Knowledgeable Youngsters: Youth, Media and Early Modern Knowledge Societies (follow-up 2016) The international conference Knowledgeable Youngsters seeks to fill an important gap in our understanding of the early modern knowledge culture: the significance of youth literacies. How were the young (loosely defined here as ‘unmarried people’) taught to interpret and use textual and visual media…

Keynote Lecturers Tara Nummedal (Brown University): Early-Modern Alchemy as the Art of Colour Ernst Homburg (Maastricht University): From Phosphorus to Magenta: Colour in Chemical Science and Industry Hosted by the ARTECHNE research group, the annual postgraduate workshop of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry (SHAC) will take place at Utrecht University in…

The newly initiated Technical Art History Colloquium is organised by prof. dr. Sven Dupré (Utrecht University and University of Amsterdam, PI ERC ARTECHNE) and dr. Arjan de Koomen (University of Amsterdam, Department of Art History, Coordinator MA Technical Art History). Monthly meetings take place on Thursdays, usually in Utrecht and Amsterdam. The fourth edition of the…

TransPositions is an international network formed by three partner institutions in the field of graduate education with the Graduate School of the Humanities at the University of Bern as lead institution and with the Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Lucerne and the Department of History and Art History at…

De stad is de bakermat van kennis en creativiteit. Dat uit zich vandaag in het concept van de ‘creatieve stad’, dat vandaag de dag overal ter wereld wordt gepromoot. Maar dat de stad de motor is van kunst en wetenschap was ook al een gangbaar idee aan de vooravond van de Gouden Eeuw. Op deze avond…