Seminar with prof. Rienk Vermij (University of Oklahoma) about his new book ‘Thinking on Earthquakes in Early Modern Europe: Firm Beliefs on Shaky Ground’.

Speaker: Marije Martijn, Professor of Ancient and Patristic Philosophy

Program
Welcome by Olga Lizzini (chair)
Lecture by Marije Martijn
Discussion

Speakers
Chris Engberts (Utrecht University), “What Makes a Good Professor? Letters of Recommendation in Late-Nineteenth-Century Germany”
Sjang ten Hagen (University of Amsterdam), “Practices of Exactitude in Nineteenth-century Physics and Historiography”

Tijdens de workshop worden verschillende governancemodellen in het hoger onderwijs, waaronder benaderingen geïnspireerd door New Public Management, geduid en bediscussieerd.

Martin J.S. Rudwick (professor emeritus at the University of California, San Diego) will give the lecture “From Natural History to the History of Nature” hosted by the Vossius Center (UvA) and the Stevin Centre (VU).

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.

Stevin seminar [in Dutch]
Spreker: Hans Fidom, hoogleraar orgelkunde aan de Vrije Universiteit

Tweedaags congres met als doel reflectie op geschiedenis en toekomst van universiteitscampussen, in het bijzonder de VU-campus en haar relatie tot de Zuidas. Dag 1: Historisch perspectief: Naoorlogse campusontwikkeling in Nederland. Dag 2: Brains, buildings, business: de Vrije Universiteit en de Zuidas.

Speakers:
Wouter de Vries (History VU), ‘Imagining Earth: Image and idea in the historical study of the earth’
Margaret Meredith (History of Science VU), ‘Writing the Natural History of North American Quadrupeds: A History of American and European Cooperation in Natural Historical Inquiry, 1760-1815’

Stevin seminar [in Dutch]
Spreker: Freek Colombijn

All speakers at the symposium are historians who have worked closely with Ida on one of several projects or activities, ranging from gender in science, early genetics and the history of statistics to the Journal Centaurus and the Stevin Centre.

Speaker: Marije Martijn, Ype de Boer, Cor Zonneveld, P.J. Roggeband, Olga Lizzini

Speaker: Geert Somsen, Historian of science at the University of Maastricht
Commentator: Ronald Kroeze, Polical historian Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Speaker: Danny Beckers
Commentator: Gerard Alberts

Lecturers: Ellen Prokop and Martijn van Beek
Commentator: Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis

[In Dutch} Drie CLUE+ centra op historisch gebied – ACRH, ACCESS en Stevin – organiseren een gezamenlijke bijeenkomst. Het thema laat zich raden, want deze centra houden zich bezig met religiegeschiedenis, emotiegeschiedenis en wetenschapsgeschiedenis.

Speaker: Theodore Porter, professor of history at the University of California in Los Angeles (UCLA)

In cooperation with the VU Environmental Humanities Centre, this event explores climate change from a humanities perspective. Silvia De Bianchi (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona) discusses eighteenth-century philosophical views of climate in her lecture “Understanding and Controlling Climate: The development of climatology and its importance for philosophy in the 18th century.”

Lecturer: Massimiliano Badino, MIT and at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona.

Lecturer: Mònica Balltondre, Associate Professor of History of Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

Lecturer: Matteo Realdi (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the Centre for the History and Social Aspects of Science of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)

Two-day conference devoted to the work of Simon Stevin.

[In Dutch:] Programma
16.00-16.30u: presentatie Daantje Meuwissen
16.30-16.40: commentaar Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis
16.40-17.15: plenaire discussie

[In Dutch:]
Spreker: Prof. mr. C.J.H. Jansen, Radboud Universiteit

[In Dutch:] Programma
15.30-16.15: presentatie Maarten Derksen
16.15-16.35: co-referaat Ivo van Hilvoorde
16.35-17.00: plenaire discussie

[In Dutch: ] Spreker: Hans de Waardt

[In Dutch:]
Speaker: Ben Peperkamp

Speaker: Fokko Jan Dijksterhuis

Program
15:45 – 16:10 Raf de Bont – Stations in the Field: A History of Place-Based Animal Research, 1870-1930
16:10 – 16:35 Marcel Boumans – Science outside the Laboratory: Measurement in Field Science and Economics
16:35 – 16:50 Debate between the authors
17:50 – 17:15 General discussion with the audience

Frans van Lunteren on Machines as Metaphors

Stevin Seminar / Graduate Lecture Benjamin Schmidt

Lecturer: Dr. David Ludwig

Discussiemiddag met wetenschapshistoricus David Baneke over zijn nieuwe boek De ontdekkers van de hemel. De Nederlandse sterrenkunde in de twintigste eeuw.

Stevin seminar with Wouter Goris, professor of the history of ancient, patristic and medieval philosophy at the Vrije Universiteit

Met Gijsbert van den Brink, URC-hoogleraar Theologie en wetenschap aan de Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid.