The Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) of the Faculty of Humanities is looking to fill one PhD position as part of the research project "Black Magic - (Re)discovering the development and ...

UvA is partner in the TACIT research programme that aims to break down barriers for the 1 in 4 Dutch affected by disabilities. TACIT is a five-year, 3.2 million Euro NWO research programme focused on Inclusive ...

We can express ourselves through clothing, hairstyles and jewellery. And this has been the case for thousands of years. According to historian Anique Hamelink, this means that you can learn a lot about social and ...

What provides meaning in life and how do people define meaning? UvA professor of Digital Humanities Rens Bod, in collaboration with the newspaper Trouw and Ipsos I&O, designed the ‘Meaning-Seeker Test’ to discover ...

The Faculty of Humanities welcomes all who wish to contribute to our research programmes by writing a dissertation.

The wide range of research in the humanities at the University of Amsterdam takes place within six research schools. Five of these together form the Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research (AIHR). One of them, ...

AIHR offers strategic funds to support faculty researchers to strengthen their CV or write grant applications.