Visitors to this special edition of the Technical Art History Colloquium are responsible for purchasing their own entrance ticket to the Teylers Museum. Due to the great interest in the Leonardo da Vinci exhibition, please make sure to book your tickets well in advance!
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Launch CEMROL
14 December 12:30-17:00, Universiteitsmuseum Utrecht, Lange Nieuwstraat 106
CEMROL (Collecting Epistolary Metadata of the Republic of Letters) is a crowdsourcing project in which anyone interested in history or letters can participate. The project focuses on letters from the 15th up to the 18th century with a learned character.
The ERC Consolidator project Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks – The Republic of Letters as a Pan-European Knowledge Society (SKILLNET), under the direction of Dr Dirk van Miert, conducts research into the ideal of sharing knowledge within early modern scholarly networks in Europe by applying social network analysis and text mining techniques to the metadata and full-text data of large quantities of manuscript and printed letters from the period 1500-1800.
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The Extremist and the Moderate: A History of the War on Terror, 1543-1918
18 December 17:00-19:00, Bushuis, room F0.21
Lecture by James Renton (Professor of History, Edge Hill University).
The ideas of the extremist and the moderate are at the heart of the War on Terror. That global project is, however, a culmination of the long history of these notions, rather than their cause. In this lecture, James Renton will argue that the War on Terror is rooted in the Christian political thought of Europe’s bloody wars of religion, and its evolution in the centuries that followed, traversing the Enlightenment, European revolution, and empire.
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Call for Research Fellows
The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows, meant for inviting top researchers for 1-3 months to the UvA. There are two kinds of fellowships:
- A Junior Fellow carries out research in the field of history of humanities and/or sciences, and presents her/his work at a colloquium at the Vossius Center, public lectures or/and research seminars. We encourage that the junior fellow’s work lead to a funding application.
- A Senior Fellow, in addition, establishes or consolidates a concrete collaboration with one or more members of the Vossius Center preferably leading to a joint project proposal.
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. Deadline is 1 February 2109.
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Call for Colloquiums/Master classes
The Vossius Center offers funding for Colloquiums/Master classes, meant for international guest researchers in the field of HHS who want to visit the UvA for a few days to maximally a week. The guest researcher will give a lecture or/and a master class and intends to brainstorm on a project proposal. Deadline is 1 February 2019.
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Call for submissions Gewina Thesis Award
Gewina-Descartes-Huygens Thesis Award for the History of Science/Humanities and Universities 2019
For theses within the fields of the history of science/humanities and the history of universities in the broadest sense. The award consists of €750. In addition, the laureate will be offered assistance to rework the thesis into an article, should the winner like to publish it in an academic journal.
The theses must have been produced by students between August 31, 2015 and August 31, 2018 in completion of a Master's degree at a Dutch or Belgian university. A thesis may be submitted in Dutch, French or English. Deadline is 31 December 2018.
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