Amsterdam Institute for Humanities Research

A broad research institute covering research in all important subdisciplines of the humanities

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The European Federation of National Institutions for Language (EFNIL) has announced Anne-Mieke Thieme as one of the winners of the Master's Thesis Award.

The University of Amsterdam (UvA) has climbed six spots in this year’s QS World University Rankings, and is now 55th in the world. This places the UvA as the top Dutch university on the list and within the top 5% ...

'Emotional Ethics of The Hunger Games' (Palgrave Macmillan 2021) expands the ‘ethical turn’ in Film Studies by analysing emotions as a source of ethical knowledge in 'The Hunger Games' films.

All you need to know about becoming a PhD in the Humanities: application, training and practical matters.

The wide range of research covered by the AIHR is organised in five research schools.

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

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Lidwien Speleers, AHM PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation entitled 'The painting materials and techniques of the twelve painters in the Oranjezaal (1648-1652), Huis ten Bosch Palace', supervised by Prof. J. ...

Kiki Renardel de Lavalette, ACLC PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation 'Resistance to metaphor in parliamentary debates', under the supervision of Corina Andone, Christian Burgers and Gerard Steen.

How does the global digital media landscape, populated by multinational subscription video-on-demand providers (SVOD) such as Netflix, challenge local cultural policy regulators and content producers? In this ...