At the next Vossius Seminar Angus Nicholls and Daan Wegener will present their research. Angus Nicholls will give the talk “Aesthetics and Anthropology in the Early Years of Comparative Literature: The Acta Comparationis Litterarum Universarum” and Daan Wegener "Ernst Mach on Energy Conservation".

Georgios Varouxakis (Queen Mary, University of London) will give the lecture '“Western Civilization” in the Thought of Afro-American and Francophone Black Intellectuals – from the Great War to the Early Cold War' 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.