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Events calendar en News page at the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences web site

Recent news items on the DWC

[Conference in Dutch] Middag van de VU-historie (Amsterdam, 20 June 2013)
[In Dutch] Gewina Anniversary Design Contest (Deadline: 1 October 2013)
Eric Jorink appointed Teyler Professor for the study of Social aspects of the Enlightenment
[Report in Dutch] Boerhaave Museum receives (more) Paul Ehrenfest archives (Pim Huijnen)
Program for the 5th Gewina-Woudschoten Conference available (14-15 June 2013)
[Conference] Positioning Academic Heritage. Challenges for Universities, museums and society in the 21st century. (Ghent, 18 – 20 November 2013)
[Presentation] ePistolarium, A Web-based Collaboratory on Scholarly Correspondences from the 17th-Century Dutch Republic (Utrecht, 13 June 2013)
[Column in Dutch] De Cheshire kat (Frans van Lunteren)
[Call for Papers] Science, Imagination, and the Illustration of Knowledge (Oxford, 7-8 November 2013; Deadline: 5 July 2013)
[Job] Post-doctoral position in history and philosophy of life sciences: Politics of the cell: the emergence and the reception of the cell theory in France and Germany, circa 1800-1900 (Strasbourg, France; Deadline: 1 July 2013)
VU University of Amsterdam appoints university historian (in Dutch)
[Call for Proposals] Symposium Universiteit, wetenschap en religie in Nederland (Utrecht, 13 December 2013; Deadline 1 August 2013)
[Job] 1 PhD researcher in the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities (1,0 fte) (Embedded in the Descartes Centre, Utrecht University; Deadline 9 June)
[Call for Papers] “Erudites and Polymaths” (27-29 March 2014, New York City; Deadline 30 May 2013)
[Job] Instruments of Exploration: Technologies of Geographical Enquiry, c. 1860-c. 1939. A Fully-Funded ANRC PhD Scholarship (Deadline: 8 May 2013)
[Conference] Building Blocks of the Material World. Mini-symposium on historical aspects of chemical elements (Utrecht, 23 May)
[Conference] Aristotelian Natural Philosophy in the Early Modern Period (Brussels, 23-24 May 2013)
(Nederlands) Nieuwsbrief Universiteitsgeschiedenis en Batavia Academica online
[Jobs] Two doctoral positions (History of Medicine / History of Science, Berlin / QMUL; Deadline 15 May 2013)
[Call for Papers] Mars and Museum (Berlin, 18-20 Sep 2014; Deadline 30 April 2013)
[Job] Paid interns in the history of science and technology at the National Maritime Museum UK (Deadline: 22 April 2013)
[Call for Papers] Visual Illusions – past, present and future use (Leicester, 7 June 2013; Deadline 10 May)
[Book] Between Rhetoric and Reality – Instrumental Practices at the Astronomical Observatory of the Amsterdam Society ‘Felix Meritis’, 1786-1889
[Call for Papers] Victorian Body Parts (Clerkenwell, 14 September 2013; Deadline 31 May 2013)
[Jobs] Three postdoctoral fellowships for up to three months at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin (Deadline: 30 June 2013)
[Call for Applications] GHS – FMSH Postdoctoral Fellowships (Deadline: 30 April 2012)
[Conference] Notebooks, Medicine and the Sciences in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge, 12-13 July 2013)
[Online source] Early modern scientific and medical travel
[Opinion] Dutch movable stations in nature – ‘for a dime on the first row’
[Column in Dutch] Eureka! (Frans van Lunteren)
[Symposium] (her)gebruik van de collecties in wetenschappelijk onderzoek, i.c.m. Dijksterhuislezing (Amsterdam)
(Nederlands) [Stemadvies] Arjen Dijkstra in de NWO-Bessensap filmwedstrijd
[Call for Papers] Positioning Academic Heritage. Challenges for Universities, museums and society in the 21st century (Gent, 18-20 November 2013; Deadline 1 June 2013)
