Chaokang Tai will defend the dissertation "Anton Pannekoek, Marxist Astronomer: Photography, Epistemic Virtues, and Political Philosophy in Early Twentieth-Century Astronomy" supervised by Prof. Jeroen van Dongen and ...

The topic of the next Vossius Seminar is 'Culture and descent: The ambivalence of ethnicity across the gap between the natural and the cultural sciences in the nineteenth century'.

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.

One-day conference with a keynote lecture by Maurizio Isabella (Queen Mary, University of London).

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".

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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, ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...