Welcome to the Dutch History of Science Web Centre
The Dutch History of Science Web Centre (DWC) aims to act as a portal for researchers, students and others with a serious interest in the history of Dutch science from earliest times down to the present day.
Here, you will find news items, a calendar of events, publications, biographies and various interesting web links. The DWC is and will remain work in progress, and in due course several new functionalities wil be added. This English-language website is a reduced version of the Dutch Digitaal Wetenschapshistorisch Centrum.
This web site is an initiative of the Huygens Institute of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Information about the upcoming Woudschoten Conference for the history of science in the Netherlands can be found here.
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Call for contributions: Book project Student Revolt, City and Society – From the Middle Ages until Today (Deadline: 1 April 2012)
Student Revolt, City and Society – From the Middle Ages until Today. Book project of the International Commission for the History of Universities – Commission Internationale pour l’Histoire des Universités Lees verder…
A certain universalism is an inherent prerequisite for the identity of a university. Most early universities were founded in the centre of medium size and often wealthy towns. The university created, as a self-sufficient community, a corporate identity, with academic ceremonies and symbols, an academic self-awareness and intellectual self-esteem compared to other townspeople, in particular the middle classes, and the peasantry.
Within university towns, general or liberal education, vocational training and scientific schooling can be considered the classical tasks of a university education, although the balance between these three aspects greatly differed in time and place. Sometimes explicitly, mostly implicitly, general education also included the creation of a critical mind. The training of the students into critically thinking individuals only seldom was an explicit aim of the university, yet it certainly was a regularly noticed side effect of a university education.
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Third circular and programme for Woudschoten Conference (17-18 June, Woudschoten)
GEWINA and Huygens ING invite you all to take part in the Fourth Woudschoten conference, which is to take place on Friday 17 and Saturday 18 June at Woudschoten.
The third circular and programme are now available. Please note that early (read: less pricey) registration will end on June 10, 2011. If you haven’t registered yet, please use the form at http://www.dwc.knaw.nl/woudschoten4.
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CfP: Transnational History of Museums (Berlin, 17-18 Feb 2012; Deadline 15 June 2011)
Temple of muses, custodian of cultural heritage, site of memory, space for the mediation of taste and knowledge: The functions of the museum are manifold and are given different emphases, depending on the type of museum and the disciplinary outlook. However, the argument that the institution is a major venue for the construction of national identity has recurred again and again since the first royal collections were opened to the public around the middle of the eighteenth century. Indeed, the number of museum foundations was particularly high in Europe during the nineteenth century, when the modern nation-state was being established. Yet the tight linkage between nation-building and the birth of public collections has increasingly been called into question by recent scholarly work on the history of museums. Instead, local traditions have been stressed or international comparisons have been drawn upon in order to explain policies of collecting, the display of exhibits or the architectural design of individual galleries.
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Call for Papers: Hevelius 2011: An international conference to mark the quadricentennial of the birth of Johannes Hevelius (15–18 September 2011, Gdańsk, Poland; Deadline 30 April 2011)
The conference Hevelius 2011 will be held from 15 to 18 of September, 2011 in Gdańsk, Poland. This meeting will bring together historians, historians of art, historians of science, historians of technology, and researchers who work on different aspects of Hevelius’ life and work. The aim of the conference is to encourage Hevelius scholarship and to show his achievements in the broader seventeenth-century European contexts.
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Conference: Academic Culture of Remembrance (Ghent, March 16 and 17, 2011)
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A Conference on the triangular relationship between scientific research, academic heritage and university cultures of remembrance.
The aim of this two-day conference is to discuss the triangular relationship between scientific research, the opening up of academic heritage and the creation of a culture of remembrance. Two series of questions are at the centre of this symposium.
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Ph.D. Workshop: Biology and the Publlc: Participation and Exclusion from the Renaissance to the Present Day. The Twelfth Ischia Summer School on the History of the Life Science ‘Villa Dohrn’ (Ischia, Italy, 26 Jun – 3 Jul 2011; deadline 31 Jan 2011)
Applications are invited for this week-long summer school, which provides advanced training in history of the life sciences through lectures and seminars in a historically rich and naturally beautiful setting. The theme for 2011 is Biology and the Publlc: Participation and Exclusion from the Renaissance to the Present Day. The faculty are Antonio Barrera, Mary Terrall, Anne Secord, Jim Secord, Christina Wessely, Philipp Sarasin, Tim Boon, Ilana Löwy, Carlos López Beltrán, Massimiano Bucchi and Staffan Müller-Wille. Further information follows.
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Call for Papers: Fourth Woudschoten Conference, ‘Locations of Knowledge’, 17-18 June 2011 (deadline 31 Dec 2010)
The Dutch Society for the History of Science GEWINA announces its fourth bi-annual conference, and invites speakers to submit an abstract to present their paper.
Previous Woudschoten conferences were devoted to themes such as ‘Circulation of Knowledge in the Netherlands’ and ‘Dutch Science-World Science’; this fourth conference will be dedicated to ‘Locations of Knowledge’.
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Call for Papers: Renewing the Heritage of Chemistry in the 21st Century: Conversations on the Preservation, Presentation and Utilization of Sources, Sites and Artefacts (Paris, 21-24 jun 2011; deadline 15 feb 2011)
We invite all those interested in the heritage of chemistry in the 20th and 21st centuries, including historians, chemists, archivists, museum curators, librarians, and industrial archaeologists, to join us in Paris on 21-24 June 2011 for a symposium involving conversations among experts from many different perspectives. Our intention is to present not only the views of historians on how best to use the sources, sites and artefacts of chemistry in the contemporary era, but also the views of those concerned with the technical problems related to the preservation and presentation to historians and the general public of those sources, sites, and artefacts. To this end we invite interested colleagues to submit proposals for papers that can be presented at one of several sessions in the symposium. Submissions may pertain to a wide range of topics and may address any of the questions outlined in the following circular.
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