[Call for Papers] The Radical Enlightenment: The Big Picture and its Details (Brussels, 16-17 May 2013; Deadline 31 March 2013)
[CfP Reminder] History of Science Society 2013 Annual Meeting (Boston, 21-24 November 2013; Deadline 1 April 2013)
[Call for Papers] Chemistry in Material Culture Conference (Uppsala, 21-23 August, 2013; Deadline 31 March 2013)
[Ph.D. Positions] University of Göteborg (Deadline: 22 March 2013)
[Conference] Laboratories of Art (Berlin, 7-8 March)
[In Dutch] Flogiston en andere nieuwlichterij (Frans van Lunteren)
[News] New mailing list for the history of the physical sciences
[Call for Papers] HaPoC 2013 : 2nd International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing 2013 (Paris, 28-31 October 2013; Deadline 30 April 2013)
[Scholarship] Newton International Fellowships (Deadline: 10 April 2013)
(Nederlands) [Projectverslag] Vroegmoderne collegedictaten in Leuven en in Leiden
[Ptak Science Books] On Stability and Observation in the Earliest Microscopical Worlds
[Call for Papers] Healthy Living in Pre-Modern Europe. The Theory and Practice of the Six Non-Naturals (c.1400-1700) (London, 13-14 September 2013; Deadline 24 March 2013)
[Call for Papers] XIV Universeum Network Meeting: University heritage today: Beyond public engagement? (Valencia, 6–8 June 2013; Deadline 28 February 2013)
[Source] Science and Technology ‘showcase’ at the European Library
[Call for Papers] 2013 HSS Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts (Deadline: 1 April, 2013)
[in Dutch] Marginal notes in Medieval texts as a historical source. Report of Mariken Teeuwen’s inaugural address
Call for Papers: Chemistry in material culture. 9th International Conference in the History of Chemistry (Uppsala University, 21-23 August 2013; 31 March 2013)
[Jobs] Two lectureships, five studentships at Kings College, London (Deadlines: 20 Feb 2013 and 15 May 2013)
[Scholarship] Pam Laird Research Grant (Deadline: 1 May 2013)
[Column in Dutch] Scientific Malpractice in the Age of Enlightenment: Pieter Gabry (Huib Zuidervaart)
Minisymposium Newton, Darwin, Einstein & Nederland
Call for Applications: Creating Life: From Alchemy to Synthetic Biology: 13th Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Sciences (Ischia, 29 June – 6 July 2013; deadline, 15 February 2013)
AWARD: ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars 2013 (Deadline, 8 February 2013)
EVENTS: Friends of The Courtauld Spring 2013 Lecture Series: Visualising Knowledge in Early Modern Europe (London; starts 15 January 2013)
REMINDER: Call for Papers: 5th Woudschoten-Gewina Meeting: Uses of Knowledge (14-15 June 2013, deadline 1 January)
Call for Papers: History of science and technologies – Springer Edited Book (Deadline, 31 December 2012)
(Nederlands) Event: Koningsblauw en giftig groen Mini-symposium over geschiedenis van pigmenten (Museum Boerhaave, 19 december 2012)
(Nederlands) Aankondiging academischecollecties.nl: website erfgoedcollecties Nederlandse universiteiten
Event: Workshop Descartes Centre ‘Concepts in the University’ (Utrecht, 12 December 2012)
(Nederlands) Aankondiging: Mastertraject Medische Geschiedenis 2013, VU (vanaf 6 februari 2013)
(Nederlands) UITNODIGING Lancering collectiewebsite universitaire collecties (KHL Amsterdam, 30 november 2012)
(Nederlands) Studiemiddag De dierenwereld van Conrad Gessner in woord en beeld (Amsterdam, 26 november 2012)
(Nederlands) URGENT: Symposium Typography in the Service of Scholarship en tentoonstelling (Leiden, 9 november 2012)
(Nederlands) Aankondiging: 6e Domus dag over ‘Reizende dokters’ (Utrecht, 6 december 2012)
News: Inventing Europe, now online!
