Sven Dupré will organize an Expertise in Art and Science panel session during the History of Science Society meeting, which will be held in Seattle from 1-4 November 2018. The session focuses on the development of a science-based conservation practice and the emergence of art history as a ‘science of art’ (or Kunstwissenschaft) in the…

Call for Applications extended There are a few participant spots still available in the workshop ‘Alterity Revisited – A Closer Look at Transpositions of a Traveling Concept in the Humanities’ which will be held at the University of Lucerne on December 7th/8th. Thomas Claviez (University of Bern) and Christine Abbt (University of Lucerne) will give keynote…

In July, Sven Dupré has been elected as council member for the History of Science Society (HSS). His term will start in January 2019 and end 1n December 2021. Other elected council members are Stephanie Dick (University of Pennsylvania), Julia Kursell (University of Amsterdam), Ahmed Ragab (Harvard University), and Neil Safier (The John Carter Brown…

Alice Zamboni will join the ARTECHNE project in January 2019 for five months as a guest researcher. Currently, she works as a PhD candidate at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London. Zamboni is writing her thesis on the visualisation and cognition of the human body among artists and physicians in the seventeenth-century Dutch Republic. More information here.

This workshop takes place in the framework of the consortium TransPositions. Alterity is a concept discussed in all disciplines within the Humanities and often functions as a unifying concept in interdisciplinary research. As with so many concepts “transposed” from one context to another, it has widely differing denotations, connotations, and applications. In addition to discourses…