As of February 1, 2026, Sietske Fransen has been appointed professor by special appointment of Early Modern European Intellectual History, at the Faculty of Arts. This chair is financed by the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Stichting.

How do we capture the ever-changing nature of the sky? This research seminar examines the different strategies artists and scientists have used to visualize the terrestrial and celestial sky.

The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). You will work on the Italian subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative...

Interested in colonial history, botanical gardens and decolonisation? Join our international team of scholars!

Three Dutch microscopists, Regnier de Graaf, Johannes Swammerdam and Antoni van Leeuwenhoek all started corresponding with the Royal Society in London around 1670. Their letters were often accompanied by drawings and objects, thus devising inventive ways ...

Collections Assistant (Fixed Term) in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge.

Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) invites applications for 2 PhD positions within the NWO OC-L project IMAGES ON THE MOVE. Friendship Albums as Pictorial Networks in Early Moder...

In the Vox podcast In a Nutshell, hosts Jara Majerus and Antonia Leise take a deep dive into the university's most interesting, strange, and exciting research. Every two weeks, they invite Radboud res...

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Postdoctoral researcher Visualizing the Unknown - Huygens Instituut

This conference brings together almost five years of research from the Max Planck Research Group “Visualizing Science in Media Revolutions.” The Research Group has compared different scientific discip...

Nominations and self-nominations sought for position of Director at the MPIWG

In our first MicroLab we investigated bees. We did this for historical reasons explained below. But a first MicroLab, with for the first time our entire team