Event: Sarton Lecture by Prof. Robert Bud (Gent, 22 November 2012)
(Nederlands) Nieuws: eerste Boerhaave Biografie Prijs naar Kees Schuyt
(Nederlands) Jobs: Banen en beurzen in GB en VS (verschillende deadlines in november-december 2012)
(Nederlands) Aankondiging: De gevoelige plaat. Mini-symposium over fotocollecties (Amsterdam, 29 oktober)
(Nederlands) Aankondiging: De Nacht van Descartes 2012 – Geestverruimend (Utrecht, 25 oktober)
Aankondiging: KNHG najaarscongres Voorwerpen maken geschiedenis. Niet-schriftelijke bronnen in historisch onderzoek (Den Haag, 2 November 2012)
Announcement: AHRC-funded network on the Public History of Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine
Call for Articles: Literature and the Stars (deadline 15 November 2012)
(Nederlands) Nieuws: Wetenschapsgeschiedenis in de musea
(Nederlands) Terugzien: Anthony Grafton en Jonathan Israel over Spinoza’s kritiek op de Bijbel
News: Release project website and test version Circulation of Knowledge – Research Environment
Invitation international applications for the Paul Bunge Prize 2013 (deadline 30 September 2012)
Call for Participation: “The Making of the Humanities III” (Rome, 1-3 November 2012; registration deadline 15 September 2012)
Reminder: research grants Scientific Instrument Society (deadline 1 September 2012)
(Nederlands) Nieuws: artikel in New York Times over spectaculaire vervalsing van de ‘New Yorkse proefeditie’ van Galilei’s ‘Sidereus Nuncius’
Call for Papers: Demons and Illness: Theory and Practice from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period (Exeter, 22-24 April 2013; Deadline, 15 September 2012)
Announcement: HSS launches new History of Chemistry interest group
(Nederlands) Verslag 5e Descartes-Huygens lezing: De preek van Pickstone (door Robert-Jan Wille)
(Nederlands) Verzoek om voordrachten: Pieter van Foreest Wetenschapsprijs 2012 (deadline 15 augustus 2012)
Forum History Human Sciences Prize Submissions Deadline: Extended to July 1
The Leiden Declaration on Human Anatomy/Anatomical Collections
(Nederlands) Call for Proposals nieuw boek “Illness and Literature” (Deadline abstract, 1 juli 2012; Deadline artikel; 1 oktober 2012)
Reminder: Fifth Descartes-Huygens lecture by Professor John V. Pickstone (Utrecht, 14 June 2012)
Oproep: aanmelden voor overzicht wetenschapshistorische netwerken op DWC
New book: Correspondence Van Nierop as third volume in the series ‘Tools and Sources for the History of Science in the Netherlands’
Job: Digital Resources Engagement Officer Royal Museums Greenwich (Deadline; 27 May 2012)
New book: Dissertation on C.G.C. Reinwardt
Nieuws: Medisch-historische marktdag 2012 (Utrecht, 1 juni)
Registration open for Reading Artifacts Summer Institute (Ottawa, Canada, 13-17 August; deadline 15 June)
News: Something to See!
Job: 2 PhD researchers Utrecht University (deadline 1 June 2012)
Call for papers: Universität der Dinge. Akademisches Sammeln in der Diskussion (Göttingen 4-6 Oktober 2012; Deadline 31 Mai 2012)
Job: Lecturer in History of Medicine from 1850, Oxford Brookes University (deadline 16 May)
News: New history of science picture and manuscript databases online
Call for papers: Between science and history. Historians and scientists about science and its history (Leiden, 8 June 2012; Deadline 7 May)
Call for Papers: Mathematical Cultures (London 10-12 September 2012; Deadline 1 May 2012)
Job: Eleanor Searle Visiting Professorship 2013-2014, California Institute of Technology (no deadline)
Call for papers: European Networks in the Baroque Era (Vienna 26-29 September 2012; Deadline 30 April 2012)
(Nederlands) Nieuws: analyse medisch-historische bronnen werpt nieuw licht op de dood van Willem van Oranje
News: Florike Egmond (Leiden University) on re-discovering the Gessner & Platter animal drawings in Amsterdam
Conference on David Gorlaeus (27 april 2012, Cornjum)
Call for (symposia) papers: International Congress of History of Science, Technology and Medicine (Manchester 22-28 July 2013; Deadline 30 April 2012)
Job opportunities in the history of science (London, Belfast, Munich; several deadlines in April-May)
Studium launched as Open Access journal
Call for papers: Bohr atom centennial conference (Copenhagen, June 2013; no deadline)
Call for papers: SISFA 2012 (Rome, 27-29 September 2012; Deadline 31 May)
Job: Research Scholar Position MPIWG Berlin (deadline 30 april 2012)
Wetenschapshistorisch Descartes Colloquium: Andrew Goss (Utrecht, 3 April 2012)
13th international Conference on the History of Science in China (Athens, 22-27 July 2012)
Call for Papers: Psychical Research in the History of Medicine and the Sciences (London, 26-27 January 2013; Deadline 1 July 2012)
Oproep Hospitium: verzameling gegevens musea & collecties zorg-, geneeskunde- en hospitaalgeschiedenis Benelux (deadline 14 mei)
Jobs: EURIAS Fellowship Programme, 32 fellowships (various institutes; Deadline 7 June 2012)
Online edition of the Clusius correspondence: Collaborate!
