Knowledge Notes

Occasional notes on calls, events, publications, and more that caught our attention. Please email us your own items.

Grants

Gerda Henkel Tandem Fellowships for the Global History of Ideas (Forschungszentrum Gotha der Univ. Erfurt) – Deadline: 31 July 2024 Thanks to the Gerda Henkel Foundation, the Gotha Research Centre at the University of Erfurt is awarding grants beginning on January 1, 2025, and ending on December 13, 2025. With a concentration on collaborative academic work, researchers will explore global intellectual history, addressing questions of global interrelationships and transfers between bodies of knowledge.

Scholar in Residence Programm (Deutsches Museum München) – Deadline: 15 October 2024. Among its scholarship programs for the year 2025, the Deutsches Museum in Munich is offering a Scholar in Residence Program. As part of this program, visiting scholars will have daily contact with the museum’s curators, archivists, and librarians while also working with members of the Munich Center for the History of Science and Technology. Invited to base their projects on the collections of the Deutsches Museum, the program will last from January 1, 2025, until December 31, 2025.

The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), part of the internationally recognized Max Planck Society (MPG), is offering journalists worldwide a scholarship for a guest stay at, and access to, the research institute’s resources and researchers. The journalists-in-residence are expected to work on a topic of their choice related to the history of science or a similar discipline.

Jobs

Researcher position “Materi-A-Net” (Universität zu Köln) – Deadline: 31 August 2024 
The “Materie-A-Net” project at the University of Cologne is looking for a candidate to fill a doctoral position. Applicants should have a distinguished university degree in art history or history, especially with a focus on cultural or scientific history of the early modern period. Contact: Prof. Dr. Aleksandra Lipińska

2 Postdoctoral scholars (MPIWG, Berlin) – Deadline 15 July 2024. The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG) is seeking two postdoctoral scholars to work in the Department “Artifacts, Action, Knowledge” for three years with an employment contract. The Department “Artifacts, Action, Knowledge” focuses on the history of knowledge and action, especially considering the changing roles of artifacts, such as texts, objects, and spaces. The earliest start date is October 1, 2024.

Projects

German Research Foundation-funded project “Wissensgeschichten des unverfügbaren Selbst” will continue through December 31, 2026. The network is researching a figure of thought significant for the history of psychology.

Events

Online conference: Wissensgeschichte(n) – Deadline for abstracts: 01 August 2024. How can one write a history of knowledge? The Editorial Board of Campus Historiae invites all interested parties to participate in the annual conference “Wissensgeschite(n)” on the history, or histories, of knowledge. The conference will take place online on September 13, 2024. Contributions from students are also welcome.

Workshop: WissensWelten, Univ. Erfurt – 19 September 2024 – 21 September 2024. At the University of Erfurt, the group “Early Modern Period” will be hosting their 15th workshop focusing on the different aspects of the history of knowledge, including a look at the curatorial work done at the Gotha Research Library and the Friedenstein Stiftung Gotha.

Conference: Pre / Post – 26 March 2025 – 28 March 2025, Uni Bonn; Deadline: 31 July 2024. “Pre / Post,” the annual conference of the working group Auditory Culture & Sound Studies of the Society for Media Studies (GfM), will take place at the Department of Musicology / Sound Studies at the University of Bonn. The conference will approach the terms “Pre / Post” from the perspective of the history of knowledge and science, as well as from the perspective of media practice.

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This list was compiled by current intern Paulina Leder at the German Historical Institute Washington. The featured image is Rand McNally’s new globe from 1887, available through Wikimedia Commons and the Library of Congress, digital ID g3201b.ct001417

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