World of Patterns is published Open Access
The book World of Patterns: A Global History of Knowledge (JHU Press, 2022) by Vossius co-director Rens Bod has been published Open Access on Project MUSE.
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Vossius Research Fellow Grigoris Panoutsopoulos
Grigoris Panoutsopoulos joins the Vossius Center for one month in May 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project 'The Dynamics of CERN's Material Culture'.Read more -
NWO Rubicon grant awarded to Anna-Luna Post
Anna-Luna Post has been awarded a NWO Rubicon grant for the project 'In whose interest? The commercial exploitation of knowledge in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic'. She will go to the University of Cambridge ...Read more -
New issue History of Humanities
Issue 7.1 of History of Humanities has been published. It contains a Theme on "HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FICTION ACROSS THREE CULTURES" edited by Daniel Woolf, an article on the rise and fall of the discipline of ...Read more -
Vossius Research Fellow Lotte Schüßler
Lotte Schüßler joins the Vossius Center for three months in January 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project "Theatre Exhibitions: Playgrounds of the Humanities around 1900'.Read more -
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 will ...Read more -
Vossius Research Fellow Kaat Wils
Kaat Wils joins the Vossius Center for three months in March 2022 as a Research Fellow with the project '(Public) histories of therapeutic practices and the biomedical sciences'.Read more -
Vossius Fund for Research Fellows open for applications
The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 15 May 2022 for fellowships between September 2022 and June 2023.Read more
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Vossius seminar
At the next Vossius Seminar Grigoris Panoutsopoulos will present his research. Grigoris will give the talk “Conceptualizing the Large Hadron Collider as a ‘World Project’ in the Post-Cold War Era.”Read more -
The Most Liberal of All Ideas: The Political Thought of the Holy Alliance
Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University) will give the lecture 'The Most Liberal of All Ideas: The Political Thought of the Holy Alliance' in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.Read more
Upcoming events
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Suicide and its prevention: Contemporary and Historical perspectives in Nursing 1880 – 2020
19 - 21 May 2022The conference Suicide and its Prevention: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives in Nursing, 1880–2020 is organised on behalf of the European Association for the History of Nursing (EAHN), an international ... -
Vossius Seminar
30 May 2022At the next Vossius Seminar Grigoris Panoutsopoulos will present his research. Grigoris will give the talk “Conceptualizing the Large Hadron Collider as a ‘World Project’ in the Post-Cold War Era.” -
Public lecture by Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University)
7 Jun 2022Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University) will give a public lecture in the The Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.
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About the Vossius Center
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.Read more -
Research
Vossius aims to investigate the position and development of knowledge-making disciplines, in past and present.Read more