In a few days, Donald Trump will be inaugurated for his second term as president of the United States. Leading up to this moment, there has been a lot of talk about his plans for the moment he enters the Oval Office. ...

Maartje van Gelder has been appointed professor of Early Modern Urban History at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. She will focus on the history of cities in the early modern period and, in ...

For the 11th Annual Conference of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture about 'A Polyphony of Emotions: Thinking Affect in Heritage, Memory and Material Culture' (2, 3, 4 July, 2025 at the ...

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two visiting research fellowships in the field of Modern Greek Studies for early-career and more advanced scholars, who wish to pursue ...

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.