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Webinar: Art History and Visual Material Culture @ Research Center Arts in Society, Groningen University
Groningen University is happy to invite you to the first event of the series of research webinars on art history & visual material culture. The inaugural session takes place on Wednesday, 28 October, 17.15-18.00h. The lecture will focus on Hugo Grotius and will be given by Dr. Elsje van Kessel. This talk focuses on the…
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Call for proposals: The Renaissance Society of America’s Graduate Student Advisory Committee
The Renaissance Society of America’s Graduate Student Advisory Committee is pleased to launch the Online Graduate Student Lightning Talk Series with its inaugural session on Expanding the Renaissance, taking place on 3 December 2020. As scholars and students of Renaissance Studies, as the RSA Statement in Support of Social Justice states, we “have structured a…
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Studiebeurzen voor studenten @ KNIR
Het KNIR verstrekt onder bepaalde voorwaarden beurzen en stipendia aan jonge wetenschappers die voor hun onderzoek in Rome dienen te verblijven. De beurzen zijn bestemd voor (R)MA-studenten, promovendi en postdocs van een van de zes universiteiten die bijdragen aan de financiering van het KNIR. Beurzen worden uitgekeerd voor een periode van max. 7 tot 10 weken. Daarnaast is een…
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Call for Papers: “Weight and Weighing Practices in the Early Modern Period: a Multidisciplinary Perspective.”
This workshop wants to bring together historians from different backgrounds to study the spectrum of connotations –both epistemic and cultural– that weight and weighing practices assumed in the early modern period. What were the roles, functions, and features of weighing in different fields? How did notions of weight and weighing change, overlap, or transfer across…
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Vacancy: scientific coordinator Lorentz Center
Lorentz Center has an opening for a scientific coordinator, in particular recent Ph.D. graduates are welcome to send an application. The scientific coordinator is part of Henriette Jensenius’ team that advises the applicants of workshops, within the full spectrum of academic fields, helps workshop organisers develop the format of their workshop, and supports all our scientific advisory…
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