Last week, a large number of music recordings from the former Dutch East Indies were transferred digitally to the Indonesian province of East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) by the University of Amsterdam (UvA). It was a ...

Anabel Harisch joins the Vossius Center for three months from September 2024 as a Research Fellow her research interests span the history of archaeology, methodological development, and the transformation of research ...

Which role did ethnicity play in the medieval Middle East and how did the inhabitants view ethnic differences back then? Historian Josephine van den Bent hopes to find an answer to these questions with her new ...

From September 2024, Feike Dietz (Professor in Dutch literature) and Djoeke van Netten (UHD in early modern history) will assume the role of co-directors of the Amsterdam Centre for Studies in Early Modernity (ACSEM).

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.