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• Call for Papers: Dutch Historians’ Days 2019: Inclusive History (Groningen, 22-24 August 2019; Deadline 28 January 2019)

  

  Preparations for the biennial Dutch Historian’s Days (from the 22nd to the 24th of August 2019) are in full swing. The three-day event, jointly organised by the Royal Netherlands Historical Society (KNHG) and the History Department of the University of Groningen (UG), is meant for everyone interested in history, professionally or otherwise. Lees meer…

• Nomineer je favoriete chemisch erfgoed

  

  Nederland kent een rijke chemische historie, met veel bekende Nobelprijswinnaars en kwalitatief hoogstaand onderzoek. Veel locaties in Nederland hebben dan ook een bijzondere chemische geschiedenis. De Chemie Historische Groep en de KNCV willen belangrijk chemisch erfgoed op de kaart zetten en benoemen tot Chemical Landmark, oftewel Nationaal Chemisch Erfgoed. In 2018 heeft de Ovale Zaal in het Teylers Museum in Haarlem als eerste deze titel gekregen.

  Voor 2019 zijn wij op zoek naar nieuwe historisch relevante nominaties. Helpt u mee? Nomineer dan een locatie die u van historisch belang acht. Dit kan tot 31 januari 2019 via de website van de Chemie Historische Groep van de KNCV. Lees meer…

• Job: Fully funded PhD position “Atmospheric Tides Science”, Ghent University & Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice (Deadline: 28 February 2019)

  

  Ghent University & Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice offer a fully funded PhD position for the research of Atmospheric Tides Science. The student will work on a specific project under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Steven Vanden Broecke (Ghent University) and Prof. Dr. Craig Martin (Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia). Lees meer…

• Belgische botanici, Campers schoenen en de Stufi: Studium Jaargang 11, nummer 2 is uit

  

  Studium 11: 2 (2018) is uit! Alle artikelen zijn ook in open acces te lezen via de website: Lees meer…

• [REMINDER] Call for Papers: History of Science Society annual meeting (Utrecht, 23-27 July 2019; Deadline 7 January 2019)

  The History of Science Society (HSS) will hold its 2019 annual meeting in the beautiful Dutch town of Utrecht, a short train ride from Amsterdam. Since this will be the HSS’s first meeting outside of North America, and we will be closer to scholars in Russia, in East and South Asia, and Africa, we especially encourage proposals that include scholars from different countries. The Society encourages submissions on all topics. Proposals (250-word maximum for abstracts) must be submitted via the HSS submission system on the meeting website. Read more on the meeting website.

• Call for papers: Researcher meets Curator (Maastricht, 22 March 2019; Deadline 15 January 2019)

  

  The Organizing Committee invites you to submit abstracts of proposed presentations for a conference on the trends in scientist biographies and its consequences for curators, archivists and researchers of university and scientific collections. Organized by the Dutch Foundation for Academic Heritage (SAE), Maastricht University, and the Huygens Institute for the History of the Netherlands (Royal Net. Acad. Arts & Sc).

  Read more on the web site of Stichting Academisch Erfgoed

• Call for Proposals: Journal for the History of Knowledge, Special Issue Fall 2020 (Deadline: 15 January 2019)

  

  The Journal for the History of Knowledge, to be launched in 2020, will include an annual special issue, compiled by guest editors, which explores a theme central to its scope (see below). We welcome proposals which problematize and historicize the nature of (different kinds of) knowledge, its boundaries, practices, hierarchies, and/or institutionalization. Lees meer…

• Call for Papers: When doctors travel overseas. Colonial medicine and the Low Countries Spring Meeting Gewina (Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren (B), 5 April 2019; Deadline 31 January 2019)

   

  

  Medicine was an inseparable part of colonialism. Research on tropical diseases was carried out in laboratories. (Ship) doctors supported colonial expeditions. Missionaries tried to push a western ideal of reproduction onto the natives. Colonial companies watched over the health of the workforce in order not to hamper economic production. All of this also added to providing the colonial presence with a humanitarian imprint. This colloquium will focus on the multiple connections between medicine and colonialism, in relation to the Low Countries. Lees meer…