All welcome at the Low Countries History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research | School of Advanced Study University of London Join us for a talk by Thijs Weststeijn on The Dutch Global Age: Worldly Images and Images of the World in Netherlandish Art This session is free to attend, but advance registration is required. Details about how to…

Between January 10-21, 2024, Benjamin Schmid will be visiting the Department of Art History. Jon Bridgman Endowed Professor in History at the University of Washington, Seattle, his work sits at the disciplinary crossroads of cultural history, visual and material studies, and the history of science; and concerns itself chiefly with Europe’s engagement with the world…

In 2023-2024 we will be joined by Hu Hanhan 胡涵菡 as a guest researcher. Her main affiliation is he National Institute for Advanced Humanistic Studies, Fudan University, Shanghai. Her project is entitled A Study on Canton Famille Rose Porcelain from a Global Perspective (1720-1840). Canton famille rose porcelain is a kind of glazed porcelain, which…

The Cultural Dimensions of Dutch Overseas Expansion (Jaarboek Zeventiende Eeuw) On the basis of our conference of August 2021 , the Jaarboek Zeventiende Eeuw has sent out a Call for Papers (deadline March 1, 2022): CfP Jaarboek: De culturele dimensie van de Nederlandse expansie overzee

Dr.Trude Dijkstra, former member of the Chinese Impact team, has been awarded the Niels Stensen Fellowship for her project: Between Mercantilism and Materia Medica: Printing and Publishing Chinese Medicine in Early Modern Europe, to be carried out at The Warburg Institute Library, London.

Marolijn  Bol has been awarded an ERC Starting Grant for her project Dynamics of the Durable: A History of Making Things Last in the Visual and Decorative Arts (DURARE). It is the first synthetic study of the impact of these ambitions for durability on the long-term development of European art traditions. It provides a break-through…