Past events

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

16:00 - 17:30 | Symposium

Emma Stone Mackinnon (Cambridge) will give the lecture "Malcolm X and the concept of human rights" in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.

15:00 - 17:00 | Symposium

At the next Vossius Seminar Sylvia Pauw (UvA) and Sebastiaan Broere (UvA) will present their research. Sylvia Pauw: "J.H. Lambert on the nature of scientific concepts" and Sebastiaan Broere: "Raising the Standard? ...

17:00 - 19:00 | Symposium

Hussein Omar (Dublin) will give the lecture "How Egypt forgot its sectarian past in 1919" in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.

15:30 | Lecture

Prof. Jürgen Renn (Director Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) will give the Zeeman lecture "The Anthropocene and the History of Science".

16:00 - 17:30 | Lecture

Prof. Karine Chemla (SPHERE, CNRS & Université de Paris) will give the Zeeman lecture 'The Shaping of Scientific Classics for Modern Uses: An Invitation to a Critical Approach'.

16:30 - 19:00 | Event

Het Prins Bernard Cultuurfonds, Uitgeverij Balans en auteur Anne Kox nodigen u van harte uit voor de presentatie van Een levend kunstwerk – Hendrik Antoon Lorentz 1853-1928, natuurkundige.

16:30 - 19:00 | Event

On 16 October, the new biography 'Een levend kunstwerk' about Hendrik Antoon Lorentz, written by UvA emeritus professor Anne Kox, will be presented at the Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds in Amsterdam.

13:45 - 17:00 | Workshop

Tijdens de workshop worden verschillende governancemodellen in het hoger onderwijs, waaronder benaderingen geïnspireerd door New Public Management, geduid en bediscussieerd.

14:45 - 17:00 | Event

This edition of the Technical Art History Colloquium is organised in collaboration with Rijksmuseum Boerhaave: two lectures will focus on the production, use and conservation of écorché models, images of flayed human ...

Lecture

Keynote lectures by Prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Georg-August University Göttingen) and Prof. dr. Andrew Fitzmaurice (University of Sydney). The lectures are part of the Summer School organised with by Huizinga ...

15:00 - 17:15 | Symposium

At the next Vossius Seminar Tobias Winnerling (Huygens ING) and Josephine Musil-Gutsch (LMU München & Vossius Fellow) will present their research. Tobias Winnerling: "Forgetting 18th century scholars in the ...

16:00 - 17:30 | Symposium

Richard Whatmore (Saint-Andrews) will give the lecture "The future of intellectual history" in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.

15:00 - 17:00 | Symposium

Hein van den Berg (UvA) and Lukas Verburgt (UU) will present their ongoing research at the first seminar of The Philosophical Tradition in Context Seminar series of the Department of Philosophy at the University of ...

15:00 - 17:30 | Symposium

At the next Vossius Seminar Mathijs Boom (UvA) and Georgiana Hedesan (U. Oxford, Vossius fellow UvA) will present their research. Mathijs Boom: "Unearthing the deep past in the 18th-century Low Countries" and ...

13:00 - 15:00 | Workshop

Fabian Krämer, Associate fellow at the Vossius Center and current EURIAS fellow at NIAS, convenes a workshop on "The Architecture of Science and the Humanities". This workshop is organized in cooperation with the NIAS.

17:00 - 18:00 | Event

This edition of the Technical Art History Colloquium will be organised in Utrecht and focuses on the Politics and Materiality of Expertise with a lecture by Noémie Étienne (University of Bern).