Vossius Research Fellow Arnab Dutta
Arnab Dutta joined the Vossius Center for three months in September 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project 'Towards the Invention of a Common Language of Science: The League of Nations’ Committee for Intellectual Cooperation and the Colonial Question'.
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Vossius Research Fellow Sarah Maria Schober
Sarah Maria Schober joins the Vossius Center for two months in October 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project 'The Civet Cat. Producing Exotica in Early Modern Europe'.
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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 has spent part of his Fellowship with us last March and now returns to the Vossius Center in November.
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Colloquium Musicology: Sonic Returns
1 November 16:00 - 18:00 University Theatre, Nieuwe Doelenstraat 16
LaVerne David C. de la Peña (University of the Philippines) will give the keynote talk 'Gather, Keep, and Return: the Transformation of the University of the Philippines Center for Ethnomuisocology' in the programme Sonic Returns – Repatriating Sounds on Exile.
The talk will be followed by a panel discussion with Sonic Entanglements and Decolonizing Southeast Asian Sound Archives (DeCoSEAS) partners on decolonization, repatriation, and sound archives in Southeast Asia. The discussion will take as its starting points the theoretical engagement and the archival intervention of the Sonic Entanglements project.
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Call for Participation: The Making of the Humanities X
3-5 November online
The full program with the book of abstracts of The Making of the Humanities X conference is available online and downloadable. Please note: the conference will be held online from November 3-5, during the afternoons in Europe and during the mornings in the US. Participation to the conference is free. We look forward to seeing you at The Making of the Humanities X!
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Vossius Seminar
14 November 15:30 - 17:30 BG1 Turfdraagsterpad 9, room 0.16
At the next Vossius Seminar Arnab Dutta and Hampus Östh Gustafsson will present their research. Arnab Dutta (University of Groningen) will give the talk “The League of Nations’ Committee for Intellectual Cooperation: Universalism, Civilisational Boundaries, and the Colonial Question” and Hampus Östh Gustafsson (Uppsala University) will present "‘But that is a historical problem’: R. S. Crane and American histories of the humanities in the mid-20th century".
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Seminar Global Intellectual History
24 November 16:00 - 17:30 University of Groningen, Poststraat 6, and online
Isa Blumi (Stockholm University) will give the public lecture ‘Cultivating Fraud: How Imperial Agents Harvested Anti-Ottoman Knowledge and its Consequences on the Islamic World’ in the The Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.
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Call for Abstracts: 9th PhD Conference in History of Science and Humanities
The conference aims to bring together PhD candidates in Belgium and the Netherlands who work in the field of the history of science in the broadest sense: including histories of knowledge, technology, medicine, the natural sciences, the humanities, and the social sciences, spanning any time period. The idea is to discuss our work (and work-in progress) in an informal and congenial setting. The conference will take place on 20 and 21 April, 2023 at at Soeterbeeck Abbey.
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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:
- 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
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