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Dit zat gisteren in onze brievenbus. Bedankt aan Gewina, Wonderkamer en Ad Maas voor de kans om de nieuwe Bestor toe te lichten! En lees zeker ook de andere mooie bijdragen in Wonderkamer 12 - over middeleeuwse ideeëngeschiedenis, het kan niet altijd over het internet gaan.
02.12.2025 10:02 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Hoe Georges Lemaître in een volgens Albert Einstein abominabel artikel als eerste benoemt dat we in een uitdijend heelal leven.
Lees hier een voorproefje van het nieuwe boek van Yannick Fritschy:
www.newscientist.nl/blogs/een-vo...
What better way to end the year than with a workshop on Gender, Religion, and the Production of Knowledge in the Early Modern Period?
Register now: bit.ly/3KszdN0
The gargantuan Congo Panorama, unveiled at the 1913 Ghent World Exhibition, might be the biggest painting ever made. But it was a lie, meant to show visitors that the Belgian colonisers were friendly and peaceful - as a new AfricaMuseum exhibition reveals:
www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1855...
"Plots herkende ik het handschrift": professor Koenraad Van Cleempoel (UHasselt) ontdekt bij toeval verloren gewaand manuscript van Mercator in klooster in Spanje 🇪🇸
vrtnws.be/p.mRayweMO7
On Thursday 27 November (14:00–16:00), Anse De Weerdt will defend her PhD dissertation titled 'The Politics of Light: Colonial Power, Knowledge Transmission, and The Magic Lantern in Belgium (1885–1945)' in Brussels.
The entrance is free, but register by sending an email to anse.de.weerdt@ulb.be
Nominations are open for the BSHS Pickstone Prize 2026, recognising the best scholarly English-language book in the history of science.
📆 Deadline: 31 Jan 2026.
Anyone may nominate (self-nominations welcome).
Submit via our online form on the BSHS website www.bshs.org.uk/the-bshs-pic...
Pleased to announce that this week the Michel Serres theme issue of Wijsgerig Perspectief will be published, with contributions from @masssimons.bsky.social, René ten Bos, Maria Karssenberg and myself.
26.11.2025 07:27 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Who was Ferdinand Gonseth? If you want Ties van Gemert and me talk about this half-forgotten Swiss philosopher of science and what role he played in 20C #philsci, you can join online!
This Wednesday!
sigma.mathsworlds.org/activities/s...
Professor Storms will speak about the (history of) research integrity, with a particular focus on scientific fraud. He will address not only spectacular cases that make the media, but also the “questionable research practices”: seemingly more “innocent” and everyday violations of integrity.
20.11.2025 11:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
We are exceptionally pleased to welcome Professor Gert Storms (KU Leuven, Faculty of Psychology) as keynote speaker at the ninth Young Researchers Days in Logic, Philosophy and History of Science.
📅 December 15, 16:30–18:00
📍 Aula Emma Vorlat, KU Leuven
Register here: lnkd.in/eZdkhM7C
Conférence sur les sciences, la place de l'épistémologie et "le combat pour la science" dans notre société actuelle. Donnée par la mathématicienne et philosophe des sciences Laurence Bouquiaux à Liège, organisée par Académie royale.
📅09/12 - 18u30
📍Liège - Le Bocholtz
👉https://bit.ly/48gqbMd
Poster advertising the event
Online lecture, open to all: 2 Dec 18:30 (GMT)
Renée Bergland on her book 'Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science'
Winner of @bshsnews.bsky.social Hughes Prize, for the best #histSTM book accessible to a broad audience
www.bshs.org.uk/online-lectu...
Read more on Bestor:
FR: bit.ly/4hZw1oo
NL: bit.ly/4i0dLey
On 16 November 1935, Emile Francqui passed away. Few people have left such a significant mark on Belgian science. In the interwar period, he built an extensive network including the royal palace and established various scientific and financial organizations. In 1928, he helped found the FNRS.
17.11.2025 11:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Twee van Descartes' schematische tekeningen van aardlagen.
