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• Job: Two-year post-doctoral position in the history of Alfonsine astronomy in Europe (Deadline: 25 September 2018)

  ALFA is an ERC funded project dedicated to the study of Alfonsine astronomy which flourished in Europe from the second half of the 13th to the mid-16th century (2017-2022, 60 month, Consolidator grant 2016 agreement 723085). Lees meer…

• Studiedag: Biografie van het universiteitsgebouw (Eindhoven, 3 juli 2018)

  

  Er is veel geschreven over de geschiedenis van universiteiten en de ontwikkeling van het instituut ‘universiteit’ door de eeuwen heen. Menig universiteit heeft bovendien publicaties gewijd aan de geschiedenis van de eigen huisvesting. Maar voor zover bekend is er recent in Nederland nog weinig overkoepelende aandacht voor universiteitsgebouwen als fysieke objecten van academisch erfgoed. Lees meer…

• Job: Postdoc ‘B-magic. The Magic Lantern and its Cultural Impact as Visual Mass Medium in Belgium (1830-1940)’ (KU Leuven; Deadline 21 July 2018)

  

  For Cultural History since 1750, KU Leuven is looking for a postdoctoral researcher who will work in the framework of the EOS-project ‘B-magic. The Magic Lantern and its Cultural Impact as Visual Mass Medium in Belgium (1830-1940)’ on the subproject ‘Between Instruction and Delight: the Magic Lantern in the late 19th- and early 20th century Belgian Visual Media Landscape.’ You can apply for this job no later than July 21. Lees meer…

• Job: Doctoral Student “Education through Images. The Magic Lantern in Belgian Schools, 1830-1940″ (KU Leuven; Deadline 21 July 2018)

  

  For Cultural History since 1750, KU Leuven is looking for a doctoral student who will work in the framework of the EOS-project ‘B-magic. The Magic Lantern and its Cultural Impact as Visual Mass Medium in Belgium (1830-1940)’ on a doctoral project entitled ‘Education through Images. The Magic Lantern in Belgian Schools, 1830-1940’. You can apply for this job until July 21. For more information, click this link.

• Save the date: History of Science Society annual meeting in Utrecht (23–27 July 2019)

  

  Founded in 1924, the History of Science Society annual meetings have become the main annual conference in the history of science. So far, the meetings have always taken place in the USA or Canada, but in 2019 it will come to Europe for the first time. Please save the date: 23–27 July 2019 in Utrecht. Please note that the conference will be in the summer, rather than in November as usual. Lees meer…

• Medicine, Science, and New Regimes of Accountability: Governance in the Second Half of the Twentieth Century (Utrecht, 21-22 June 2018)

  

  This workshop explores the changing governance of medicine and the biomedical sciences in the second half of the twentieth century. In this period, the professional role of physicians and scientists in developed nations changed radically. Whereas up until the 1950s they had enjoyed a high degree of autonomy in deciding what type of interventions were permitted in their research and practice, they were increasingly called upon in the years thereafter to justify their conduct in formally arranged settings.

  This change in governance was not limited to medicine and the biomedical sciences. In a wide variety of professional domains, the latter half of the twentieth century saw the rise of what anthropologists have termed ‘a culture of accountability’: the realization of oversight regimes designed to subject the performance of professionals to regular inspection and to oblige them to account for their activities in organized settings. Yet, in the governance of medicine and the biomedical sciences, this change has often been considered drastic and disruptive—an aberration from the old status quo that was believed to be historically without precedent and that experienced tensions with ideals of professional autonomy and scientific freedom in ‘open societies’.

  With a group of historians, science scholars and health care managers, this workshop takes stock of research into postwar governance of medicine and the biomedical sciences and intends to bring together a community of people who are keen on reflecting on the goals and limits of medicine and science and their position in late modern societies.

  Programme

  Thursday, June 21

  9.30-10.00: Coffee & arrivals

  Chair: Frank Huisman

  10.00-10.45: Introductory lecture (Noortje Jacobs): ‘Ethics by committee. Attempts at governing medical science in late modern democracies’

  10.45-12.45: Reflections from the trenches

  • Margriet Schneider (Chair of the Board, UMC Utrecht): title tba
  • Wendy Reijmerink (ZonMW): ‘Improving societal impact of health research: How to govern from a funders perspective’
  • Annelien Bredenoord (UMC Utrecht): title tba

  12.45-14.00: lunch

  14.00-16.00: Internal control

  • Laura Stark (Nashville, USA): ‘Scientists as regulators: Consensus and the problem of authority in late modern ethics review’
  • Sara de Rijcke (CWTS Leiden): title tba
  • Ivan Flis (UU): ‘Open Science as a reform movement’

  16.00-16.30: Taking stock

  17.00: Drinks

  19:00 Conference dinner

  Friday, June 22

  (Kanunnikenzaal). Chair: Nancy Tomes

  9.30-11.30: External control

  • Nancy Tomes (Stony Brook, USA): ‘The patient as “watch bird”: Patients’ roles in the quest for “quality improvement” in the late 20th c. U.S.’
  • James Kennedy (UC Utrecht): title tba
  • Duncan Wilson (Manchester, UK): ‘”A single European market in ethical ideas”: Towards a history of bioethics in the EEC and the EU’

  11.30-12.10: Political dealings

  • Roland Bal (EUR): ‘Layering the health care system: From professional dominance to organized professionalism’

  12.10-13.30: Lunch

  13.30-15.00: Political dealings (ctd)

  • Timo Bolt (EUR): ‘A doctor’s order: the Dutch case of evidence-based medicine’
  • Paul Atkinson (Liverpool, UK): ‘New regimes of accountability in health services research: England since the 1990s’

  15.00-15.30: Refreshments

  15.30-16.00: Final discussion (Frank & Nancy)

  Venue

  Belle van Zuylenzaal, Academiegebouw, Domplein 29, 3512 JE  Utrecht

  Admission and registration

  The workshop is open to all those who are interested. Due to limited seating capacity, we kindly ask you to sign up to the workshop by sending an email to n.jacobs@erasmusmc.nl. Lunch will be provided.

• “Inslaglustrum” van de Meteoriet van Utrecht (Sonnenborgh, Utrecht, 2 & 3 juni 2018)

  

  In Nederland zijn tot nu toe 6 meteorieten ingeslagen. Eén daarvan – de grootste – kwam in 1843 in Utrecht neer. Op 2 juni a.s. is dat 175 jaar geleden en dat viert Museum en Sterrenwacht Sonnenborgh i.s.m. de Werkgroep Meteoren. Met een feestelijke inslaglustrum-avond op 2 juni en een Zondag met meteorieten op 3 juni. Lees meer…

• Chemie Historische Groep organiseert rondleiding in het depot van Rijksmuseum Boerhaave (Leiden, 7 juni 2018)

  

  Van de enorme collectie van Rijksmuseum Boerhaave is slechts een klein deel te zien in het museum zelf: het grootste deel bevindt zich in het depot. Mocht u nieuwsgierig zijn naar wat deze ‘schatkamer vol menselijk vernuft’ allemaal herbergt, dan kunt u die nieuwsgierigheid binnenkort bevredigen: de CHG organiseert namelijk i.s.m. het museum een rondleiding door de bonte collectie in het depot, en wel op donderdag 7 juni 2018. Lees meer…