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Koen Vermeir is a CNRS Research Professor (CR1). As a historian and philosopher, he has contributed to a wide array of fields. His main interests are in the history of the early modern imagination and in the interaction between religion and technology. Additionally, he works on methodological topics and on science policy and science advice.
After studies in theoretical physics, philosophy and history of science, in Leuven, Utrecht and Cambridge, he held research positions at the Fund of Scientific Research-Flanders, the Max-Planck-Institute for the History of Science, Harvard University, and Harvard’s Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies. Vermeir was visiting fellow at Cambridge University and Cornell University, and visiting professor at the ETH Zürich.
Vermeir is founder of and responsible for the research unit Histoire culturelle et interdisciplinaire des techniques (SPHERE) ; co-responsible for the research unit Recherches interdisciplinaires en histoire et philosophe des sciences (SPHERE) ; and former founding director of LIPSS, a science studies platform at the University of Leuven (Belgium). He is currently member of the editorial board of the journal *Journal for Early Modern Studies*, the journal *Society and Politics* , the journal *Artefact : Histoire & techniques*, and the book series *Studies in History and Philosophy of Science* and *International Archives of the History of Ideas*. His work has been published in six different languages.
Koen Vermeir is a member of the [Global Young Academy](https://globalyoungacademy.net/koen-vermeir/). In this context, he is leading a working group on practices of Research Evaluation, and is working on *Open Science*, *Science Advice*, and the history of Scientific Academies. He represents the GYA at various conferences and policy meetings and is actively engaged in science advice.
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Knowledge and Imagination: Questions and PerspectivesThe Janus Face of the Early Modern Imagination, Sep 2016, Bucarest, Romania
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Optical Instruments in the Service of God: Light metaphors for the circulation of Jesuit knowledge in China4th International Conference of the ESHS, 2011, Barcelona, Spain. pp.333-337
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Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon"Magnetic Theology as a Baroque Phenomenon." for the Baroque Science Conference, Feb 2008, Sydney, Australia
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PrefaceOverlap – The no man’s land between art and science, 2020
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Introduction. La culture du spectacle en Italie et anciens Pays-BasCultures du spectacle baroque. Cadres, expériences et représentations des solennités religieuses entre Italie et anciens Pays-Bas, 2019
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Performing Emotions at the Canonization of Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier in the Southern Low CountriesChanging Hearts, Brill, pp.187-210, 2018, ⟨10.1163/9789004385191_010⟩
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Regards croisés sur le livre et les techniques avant le XXe siècleHilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Nègre, Valérie and Spicq, Delphine and Vermeir, Koen. Le livre technique avant le XXe siècle. À l'échelle du monde, CNRS éditions, pp.5--40, 2017
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Historicizing Culture: A Revaluation of Early Modern Science and CultureChemla, Karine and Fox Keller, Evelyn. Cultures without Culturalism, Duke University Press, pp.227--249, 2017
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Een filosofisch onderzoek naar de wetenschap van het gevoelColette, Maarten and De Hert, Paul and Kinneging, Andreas. Edmund Burke, ASP Editions, pp.211--246, 2017
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Avant ProposHilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Nègre, Valérie and Spicq, Delphine and Vermeir, Koen. Le livre technique avant le XXe siècle. À l'échelle du monde, CNRS éditions, pp.3--4, 2017
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Artes notariae et formulaires notariaux : les techniques de l'écriture des actes dans la seconde moitié du XVe siècle en NormandieLe livre technique avant le XXe siècle à l’échelle du monde, CNRS éditions, pp.367-380, 2017, CNRS Alpha, 978-2-271-08655-6
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L'analogie, les techniques et les savoirs. Approches cognitives et historiquesde Beaune, Sophie A. and Hilaire‐Pérez, Liliane and Vermeir, Koen. L'analogie dans les techniques, CNRS éditions, pp.8--56, 2017
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« L’analogie, les techniques et les savoirs. Approches cognitives et historiques »L'analogie et les techniques. Approches interdisciplinaires, pp.7-56, 2017
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Techniques et religionHilaire-Pérez, Liliane and Simon, Fabien and Thébaud-Sorger, Marie. Un dialogue des savoirs. Les sciences et les techniques en Europe, xve-xviiie siècles, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.487--494, 2016
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Early Modern Ideas of Space and SpatialityVermeir, Koen and Regier, Jonathan. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations. Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer, pp.vii -- xi, 2016
