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• 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.

• Call for Papers: Memory and Identity in the Learned World Community. Formation in the Early Modern World of Science and Learning (Deadline: 1 May 2019)

  

  On November 7-9, 2019, the ERC project Sharing Knowledge in Learned and Literary Networks (SKILLNET) will organize a conference at Utrecht University on memory and identity in the early modern learned world. The central question for this conference is how scholars, scientists, and learned men and women formed a community by remembering and identification. Confirmed keynote speakers are prof. dr. Karl Enenkel and prof. dr. Judith Pollmann. Lees meer…

• Blog: ‘Met eene liefde, die nooit kan wegsterven in mijn hart’: opkomst en ondergang van Neerlandistiek aan de VU

  

  Met het recente besluit de opleiding Nederlands niet meer aan te bieden voor nieuwe bachelorstudenten, komt een eind aan een tijdperk aan de VU. De studierichting Nederlands bestond sinds 1918, toen de eerste lector in dit vak werd benoemd. Nederlandse taal- en letterkunde werd echter al vanaf de stichting van de universiteit in 1880 gedoceerd aan alle studenten. Hoe heeft het zover kunnen komen, en hoe moet het verder?

  Lees verder op Geheugen van de VU

• Conference: Researcher meets Curator (Maastricht, 22 March 2019)

  

  As a historical and literary genre, the biography has gone through a metamorphosis over the past decades. Until fairly recently, its usual shape consisted of a chronological narrative, from the cradle to the grave, fixed mostly on a more or less autonomous development of the person being described. That has changed significantly: not only is the strict adherence to chronology no longer a given, biographies increasingly focus on a particular aspect of a person’s life. Alternatively, historians seek to investigate someone’s life as part of a wider historical question, be it cultural, economic, or social. And finally, the very term “biography” is often being used in a much broader sense: we see biographies not only of people, but also of objects, geographical features, and even events.

  The aim of this conference is to create an inventory of these related developments, and explore their consequences for curators, archivists and researchers of university collections alike.

  Read more at the Stichting Academisch Erfgoed web site