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• Job: Postdoctoral researcher, “Moving Animals: A History” (5 yrs; History Department, Maastricht University; Deadline 7 May 2019)

  

  Applicants are invited for a 5 year postdoctoral position within the project “Moving Animals: A History of Science, Media and Policy in the Twentieth Century”. The project is funded by a NWO Vici grant awarded to the principal investigator, Dr. Raf De Bont.

  Research project

  The project ‘Moving Animals’ will study how the long-distance movement of wild animals has been understood, represented and managed in the course of the twentieth century. While historians of globalization have extensively studied the movement of humans, commodities and ideas, they overall had little attention for animal movement and the ways in which it has been perceived and managed by humans.

  ‘Moving Animals’ will combine perspectives from the history of science, cultural history and environmental history, in order to analyze (1) the ways in which humans have gained (both scientific and ‘vernacular’) knowledge about animal movement, (2) how this movement has been represented in the media, (3) how animal mobilities have been actively managed and have become the object of governance.

  Read more on AcademicTransfer.com

• Call for Papers and Panels: The Making of the Humanities VIII, “Decentralizing the History of the Humanities” (University of Cape Town, South Africa, November 21–23, 2019; Deadline 1 July 2019)

  

  The Making of the Humanities conference series is going to South Africa! The University of Cape Town will host the 8th conference in the series, from 21 till 23 November 2019, at the facilities of the Faculties of Economics and Law (Middle Campus). Lees meer…

• Vacancy Friday: Jobs in Leiden and Maastricht (PhD, Post-doc, Assistant Professor; Deadlines 31 May, 30 April)

  

  The following vacancies are currently open:

  Maastricht University

  • Assistant professor in history of information, computing, and digitality at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Department of History (Maastricht University, tenure-track position, 6yrs; Deadline 30 April 2019)

  Leiden University

  • Postdoc Position “Scholarly Dogmatism: A Rhetorical History, 1800-2000” (Prof. Herman Paul, Leiden University; Deadline 31 May 2019)
  • Ph.D. Position “The Dark Middle Ages: Language of Vice in Histories of Science, 1700-1900” (Prof. Herman Paul, Leiden University; Deadline 31 May 2019)
  • Ph.D. Position “Hodegetics: Language of Vice in Student Advice Literature, 1700-1900” (Prof. Herman Paul, Leiden University; Deadline 31 May 2019)
  • Ph.D. Position “Idols of the Mind: Modern Variations on a Baconian Theme, 1800-2000” (Prof. Herman Paul, Leiden University; Deadline 31 May 2019)

• Call for articles: Universitaire cultuur 1780-1940 (Deadline: 1 oktober 2019)

  

  Foto: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

  De redactie van De Moderne Tijd heeft de ambitie een themanummer te gaan wijden aan de universitaire cultuur in Nederland en Vlaanderen in de periode die het tijdschrift bestrijkt, de lange negentiende eeuw (1780-1940).

  Aanleiding daarvoor is de hartenkreet die Eelco Runia in januari 2018 publiceerde in de NRC: ‘Waarom ik ontslag neem bij de universiteit’. Bij wijze van exitgesprek legt hij in dat artikel uit waarom hij zijn baan als docent aan de Rijksuniversiteit Groningen heeft opgezegd. Hij constateert dat het neoliberale bestuursmodel dat marktdenken heeft opgelegd aan de universiteiten, hem als docent dwingt zijn wetenschappelijke en professionele idealen en identiteit te verloochenen. Lees meer…

• Conference: Teaching the history of Knowledge: Purposes, Problems, Practices (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, 20 March 2019)

  

  This one-day conference, organized by the VU Stevin Centre in celebration of its fifth anniversary, focuses on the rationales of teaching the history of knowledge and on finding appealing ways of doing so. How do we convey the important and relevance of our courses? And what exactly is our message? What, for instance, is the added value for medical students of a course in the history of medicine? Which competences should we aim to teach in our courses? And how can we innovate and optimize our teaching? How do we cater for the needs of several different target groups? What do museums have to offer to our students? How can we make students experience the so-called “historical sensation”?

  Read more on the web site of CLUE

• CfA: 5th International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (Bergamo, Italy, 28-30 October 2019; Deadline 30 April 2019)

  

  Today more than ever computers have taken center stage in our lives: science, economy, politics, art, there is no single human endeavour that has been left unaffected by Information Technologies. Whether this impact is positive or negative, is still very much up for debate.

  People connected to the Internet can enjoy an unprecedented amount of information and computing power at their disposal, but more and more negative side effects of a widespread use of computers are brought to our attention: automation bias, echo chambers, shortened attention spans, job displacement, election hacking are just a few examples. The latest AI-hype fuelled by computationally feasible machine learning techniques have brought to reality philosophical topics previously relegated to mental experiments and theoretical discourses. The trolley problem has never been more popular thanks to self-driving cars. Lees meer…

• Workshop/CfP: “Deep History in the Long Eighteenth Century” & Lecture by Martin Rudwick (Amsterdam, 8 May 2019; Deadline 20 March)

  

  The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (UvA) will host a workshop on ‘deep history in the long eighteenth century’ with the prominent historian of science Martin Rudwick (University of Cambridge). We welcome scholars from a variety of backgrounds to participate in this workshop. Lees meer…

• Podcast: Tatiana Afanassjewa, vrouw tussen de Einsteins (NRC, “Onbehaarde Apen”)

  

  In recent gevonden Einsteinbrieven correspondeert de wereldberoemde natuurkundige met Tatiana Afanassjewa. Wie was deze Russisch-Nederlandse wiskundige, die vooral bekend is geworden als de vrouw van hoogleraar Paul Ehrenfest? In deze aflevering van Onbehaarde Apen alles over Afanassjewa, haar werk en haar bijzondere band met Einstein.

  Lees hier meer of luister naar de podcast met Lucas Brouwers, Hendrik Spiering en Margriet van der Heijden.