HPS Talks Utrecht

HPS Seminar: Classic microhistory, in memory of Carlo Ginzburg (1939–2026)

Tuesday 13 October 2026 · 15:00–16:45 · BBG 007

Daan Wegener, Miquel Mollá García, Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar, Federica Russo

Reading: C. Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller ([1976] Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Contact: F.D.A.Wegener@uu.nl

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HPS Seminar: A manifesto

Tuesday 10 November 2026 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: I. Stengers, Another Science is Possible: A Manifesto for Slow Science (Polity 2018)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.

HPS Seminar: Foucault

Friday 20 November 2026 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: M. Foucault, The Birth of the Clinic: An Archeology of Medical Perception ([1963] Tavistock Publications 1973)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable. Snacks and refreshments provided.

HPS Seminar: Something different, something new

Tuesday 8 December 2026 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: D. Frankfurter, Magic, Charisma and Violence in Late Antiquity: Essays in Religion (Edinburgh University Press 2026)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.

HPS Seminar: Dilemmas of modernity

Tuesday 12 January 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: A.N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World ([1925] Free Press 2010): chapters 1–6 (pp. 1–141)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.

HPS Seminar: Dilemmas of modernity (cont.)

Friday 22 January 2027 · 15:00–16:45 · BBG 0.69, Princetonplein 5

Reading: A.N. Whitehead, Science and the Modern World ([1925] Free Press 2010): chapters 7–13 (pp. 142–260)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Snacks and refreshments provided. Also listed in F.A. Muller's Research Seminar Philosophy of Physics (which gives 15:15–17:00). Without a UU access pass, enter the BBG via the Minnaert Building.

HPS Seminar: Mythologies of menopause

Tuesday 9 February 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: M. Lock, Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America (University of California Press 1993)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.

HPS Seminar: Complexity and models

Tuesday 9 March 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Federica Russo

Reading: Readings t.b.a.

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.

HPS Seminar: Human-animal relations, labwork (and fieldwork)

Friday 19 March 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: R.E. Kohler, Lords of the Fly: Drosophila Genetics and the Experimental Life (University of Chicago Press 1994)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable. Snacks and refreshments provided.

HPS Seminar: Histories of scholarship

Tuesday 13 April 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: A. Grafton, Defenders of the Text: The Traditions of Scholarship in an Age of Science, 1450–1800 (Harvard University Press 1991)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.

HPS Seminar: Cross Roads

Tuesday 11 May 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: N.I. Bukharin, Science at the Cross Roads (Kniga 1931): selected papers (N.I. Bukharin, M. Rubinstein, B. Hessen)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.

HPS Seminar: Boundary work

Friday 21 May 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: M. Gordin, The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the Birth of the Modern Fringe (University of Chicago Press 2012)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable. Snacks and refreshments provided.

HPS Seminar: Poetry session, in memory of Lieke Marsman (1990–2026)

Tuesday 8 June 2027 · 15:00–16:45

Reading: L. Marsman, Op een andere planeet kunnen ze mij redden (Pluim 2025); in English: On Another Planet They Can Save Me, translated by Sophie Collins (Catapult 2026)

HPS Seminar (coordinated by Daan Wegener and Antonio Ferreiro de Aguiar). Participants read the text in advance and send their reading notes a day before. In person only. Room: see MyTimetable.