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La reconstitution des sciences et des techniquesHilaire-Pérez, Liliane and Simon, Fabien and Thébaud-Sorger, Marie. L'Europe des sciences et des techniques. Un dialogue des savoirs, xve-xviiie siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.55--59, 2016
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Techniques, infrastructures globales et acteurs transnationauxPérez, Liliane and Zakharova, Larissa. Les Techniques et la globalisation au XXe siècle, Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp.269--279, 2016
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Die Wiederherstellung von Pluto. Theatralität in frühneuzeitlichen alchemistischen PraxisSchramm, H. and Schwarte, L. and Lorber, M. Spuren der Avantgarde: Theatrum alchemicum, De Gruyter, pp.112--153, 2016
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Techniques, rites, religionCarnino, Guillaume and Hilaire-Pérez, Liliane and Kobiljski, Aleksandra. Histoire des techniques. Mondes, sociétés, cultures XVIe-XVIIIe siècle, Presses universitaires de France, pp.397--414, 2016
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La spectacularité baroque dans les anciens Pays-Bas: Moyens et finsBossu, Charles and Bracke, Wouter and Jacob, Alain and Lambeau, Sara and Leporati, Chiara. Alla Luce di Roma. I Disegni Scenografici di Scultori Fiamminghi e il Barocco Romano, De Luca Editori d'arte, pp.1--12, 2016
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Boundaries, Extents and Circulations: An Introduction to Spatiality and the Early Modern Concept of SpaceVermeir, Koen and Regier, Jonathan. Boundaries, Extents and Circulations. Space and Spatiality in Early Modern Natural Philosophy, Springer, pp.1--32, 2016, 978-3-319-41074-6. ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-41075-3⟩
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Guérir ceux qui ont la foi. Le mesmérisme et l'imagination historiqueBelhoste, Bruno and Edelman, Nicole. Le Mesmérisme en Contexte, Omniscience, pp.119--145; 283--290, 2015, 978-2-916097-57-2
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Religion, technology and the arts in the early modern periodMPIWG Research Report, 2013/2014, 2015
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Tout dépend des circonstances. Superstition, lois de la nature et dissolution du préternaturel au tournant du XVIIIe siècleChristin, Olivier and Flückiger, Fabrice and Ghermani, Naima. Marie mondialisée: L'Atlas Marianus de Wilhelm Gumppenberg et les topographies sacrées de l'époque moderne, Éditions Alphil-Presses universitaires suisses, pp.47--62, 2014
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Bio-bibliographical Note: Balthasar BekkerDobre, Mihnea and Nyden, Tammy. Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer, pp.307--308, 2013
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Mechanical Philosophy in an Enchanted World. Cartesian Empiricism in Balthasar Bekker's Radical ReformationDobre, Mihnea and Nyden, Tammy. Cartesian Empiricisms, Springer, pp.275--306, 2013
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Philosophy and Genealogy. Ways of writing the history of philosophyLærke, Mogens and Schliesser, Eric and Smith, Justin E. H. Philosophy and Its History: New Essays on the Methods and Aims of Research in the History of Philosophy, Oxford University Press, pp.50--70, 2013
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Vampires as Creatures of the ImaginationDiseases of the Imagination and Imaginary Disease in the Early Modern Period., Brepols Publishers, pp.341-373, 2012
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"Bent and Directed towards Him". Kircher's sunflower clock seen from a baroque perspectiveScience in the Age of Baroque, Springer, pp.37-65, 2012, International Archives of the History of Ideas
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Philosophical Enquiries into the Science of SensibilityKoen Vermeir and Michael Funk Deckard. The Science of Sensibility: Reading Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, Springer, pp.3-56, 2012
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Preface: Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry in context, 250 years laterThe Science of Sensibility. Reading Edmund Burke's Philosophical Enquiry, Springer, pp.v-xx, 2012, International Archives of the History of Ideas
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CIRCULATING KNOWLEDGE OR SUPERSTITION?Sven Dupré and Christoph Lüthy. Silent Messengers. The Circulation of Material Objects of Knowledge in the Early Modern Low Countries, LIT, pp.293-328, 2011
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From Psychosomatic and Maternal Fancy to Demonic and Cosmic Imagination.2012
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CURING THE FAITHFUL2011
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Guerir ceux qui ont la foi2011
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What kind of management suits science best?2010
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Restoring Pluto2010
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L’Analogie et les techniques. Approches interdisciplinairesCNRS Ed., 2017
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