In the academic year 2021-2022, the Vossius Center will launch a close reading group with a focus on epistemology. We will read and discuss texts that the members of the group find relevant and interesting. Meetings will, ideally, take place on location, and there will be no presentations, just questions and discussion.

Arnab Dutta (Groningen and Freie Universität Berlin) will give the lecture “German Genius in the Bengali Imagination, 1920 – 1940: An Intellectual History” in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.

Vossius brings 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.

Vossius aims to investigate the position and development of knowledge-making disciplines, in past and present.