Past Events

Stevin Seminar: Theologians and Recalcitrant Horses. How Early-Modern Scholasticism Shaped 16th-Century Castilian Sales Law

Date: 4 February 2015

Time: 16:00-17:15

Location: VU, W&N Building F612

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Stevin seminar with Niels de Bruijn. Afterwards drinks in The Basket.

Stevin Seminar: Self-knowledge through numbers. Self-instructors in phrenology as self-tracking technologies, 1850-1900

Date: 3 December 2014

Time: 16:00-17:15

Location: VU, W&N Building, G076

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Stevin Seminar with Fenneke Sysling

Stevin Seminar: Troubled Waters, Clearing Skies: boundary disputes and the struggle for authority in 19th-century meteorology

Date: 5 November 2014

Time: 16:00-17:15

Location: VU, W&N Building, G076

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Stevin Seminar with Azadeh Achbari. Afterwards drinks in The Basket.

Stevin Seminar: Hoe kennis van China naar Europa kwam: de rol van jezuïeten en VOC-dienaren, ca. 1680-1795

Date: 1 October 2014

Time: 16:00-17:15

Location: VU, W&N Building, F612

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Stevin Seminar with Frasie Hertroijs. Afterwards drinks in the Basket.

Symposium on Rienk Vermij’s new book ‘De geest uit de fles: de Verlichting en het verval van de confessionele samenleving’

Date: 22 May 2014

Time: 15:30-17:00

Location: VU, W&N Building, G076

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RIENK VERMIJ will give an introduction. Then HENRI KROP (philosophy, EUR), WOUTER VERAART (philosphy of law, VU) and IDA STAMHUIS (history of exact-natural science, VU) will react, each from her/his expertise. Plenary discussion.

Opening Symposium Stevin Centre for History of Science and Humanities

Date: 18 March 2014

Time: 13:30-16:30

Location: VU Main Building, PThU-zaal

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Opening Symposium Stevin Centre for History of Science and Humanities