Marieke Hendriksen will organize “Modelling Life”, a wax modelling workshop, together with Marjolijn Bol and Leonie Hannan at the Uncovering Material Knowledge Conference, Queen’s University Belfast, 30-31 August 2019. More information about this workshop will follow soon. The ‘Uncovering Material Knowledge’ Conference has invited scholars from the arts, humanities and social sciences to participate in a discussion about…

Organisation: Sven Dupré, Jenny Boulboullé, Jill Briggeman, Esther van Duijn and Mariana Pinto Institutions: Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam, NICAS and Rijksmuseum Registration is now open! Please register through an email to j.briggeman@uu.nl, stating your name, affiliation, and which day(s) you want to attend the conference (-and, if applicable, your preferred choice of thematic session…

With Anita Guerrini (Oregon State University), a historian of the life sciences and medicine with research interests in environmental history and the history of animals. More information about her presentation will follow soon. The History of Science Colloquium is organized by the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. The Descartes Centre is…

The Stevin Centre and Research Institute CLUE+ present: Stevin Conference “Teaching the history of knowledge: purposes, problems, practices” This one-day conference, organized by the VU Stevin Centre in celebration of its fifth anniversary, focuses on the rationales of teaching the history of knowledge and on finding appealing ways of doing so. How do we convey…

Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and the Lorentz Center together organize the public lecture ‘Giants, Fossils, and the Origins of Nationalism’ by Anita Guerrini on Thursday 28 March 2019. The lecture starts at 16.00 at Rijksmuseum Boerhaave. Imagine you are the first person who digs up a fossil of a dinosaur. You probably think what in heavens name…