The Knowledge Management Education Hub

Communities

• History and Philosophy of Science Research Group (HPS) @ Freudenthal Institute
• Knowledge Practices Research Group @ Cultural History section, History and Art History Department

Seminars

Cultural History Seminar Series
(Organizer: Cultural History section, History and Art History Department)

Feb 2026: What is the place for oral history in the history of science and knowledge?

History of Knowledge Seminar Series @ Utrecht University
(Organizer: History and Philosophy of Science Research Group, Freudenthal Institute; Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences)

Talks:
Oct 2023: tba

Jun 2023: Reluctant Knowledge Actors: Art Education Reforms and the Studio Glass Movement
May 2023: “Modernization in China” project
Apr 2023: How We Know Nothing about a Historical Photograph
Mar 2023:
Feb 2023: Experimental Knowledge
Jan 2023: CANCELLED

Dec 2022: Talk Title n.a.
Nov 2022: The Function of Fakes. Boineburg’s Lost Book on the Political Role of Falsehood
Oct 2022: Measuring Knowledge and Measuring Discrimination: Entangled Histories
Sep 2022: POSTPONED
Jun 2022: POSTPONED
May 2022: Tools of Knowledge: Challenging Ontologies
Mar 2022: Moderation and Modernity: A Dietary History
Feb 2022: Decolonise Mosquitoes
Jan 2022: The Disappearance of Leo Africanus

Dec 2021: Visualizing the Unknown: Visual Studies and Re-Enactment
Nov 2021: Vernacular Medicine and “Agents of Knowledge” in Late Seventeenth-Century London
Oct 2021: Why We Need a Polycentric Approach to the History of Knowledge
Sep 2021: Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America
Jun 2021: Bureaucracy as Knowledge
Apr 2021: Circulation, Arenas, and the Quest for Public Knowledge
Mar 2021: Contours of a History of the Theory and Art of Perception (CANCELLED)

Nov 2020: Against Revolutions
Sep 2020: ‘Local Knowledge(s)’
May 2020: From the History of Science to the History of Knowledge – and Back (POSTPONED)
Mar 2020: Knowledge Has Its Own Rules – And They Have a History

Symposia:
May 2021: Debating New Approaches to Histories of the Sciences

Presentations (w. Response)
Historical Epistemology, Then and Now
Emancipating the History of Knowledge
Integrated HPS as a Form of History
For a Global History of Science: New Playing Field, New Goal Posts, New Rules…and an Example
Dynamics of Reason

Plenary discussions (2)

Pre-conference Workshop:
The Magic of the Marketplace: The True History of a False Idea

Feb 2021: Rethinking History in the Anthropocene

Keynotes:
The Anthropocene and the History of Science
Scientists and Science Studies in the Anthropocene

Presentations:
Is There Such a Thing as Anthropocenic Historical Knowledge?
The ‘Now’ and the ‘Instant’ in Earth History
Chinese Trace Fossils in the Anthropocene: The Grand Canal of 2,500 Years
Are We Situated Near History’s End or Its Beginning?: How Discovering the Deep Past Unveiled Humanity’s Deep Future
But Which Earth? The History of Earth-Images as Iconography of the Anthropocene
Beyond Resistance and Resignation: Understanding Environmentalism in Sub-Saharan Africa
Living With Animals: Heini Hediger, History and the Anthropocene
Of Songs and Fish

Conferences

• 3rd History of Knowledge Conference 2027, 25–27 August 2027, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Conference Theme: Decentering the History of Knowledge
• Forgetting Knowledge Working Group Workshop 2018, February 28 – March 2, 2018, Berlin, Germany
  (Organizer: Department of Knowledge Systems and Collective Life, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science; Co-organizer: The Descartes Center (Utrecht University), The Vossius Center (University of Amsterdam), Huygens ING (Amsterdam))
  Keynotes:
  Steps Towards an Ecology of Dis-regard

  Working Groups’ Sessions:
  Materialization of Forgetting
  Dimensions of Forgetting Knowledge
  Dynamics of Forgetting
  Epistemologies of Forgetting

  Discussions:
  Future Cooperations
  Planned Publications

Graduate Degrees/Programs

• Master of Science in Information Science (Specialization: Content and Knowledge Engineering)**
  2009-2010
  Mandatory courses:
  Use of Content and Knowledge Systems
  Development of Knowledge Systems
  Content Design

  Optional courses (select 7):
  … Knowledge Management …

  Thesis Project

  2003-2009
  Mandatory courses:
  Knowledge Management
  Use of Content and Knowledge Systems
  Development of Knowledge Systems
  Content Design

  Optional courses (select 6):
  …

  Thesis Project

  2003
  Core courses (mandatory)
  Development of Personalized Content
  Use of Dynamic Content
  Development of Knowledge Systems
  Use of Knowledge Systems
  Development of Content for Organizations
  Use of Content for Organizations

  Optional courses (select 4):
  …

  Literature Study

  Thesis project

Conferences

• 21st European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS 2013), June 5-8, 2013, Utrecht University, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  Conference Theme: Beyond Borders
  TRACK: Business Intelligence and Knowledge Management

• 16th JURIX International Conference on Legal Knowledge and Information Systems (JURIX Conference 2003), December 11-12, 2003, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  (Host: Faculty of Law & Institute of Information and Computing Sciences; Organizer: Foundation for Legal Knowledge Based Systems (JURIX))