AIHR News

Ihab Saloul, Research Co-Director of the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM), gives a film lecture about the exhibition 'A Tale of Hidden Histories' at the EYE Filmmuseum.

Mikki Stelder has been awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship for the project Maritime Imagination: A Cultural Oceanography of The Netherlands.

Het Rusland van Vladimir Poetin zit met een zware erfenis. Twee wereldoorlogen, twee revoluties, een burgeroorlog, decennia van sociale experimenten en een jacht op ‘vijanden van het volk’ hebben in nog geen veertig ...

Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system.

The AHM conference 'Memory, Word and Image: W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacy' invites scholars, artists and other practitioners to present papers, posters or workshops.

Join the guest lecture, 'The Future of Europe' by Ágnes Heller on Monday 15th of April from 16:00 till 18:00.

Routledge published Gabriel Moshenska's new book 'Material Cultures of Childhood in Second World War Britain' in the series Material Culture and Modern Conflict.

ICOMOS University Forum organizes in collaboration with ICOMOS International and ICOMOS Netherlands the workshop 'Thinking and planning the future in heritage management' in Amsterdam on 11-14 June 2019.

AUP published a new publication in the 'Heritage and Memory Studies' series, 'The Politics of Disability in Interwar and Socialist Czechoslowakia. Segregating in the name of the Nation', edited by Victoria Shmidt.

The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for 0.5 FTE PhD Finishing Fellowships, tenable from January 1, 2020. Each fellowship will be for a period of up to 12 months. The award holder is required to deliver a ...

In a panel discussion, the invited speakers will consider contemporary as well as historical transnational connections between some of the key actors on the European far-right and ‘identitarian’ scene, addressing ...

Even those of us who can't play a musical instrument or lack a sense of rhythm can perceive and enjoy music. Research shows that all humans possess the trait of musicality. We are a musical species—but are we the ...

This conference focuses on the development of a science-based conservation practice and the emergence of art history as a ‘science of art’ (or Kunstwissenschaft) in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries (1850-1950).

Call for Papers: Sixth Annual ACGS Conference, 17-18 October 2019, University of Amsterdam. Deadline for contributions: 15 May 2019

Symposium at the University of Amsterdam, 5th – 7th June 2019 | Keynote speakers: Sarah Clancy, Jim Hicks, Frank Keizer | Deadline for proposals: 10th April 2019 | Dates: The event will commence in the late afternoon ...

In the academic year 2018-2019, Alex Drace-Francis, Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History, has been appointed Lapedatu Fellow at the New Europe College, Bucharest.

Two vacant PhD positions as part of the ERC-funded project MIND: The Muslim Individual in Imperial and Soviet Russia, led by dr Alfrid Bustanov (University of Amsterdam). Applications are now invited from excellent ...

The European Commission has chosen Time Machine as one of six proposals to develop a large-scale research initiative. The European Time Machine project will receive 1 million euros in funding to prepare a detailed ...

Dr Giulia Frezza has been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to conduct research at the ACLC about 'Metaphorical Narratives in Dementia Discourse'.

Various subject areas at the University of Amsterdam are highly ranked in the 2019 QS World University Rankings by Subject, which were published on Wednesday, 27 February. The UvA ranks among the top 100 worldwide in ...