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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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)

Francesca Zantedeschi joins the Vossius Center for three months in March 2021 as a Research Fellow with the project 'The race(s) of the nation: Culturalist notions of race and ethnicity and Romance Philology'.

Stefan Poland joins the Vossius Center for three months in February 2021 as a Research Fellow with the project 'The ambiguity of race: The making of racial knowledge between cultural scholarship and natural science, ...

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

Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University) will give the lecture “Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union” in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.

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17 May 2021