Almost 5 years of Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions Bibliotheca Hertziana means a big event! 22-24 May, a conference with almost everyone who is or was a fellow, 8 fantastic respondents and as many amazing chairs. In person and online. Program 👇 biblhertz.it/3507351/visual…

And in personal news: much looking forward to take up this new role!
Sven Dupré new Vice-Dean at Faculty of Humanities
uu.nl/en/news/sven-d…

Hoe kunnen we met kunst en verbeelding de biodiversiteitscrisis aanpakken? Kom op 21 april naar een panelgesprek met kunstenaars en ecologen! als onderdeel van het Pollinations programma bij de Bee Embassy nabij Castellum Hoge Woerd in Utrecht utrechtnatuurlijk.nl/pollinations/

🚨Job opportunity🚨
Utrecht University's History and Art History Department is hiring! We are looking for a PhD researcher in a project exploring environmental dimensions to the 'Culture System' in the 19th cent. 'Dutch East Indies' (colonized Indonesia).

uu.nl/en/organisatio…

Trying to isolate the Paracelsian principles... It was a lot of fun, especially the fumes we generated (my clothes still smell of the 'sulphur' principle 😀)

Ready for the Descartes colloquium in Utrecht's ArtLab. This is the theoretical part. Then we're going to burn things 😆. Only green wood twigs, in search for the Paracelsian three principles (tria prima). With Thijs Hagendijk and Stefano Mulas.

We are looking for a (Dutch-speaking) PhD candidate on the history & heritage of queer bars in Belgium & the Netherlands! Spread the word and/or apply! uu.nl/organisatie/we…

It is such a humbling experience to see this article turned into a forum piece with responses by amazing Sven Dupre Lydia Gibson Yannis Hamilakis Timothy LeCain Lucio Menezes Ferreira & Ellen Pearlstein!

Such a privilege to see my NEW ARTICLE on Amazonian biocreativity & 17th-c featherworking in colonial Dutch Brazil published ahead of print in CURRENT ANTHROPOLOGY:

👉🏾journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/72…

Wenner-Gren Foundation SAPIENS

PhD alert! Come and study multilingual books with us!
Arnoud Visser, Natalia Petrovskaia and I are looking for an enthusiastic PhD candidate for our research project ‘Empowering Individuals, Opening Cities: Multilingual Books as Cultural Brokers in the Sixteenth Century’!

Important interview (in Dutch) about first-generation students in the Netherlands by UU Honours College student Michelle Moonen

The Lorentz Center and the Netherlands eScience Center @akademienl.social invite researchers to join the eScience Center - Lorentz Competition 2024. This year the focus is on:
Innovation in Digital Heritage Research. Send us your idea by 3 May 2024.
bit.ly/4949vVm

and finally, Anna Grasskamp's #ERC success means she is hiring an Associate Professor in History of Art  (258311) | University of Oslo (jobbnorge.no)
#academicjob
#ArtHistory
Anna Grasskamp, ECOART, hf.uio.no/ifikk/english/…

What were History of Science students doing in a lab, performing experiments?! Find out how students of Utrecht History & Philosophy of Science discovered the struggles of early-modern ink-making and illustrating practices during the History of Knowledge course: shellsandpebbles.com/2024/03/18/pra…

Do you want to explore the Europeanisation of the universities?

I am currently recruiting two postdocs (24 months) within a larger project on the European universities since the 1980s. Please spread the word!

newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/03/15/2-r…

CALL FOR PAPERS: “History of Intellectual Culture”

HIC is an international yearbook devoted to the history of knowledge (published by De Gruyter History). It is currently inviting contributions and/or guest editors for Volume 4 (2025).

More information: newhistoryofknowledge.com/2024/03/04/cfp…

Gave my final RiR presentation at KB NL research today and got some nice gifts 😊 It was super fun, hartelijk dank! (Also achievement unlocked: answered all questions in Dutch 🧡)

(updated) CALL FOR PROPOSALS: The Journal for the History of Knowledge is now receiving proposals for the Special Issue 2026. The proposal deadline is 1 May 2024. All information is available on our website: journalhistoryknowledge.org/announcement/v…

The JHOK 2023 Volume, which includes the Special Issue 'Entangled Temporalities', is now available in hard copy from Brepols: brepols.net/products/IS-97…