Descartes woonde in Amsterdam toen hij rond 1630 zijn eigen theorie formuleerde over het ontstaan van een Aarde. Hij kende de manuscripten van Stevin bovendien. De Franse filosoof schetste schematisch hoe een planeet met aardlagen kon ontstaan. 8/9
16.11.2025 19:09 — 👍 22 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 1
(Journée d'étude) Les hallucinations : histoire et perspectives histoiresante.blogspot.com/2025/11/les-... #histSTM
13.11.2025 13:22 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Een nieuwe blogtekst van Christiaan Engberts over 600 jaar KU Leuven! 📜🌎
Met deze keer: een Bijbels Museum, een Heilig Land, een katholieke tussenpersoon in Palestina en een verrassende kelder. 📖
▶️ cultuurgeschiedenis.be/het-heilige-...
In November 1915, the “emergency university” of Amersfoort closed — a Dutch university created for Belgian refugees during WO I. Its classes offered not just education, but also served a moral purpose and had to maintain a lasting bond with home.
NL: bit.ly/49bm3OB
FR: bit.ly/47TOgam
Book cover of "Student Notes from Latin Europe (1400–1750): A Research Companion," edited by Xander Feys, Maxime Maleux, Andy Peetermans, and Raf Van Rooy. Published by Leuven University Press. The cover features a partial diagram of concentric celestial spheres and an anatomical drawing of a human head labeled with Latin terms for sensory faculties. The design is minimalist in beige and gray tones. There is also an open access logo and the logo of Lueven University Press in the bottom left corner.
In the new #openaccess companion on student notes from Latin Europe (@leuvenup.bsky.social), our own Lorenz Demey, together with collaborators, contributes a chapter arguing that student notes hold great promise as sources for intellectual #history 👇 lup.be/book/student... #HPS #earlymodern #philsky
09.11.2025 18:39 — 👍 48 🔁 20 💬 1 📌 0
For the next two days, I will be at 'The human phenomenon. Plessner's crossroads' conference in Cologne, talking about Helmuth Plessner's reception history in Dutch philosophy of technology and science #hopot #hopos #philsci #philtech philevents.org/event/show/1...
06.11.2025 05:44 — 👍 18 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The botanical garden of Meise is hosting an exhibition on Belgian biologist Jean Massart, a pioneer of nature preservation, and his photography. Long before the word “ecology” existed, he captured our natural world with his camera.
More information via the link below! 👇
bit.ly/4oLxbWI
The journal History of Humanities invites proposals for Special Issues aka Theme Issues. A Theme can comprise, for instance, 8-10 papers of 10,000 words each, by different authors on a coherent theme of current interest in history of the humanities.
See: www.journals.uchicago.edu/journals/hoh...
[NL] ✨Enkele weken opende de tijdelijke tentoonstelling FLIGHT geopend in het Koninklijk Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen!
[FR]✨Il y a quelques semaines, l'exposition FLIGHT temporaire a ouvert ses portes à l'Institut royal des Sciences naturelles !
@naturalsciences-be.bsky.social
Pour bien commencer la semaine, voici la vidéo de l'intervention de Nathalie Grandjean, PhD, philosophe de l' #UCLouvain - Université catholique de Louvain sur l'Intelligence artificielle et ses rapports avec la médecine
youtu.be/Ks3TryfHaZw #IA #AI #medsky 👩🔬
Who was Katharine Way, and how was she involved with John A. Wheeler and nuclear physics? In today's post, Stefano Furlan tells us about an unknown nuclear physicist with a large impact on others. Read it on the blog: www.shellsandpebbles.com/2025/10/22/t...
22.10.2025 09:53 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0CFP: Ethical regimes. Doctors, patients and ethics in colonial and postcolonial medicine
https://www.hsozkult.de/event/id/event-158042
Leiden, 22.01.2026-23.01.2026, Fenneke Sysling; Caroline Schep, Leiden University, Bewerbungsschluss: 01.11.2025
Proposal deadline: 16 January 2026
Woudschoten conference: 19-20 June 2026
Contact: gewina.woudschoten@uu.nl
Full call: bit.ly/4oh9h5M
Call for papers!
The times, they are a-changin’. But is research changing with them? At the 11th Gewina Woudschoten Conference, Gewina will investigate how daily research routines are affected by shifting world orders, environmental disasters, pandemics, wars and other types of fun.
More info 👇
A century ago, Irène Van Der Bracht (1891-1941) became the first female professor in Belgium, at the University of Ghent.
Read more about this pioneer on Bestor:
NL: bit.ly/4oEh51c
FR: bit.ly/4302wNf
