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September/ October 2022

Friedrich Steinle welcomed as Zeeman Fellow at the Vossius Center


The Vossius Center is proud to announce that professor Friedrich Steinle is welcomed as Zeeman Fellow for this academic year. The Zeeman Fellows are hosted by the Vossius Center and endowed by the Pieter Zeemanfonds.
 

Zeeman lecture

Friedrich Steinle will give the Zeeman lecture 'Knowledge in science and beyond: historiographical challenges and the case of colour history' on 30 September 16:00 - 17:30 in the Artis Library.
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Vossius Seminar


10 October 15:30 - 17:30 BG1 Turfdraagsterpad 9, room 0.16
At the next Vossius Seminar Paul Michael Kurtz and Michele Calella will present their research. Paul Michael Kurtz (Ghent University) will give the talk “Putting the science back in human sciences: towards a holistic account of philology in the 19th century” and Michele Calella (University of Vienna) will present "Affects and figures: searching for symbolic patterns in early musicology".
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Vossius Fund for Research Fellows open for applications


The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 30 November 2022 for fellowships between May 2023 and December 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:

  • 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.
  • 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

Seminar Global Intellectual History


4 October 16:00 - 17:30 Bushuis/ OIH E1.02 and online
Jessica Patterson (Cambridge) will give the public lecture ‘Religion, Enlightenment and Empire: British Interpretations of Hinduism in the Eighteenth Century’ in the The Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.
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Conference program of The Making of the Humanities X is now available


The program of The Making of the Humanities X conference is available and can be downloaded now. The conference will be held online from November 3-5, 2022 (hosted by UPitt and CMU).
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Francesca Zantedeschi awarded Marie Curie-Fellowship


Vossius member Francesca Zantedeschi has been awarded Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship from the European Commission to conduct research at the UvA. Francesca's project is 'Europe’s Ethnoschism. Nordic Manliness vs Latin Glamour, 1914-1929' under supervision of Joep Leerssen at the Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies (ARTES).
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Podcast 'De kosmos van Pannekoek' gelanceerd


De podcast ‘De kosmos van Pannekoek’ is gelanceerd rond het 100-jarig bestaan van het Anton Pannekoek Instituut voor Sterrenkunde (API). In de vijfdelige podcast-serie gaan journalist Edda Heinsman en Pannekoek-kenner Chaokang Tai op zoek naar de kosmos door de ogen van Pannekoek.
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