This edited collection by Sven Dupré and Michael Bycroft is an interdisciplinary study of gems in the early modern world. It examines the relations between the art, science, and technology of gems, and it does so against the backdrop of an expanding global trade in gems. The eleven chapters are organised into three parts. The…

Download the full programme here   Date: Thursday 24 January 2019 Time: 16.00 – 17.30 Location: Room B, 1st floor Ateliergebouw, Hobbemastraat 22, Amsterdam Admission free, but in order to make sure that you will be accommodated, please RSVP to j.briggeman@uu.nl by 18 January.  Chair: Abbie Vandivere (University of Amsterdam, Coordinator MA Technical Art History…

The Journal for the History of Knowledge, to be launched in 2020, will include an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores a theme central to its scope (see below). We welcome proposals which problematize and historicize the nature of (different kinds of) knowledge, its boundaries, practices, hierarchies, and/or institutionalization. We are currently…

New Artechne blog online by our PhD candidate Mariana Pinto on techniques in the making of ancient copper objects and how they can be recognized by visual examination of the object: Link  

On 21-22 June 2019 Gewina, the Belgian-Dutch Society for the History of Science and Universities, will hold its 8th biannual meeting in the Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre (Zeist). This two-day conference brings together historians of science, medicine, and technology; historians of scholarship and universities; and all those from other fields with an interest in…