Call for Papers: Animal Models, Model Animals? Meanings and Practices in the History of the Biomedical Sciences (Manchester, 21 September 2012; Deadline 31 May 2012)
Call for Papers: Ars et Medicina Symposium (Rome, 7-8 May 2012; Deadline 15 March, 2012)
Call for Papers: Science in Public Conference 2012 (London, 20-21 July 2012; Deadline 2 April 2012)
Job: Chair in the History of Science (HEC1) (EUI Florence; Deadline 25 March 2012)
Call for Papers: Gardening and Knowledge. Landscape Design and the Sciences in the Early Modern Period (Hannover, September 17-19 2012; Deadline 29 Feb 2012)
Jobs: Three PhD positions at Maastricht University (Deadline: 30 March 2012)
Jobs: Four Ph.D. Studentships in Philosophy / History and Philosophy of Science 2012-2013 (University of Leeds; Deadline 2 March 2012)
Travel grants: The Andrew W. Mellon Travel Fellowship program (University of Oklahoma: continuing application)
Course: M.A. History of Art: Visualizing Knowledge in the Early Modern Netherlands (MA course in the History of Art, Courtauld Institute for the History of Art, London)
Job: Post-doctoral position in the History of Science from Antiquity to the early Scientific Revolution (UNED, Madrid; Deadline: 20 February, 2012)
Job: Postdoctoral scholarship for a scholar in classics with a specialization in Early Modern Latin (Max-Planck-Institut, Berlin; Deadline 24 April, 2012)
Call for Papers: Perspective as Practice. An international conference on the circulation of optical knowledge in and outside the workshop (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, 12-13 October 2012; Deadline: 15 March 2012)
Competition: International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science / Division of History of Science and Technology 2013 DHST Prize for Young Scholars (Deadline: 31 August 2012)
Call for Abstracts: Women in the Laboratory (ESHS, Athens, 1-3 November 2012; Deadline: 24 February, 2012)
Call for Papers: The Making of the Humanities III (Rome, 1-3 Nov 2012; Deadline 1 June 2012)
Call for Papers: Perspective as Practice. An international conference on the circulation of optical knowledge in and outside the workshop (Berlin, October 12-13, 2012; Deadline: 15 March, 2012)
Conference: “History Comes to Life: Seventeenth-Century Natural History, Medicine and the ‘New Science” (Royal Society, London, 27 April 2012)
Nieuwe serie Salon Boerhaave met historische live-experimenten
Jobs: Research Associates (post-doctoral) in History and Philosophy of Social Science (University of Cambridge; Deadline 10 February 2012)
Art and Science in the Early Modern Netherlands gepresenteerd in Rijksmuseum
Beurzen: University of Kent scholarships (Project-specific; Deadline: 27 February 2012)
Job: Project Curator; Science (The British Museum; Deadline January 27)
Call for Papers: Artefacts 2012 (Edinburgh, 7-9 October 2012; Deadline 30 april 2012)
Publicatie: Album amicorum H.G. van de Sande Bakhuyzen (1908) online
Call for contributions: Book project Student Revolt, City and Society – From the Middle Ages until Today (Deadline: 1 April 2012)
Presentatie Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek, ‘Art and Science’ in het Rijksmuseum Amsterdam (13 januari 2012; Deadline aanmelding 9 januari 2012)
Verslag: Conferentie ‘Science and Politics at War: New Relations in the Post War Era’, (Aarhus, Denemarken, 13-14 December 2011)
Oproep voor nominaties: Nieuwe Boerhaave Biografie Prijs bekroont biograaf van wetenschapper
Newtons papieren en Utrechtse kaarten: twee ‘nieuwe’ bronnen voor de wetenschapsgeschiedenis
Teaser documentaire ‘Our last Transit of Venus’ (2012)
Verslag History of Science Society Annual Meeting in Cleveland, Ohio (3-6 November 2011)
Zaadjes voor de verbeelding: Verslag themadag ‘Tussen wetenschap & kunst’, Academiegebouw Universiteit Groningen, 14 november 2011
Conference “Worlds on Paper: Writing Natural History from Gessner to Darwin”, Linnean Society London, January 12-13, 2012
Job: Ph.D. Position, “Artists’ Collections in the Early Modern Netherlands (c. 1600-c. 1700)”; Universiteit Gent / MPI, Berlijn. Deadline: 5 Januari 2012
Nieuwe Reinwardt-brievenuitgave door Theo Mulder uitgereikt
Verslag tweede onderzoekscolloquium Netwerk Medische Geschiedenis (Den Haag, 28 oktober)
Gewina-Symposium: Het aanzien van de Nederlandse universiteiten (Utrecht, 2 December 2011)
Job: One Year (renewable) Postdoctoral Fellowship (Max-Planck-Institut; Deadline 15 December 2011)
[In Dutch] Hardnekkige conflictmythe ontkracht
‘How Dr Golem Gets Personal: Vaccine Disputes and Parental Expertise’: public seminar with Prof. Trevor Pinch (Cornell University; Utrecht, 11 November 2011)
Red Museum Boerhaave!
