After the successful results of the pilot one-day workshop “The Art of Dyeing Silk” in November (check here for a review of this workshop), the Cultural Heritage Agency of the Netherlands (Rijksdienst voor het Culturele Erfgoed, RCE) will be organizing a new edition, this time in the format of a two-day workshop, on 5 and 6 of April 2018 at…

Achtergrond De dialoog tussen de geneeskunde, de kunsten en de geesteswetenschappen is al eeuwenoud, en strekt zich uit van Aristoteles’ filosofische overtuiging dat de tragedie als kunstvorm de ziel zou zuiveren, tot aan relatief recente ontwikkelingen als “medical humanities”. Aan de Universiteit Utrecht kreeg deze uitwisseling van 1945-1960 vorm binnen ‘De Utrechtse School’ – een…

The workshop aims to explore the intersections and tensions between art and technology in the early modern era. It aims to bring together papers that nuance the standard narrative about material culture and adaptive technology to reassess connectedness. The workshop seeks to advance and develop the interdisciplinary scholarship that breaks down the boundaries that separate…

Marieke Hendriksen has been awarded a departmental Aspasia talent development grant for a visiting fellowship to the Center for Science and Society at Columbia University in New York city in May/June 2018. She will use her stay to do archival research at the New York Academy of Medicine for her new book.    

Marieke Hendriksen has been awarded a Digital Humanities Summer Institute Fellowship by the Renaissance Society of America. She will use her fellowship to attend a one-week course on Linked Open Data and the Semantic Web at the DHSI at the University of Victoria (BC, Canada) in June 2018.