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March 2022

Vossius Research Fellow Lotte Schüßler


Lotte Schüßler has joined the Vossius Center for three months in January 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project "Theatre Exhibitions: Playgrounds of the Humanities around 1900'.
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Vossius Research Fellow Kaat Wils


Kaat Wils joins the Vossius Center for three months in March 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project '(Public) histories of therapeutic practices and the biomedical sciences'.
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Vossius Research Fellow Hampus Östh Gustafsson


Hampus Östh Gustafsson joins the Vossius Center for one month in 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project 'Historiographical Legitimization: Mobilizing the History of the Human Sciences, c. 1930–1970'. Hampus will first stay with the center for two weeks in the second half of March and shall return to the Vossius Center in September.
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Vossius Seminar


21 March 16:00 - 18:00 Artis Library
At the next Vossius Seminar Lotte Schüßler and Jip van Besouw will present their research. Lotte Schüßler will give the talk “Theatre Exhibitions: Playgrounds of the Humanities around 1900 ” and Jip van Besouw "Cooperating across the scholar-craftsman divide: ’s Gravesande and Cruquius on rivers". The seminar will be on site in the beautiful Artis library which has recently been reopened.
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Seminar Global Intellectual History


10 March 16:00 - 17:30 Utrecht, Kromme Nieuwegracht 80, 1.06 (Ravensteynzaal) and online
Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London) will give the lecture '“Western Civilization” in the Thought of Afro-American and Francophone Black Intellectuals – from the Great War to the Early Cold War' in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.
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De wiskundige L.E.J. Brouwer, een veelzijdig genie


17 March 16:30 - 20:00 Noord-Hollands Archief, Jansstraat 40 Haarlem
In 2015 is het persoonlijk archief van L. E. J. Brouwer (1881-1966) overgedragen aan het Noord-Hollands Archief in Haarlem. Onlangs zijn de circa acht strekkende meter manuscripten, correspondentie en andere documenten geschoond en geïnventariseerd. Daarmee is het archief van een van Nederlands grootste wiskundigen toegankelijk geworden voor geïnteresseerden. Dit wordt gevierd met een minisymposium in Haarlem.
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Call for Proposals Journal for the History of Knowledge - Special Issue 2024


The Journal for the History of Knowledge features an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores a theme central to the journal’s scope. The special issues of previous years have been Histories of Bureaucratic Knowledge (2020) and Histories of Ignorance (2021).

We are currently accepting proposals for the 2024 Special Issue. Proposals should contain the following:
  • A description of the proposed theme (1500-2000 words) highlighting its significance for the history of knowledge
  • A table of contents (typically 8-12 articles of 8000 words)
  • Abstracts of the articles
  • Two-page CVs of the editors; short biographies of the contributors
  • An outline of the production process up to manuscript submission. All manuscripts must be submitted to the journal by May 2023.
Please send your proposal to: jhokjournal@gmail.com
Proposal deadline: 1 May 2022
Notification of acceptance: by 30 July 2022

After submission, all manuscripts will go through a process of peer-review, author’s revisions, and copy-editing. JHoK is a diamond Open Access journal, at no charge to the authors. Details of the journal’s scope and a full list of the editorial team and advisory editorial board is available on the journal's website.

Vossius Fund for Research Fellows open for applications


The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 15 May 2022 for fellowships between September 2022 and June 2023. Applicants are invited to submit a proposal for obtaining a subsidy for research fellows. Please read more on our Funding page.
 

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. Read more

Call for Papers and Panels ‘The Making of the Humanities X’, Pittsburgh


Save the Date: the 10th Making of the Humanities conference on the history of the humanities will take place in Pittsburgh, USA, from November 3-5, 2022. The conference will be jointly organized by Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. The deadline for abstracts and panel proposals is 15 May 2022.
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