Call for Applications: TransPositions Summer School 2017: "Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise" (Zeist, 21-25 August; Deadline 22 February 2017)

Applications are requested for the TransPositions Summer School 2017: Sensible Objects, Material Engagement, Skilled Expertise, to be held from Monday 21 August through Friday 25 August 2017 in the Woudschoten Hotel & Conference Centre near Utrecht, The Netherlands.

This edition of the TransPositions Summer School focusses on material culture and the senses. How can we investigate sensory experiences of past material cultures or cultures that are not our own? And how can we reconstruct in our studies the experiential richness of ephemera and material practices “lost in transmission” or only preserved in textual sources? The summer school approaches these questions across different disciplines including art history, archaeology, anthropology, conservation, musicology, performance and media studies, cognitive science, and religion- and science studies. Lees meer…

"Scholarly Personae" – New issue of the Low Countries History Review

The time that the history of science was about particular individuals of genius and their discoveries is now in the past. In recent decades historiographical attention has shifted from the scientists and their ideas to the broader social and cultural processes of knowledge production. As a result, the role of institutions, networks, money and power has received more attention, as have the parts played by spatial and material aspects such as architecture, infrastructure, instruments and animals. Among other things, historians sought the answer to the question of how and why certain forms of knowledge were accepted as true or authoritative in a particular context, while others were not. This has led to the scientists themselves coming back into the picture. Lees meer…

Call for Papers and Panels: The Making of the Humanities VI (Oxford, September 28-30, 2017; Deadline 15 April 2017)

The sixth conference on the history of the humanities, ‘The Making of the Humanities VI’, will take place at the University of Oxford, Humanities Division and Somerville College, UK, from 28 until 30 September 2017. Lees meer…