Studium Jaargang 4, No. 2 (2011)
Verslag: XXX Symposium of the Scientific Instrument Commission, 20–24 September 2011, Kassel, Germany
ICOHTEC Prize for Young Scholars 2012 (Deadline: 23 Jan 2012)
Verslag: Symposium ‘Where Do We Stand?', International Commission on Women in Science, Parijs, September 14-17, 2011
Verslagen: Evolutiecongres VU
Verslag: Johannes Hevelius-conferentie, Gdánsk, 15-18 September 2011
Amsterdam’s Dinosaur Population
Call for Papers: 16th biannual conference of the European Association of Museums of the History of Medical Sciences (Berlin, 13-15 September 2012; Deadline 15 May 2012)
Job: Wiss. Mitarb. / PostDoc "Literatur und Wissenschaft" (TU Berlin; Deadline 22 September 2011)
Kernkamps 'Acta et decreta senatus. Vroedschapsresolutiën en andere bescheiden betreffende de Utrechtse Academie' online.
Symposium: Waar komen we vandaan? Anderhalve eeuw evolutiedebat in protestants-christelijk Nederland (VU, Amsterdam, 23 september 2011)
Scholarships: Linda Hall Library resident fellowship 2012 (Deadline: 3 January, 2012)
Boekpresentatie: P. Lombaerde& C van den Heuvel [Eds.], Early Modern Urbanism and The Grid. Town Planning in The Low Countries in International Context (Den Haag, 1 September 2011)
Scholarship: Scholar-in-Residence Program, Deutsches Museum, Munich (Deadline: 12 October 2011)
[Persbericht] ‘Red Boerhaave!’-campagne beleeft daverende start met anonieme gift van een ton
[Lezing] Robert Hatch, 'The Republic of Letters: From Transcendent Ideal To Immanent Reality' (Den Haag, vrijdag 1 juli 2011)
[Verslag] Huygens-Descarteslezing door Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University)
Museum Boerhaave wordt met sluiting bedreigd.
Jobs: Two Short-term Visiting Research Fellowships, 2011-2 (Science Museum, London; deadline 1 July 2011)
Third circular and programme for Woudschoten Conference (17-18 June, Woudschoten)
Opinie: Wie vormt de brug tussen de KNAW en onze kinderen?
Symposium: Skulls on Display. Ethnology and Empire: the Example of Interwar France (Leiden, 24 juni 2011)
Vierde Huygens-Descarteslezing: Pamela H. Smith (Columbia University, NY), “In the Workshop of History: Reconstructing Lived Experience in Early Modern Europe” (Amsterdam, 15 juni 2011)
Verslag: Amerikaanse toestanden? (Over ‘Intelligent Design in het publieke domein’, Utrecht, 18 april 2011)
Verslag: Nederlandse en Deense wetenschapshistorici ontmoeten elkaar in Aarhus
Call for Papers: Symposium 'Het aanzien van de Nederlandse universiteiten' (2 december 2011; Deadline 1 augustus 2011)
Registratie voor Woudschotenconferentie geopend
Interview: Huib Zuidervaart en Rob van Gent over de oorsprong van de telescoop
Catalogus Professorum Universiteit Utrecht gelanceerd
Ph.D. Course: Historicisation – A summer course for PhD-students arranged by the Nordic network for medical history (NordForsk) (Bergen, 24 – 26 August 2011)
DWC opent online publicatie-archief
Call for Papers: International Conference on the History and Philosophy of Computing (Gent, 7-10 Nov 2011; Deadline 15 May 2011)
Utrecht Summer School: History and Philosophy of Science: Revolutions in Science (15-19 August 2011)
Workshop: Historical Development of National Systems of Elite Formation in Eastern and Central Europe (Workshop on the history of education; Geneva, 1-2 April 2011)
Boekpresentatie: The Origins of the Telescope (Leiden, 30 maart 2011)
Conferentie en Gewina-voorjaarsbijeenkomst: Academic Culture of Remembrance (Ghent, March 16 and 17, 2011)
Symposium Stichting Academisch Erfgoed: Het academisch geheugen (Amersfoort, 20 april 2011)
Predoctoral Fellowships, Max-Planck-Institut Berlin (Deadline 31 May 2011)