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Glenda Sluga (The University of Sydney/European University Institute) will give the lecture “Women and the History of International Thinking” in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.
Revolutionary Cosmopolitanism: Transnational migration and political activism, 1815-1848
22 Jan 2021
00:00 Conference
One-day conference with a keynote lecture by Maurizio Isabella (Queen Mary, University of London).
Digital Vossius Seminar
20 Jan 2021
17:00 - 18:00
Symposium
At the next Vossius Seminar, our Vossius fellow Ana María Gómez López will give a lecture entitled "Death at the water’s edge: Multi-species histories, aqueous environments, and the early development of taphonomy".
PhD defense: Sjang ten Hagen
13 Jan 2021
14:00 Event
Sjang ten Hagen, Vossius Center, will defend the dissertation entitled 'History and Physics Entangled: Disciplinary Intersections in the Long Nineteenth Century' supervised by Prof. Jeroen van Dongen and Prof. Rens ...
KNAW-webinar: Wat hebben de universiteiten nodig?
1 Dec 2020
20:00 - 21:30
Event
Het is al jaren onrustig aan de Nederlandse universiteiten. Daarom hebben drie hoogleraren onlangs een pamflet '40 stellingen over de wetenschap' gepubliceerd, waarin ze inhoudelijke stelling nemen over wat een ...
'Doubts about man': Apes and global markets in Enlightenment debates
24 Nov 2020
16:00 - 17:30
Symposium
Silvia Sebastiani (EHESS, Parijs) will give the lecture "'Doubts about man’: Apes and global markets in Enlightenment " in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.
Digital Vossius Seminar
24 Nov 2020
14:00 - 16:00
Symposium
At our forthcoming Seminar on 24 November, our new Vossius fellows Lyke de Vries and Grigoris Panoutsopoulos will talk about their research. The talks will be digital and start at 14:00.
‘Classical’ Music – ‘German’ Music – ‘World’ Music? On the Multiple Meanings of Global Musical Mobility in the 20th Century
22 Oct 2020
00:00 Symposium
Friedemann Pestel (Freiburg) will give the lecture "‘Classical’ Music – ‘German’ Music – ‘World’ Music? On the Multiple Meanings of Global Musical Mobility in the 20th Century" in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global ...
Digital Vossius Seminar
5 Oct 2020
16:00 - 18:00
Symposium
The next Vossius seminar will take place online via zoom, on Monday 5 October. Two recently appointed Vossius Fellows, Anna-Luna Post and Niels Martens, will talk about their research at the Vossius Center.
History of Knowledge Seminar
24 Sep 2020
15:30 - 17:00
Lecture
On behalf of the Descartes Center you are invited to the online lecture by prof. Peter Burke (Cambridge) in the History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University.
„Orpheus, or philosophy“: early opera and early modern science
8 Jun 2020
16:00 - 17:00
Symposium
Music Studies organises a colloquium with Nicholas Till in collaboration with the Vossius Center. '„Orpheus, or philosophy“: early opera and early modern science' will be held as an online video colloquium.
De alfakant van bètacollecties
29 May 2020
09:45 Event
Welke cultuurhistorische waarde heeft natuurhistorisch erfgoed? En op welke manier kunnen deze verhalen de publieke rol van het
natuurhistorische museum in de 21ste eeuw versterken? Op zoek naar antwoorden, ...
Digital Vossius Seminar
25 May 2020
16:00 - 17:00
Symposium
The next Vossius seminar will take place online via zoom, on Monday 25 May, 16.00h-17.00h. Vossius fellow Richard Calis from Princeton University will talk about his research.
‘Classical’ Music – ‘German’ Music – ‘World’ Music? On the Multiple Meanings of Global Musical Mobility in the 20th Century
14 May 2020
16:00 - 17:30
Symposium
Friedemann Pestel (Freiburg) will give the lecture “‘Classical’ Music – ‘German’ Music – ‘World’ Music? On the Multiple Meanings of Global Musical Mobility in the 20th Century” in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global ...
POSTPONED How Disciplines Interact
7 May 2020 - 8 May 2020
09:00 - 17:30
Workshop
The Vossius Center at the University of Amsterdam will host a two-day workshop, entitled “How Disciplines Interact”.* The workshop is postponed due to COVID-19 and will probably take place 6 and 7 May 2021.
Digital Vossius Seminar
20 Apr 2020
16:00 - 17:00
Symposium
The next Vossius seminar will take place online via zoom, on Monday 20 April, 16.00-17.00. Our Vossius fellow Kristine Palmieri from the University of Chicago will give a talk entitled “Philology and the Rise of ...
Against Nature. An evening with Lorraine Daston
11 Mar 2020
20:00 - 21:30
Event
Why have human beings, in many different cultures and epochs, looked to nature as a source of norms for human behavior? In Against Nature, Lorraine Daston asks why we continually seek moral orders in natural orders, ...
Technical Art History: new perspectives & more dimensions
12 Feb 2020
10:00 - 18:00
Event
This edition of the Technical Art History Colloquia is organised in collaboration with the Netherlands Institute for Conservation, Art and Science (NICAS). During this full-day programme, researchers with various ...
Vossius Seminar
4 Feb 2020
15:00 - 17:15
Symposium
At the next Vossius Seminar Juan Bubello (University of Buenos Aires) and Stephen Clucas (Birbeck, University of London) will present their research. Juan Bubello: “Alchemy, politics and power in the Spain of Felipe ...
Technical Art History Colloquium
19 Dec 2019
17:00 - 19:00
Event
The Scriptorium Collective is an independent consortium of researchers, craftsmen and curators of university libraries concerned with the production, usage and research of religious books in the wider context of book ...
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