Vossius Center for the History of Humanities and Sciences

Bringing together researchers from all faculties of the University of Amsterdam who share an interest in the history of humanities and science, as well as in university history

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Issue 6.1 of 'History of Humanities' (Spring 2021) has been published. It contains a Theme section on “Sounds of Language—Languages of Sound”, a Forum section on “The Rise and Decline of ‘Colonial Humanities'”, two ...

Rens Bod, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, recently received two academic awards: the Francqui Medal and a medal from Ghent University. He is awarded the honours as holder of the ...

Update: the 9th Making of the Humanities conference in Barcelona, 20-22 Sept 2021, will be digital or hybrid. The submission deadline is 15 May. The conference will take place between 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. each day (CET)

Vossius Seminar (online)

At the next Vossius Seminar Matthijs Lok and Annelien de Dijn will present their research. Matthijs Lok will give the talk “Counter-Revolution, Enlightenment and the Making of the European Past” and Annelien de Dijn "A reappraisal of more than two thousand years of thinking about freedom".

Seminar Global Intellectual History

Or Rosenboim (City, University of London) will give the lecture “Tripolitania and Cyrenaica, 1911-1913” in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.

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20 - 22 Sep 2021

The Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF) together with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) will host the 9th Making of the Humanities conference, from 20 till 22 September 2021. This year the conference will be ...

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