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Michiel van Kempen received the “Pro Cooperatione” award for his teaching at Hungarian universities, his contributions in Hungarian journals and the Erasmus partnership he co-initiated between the UvA and the ...

PhD candidate Wigbertson Julian Isenia received an honourable mention for the Gregory Spragrue Prize from the Committee on LGBT History for his article "Looking for kambrada: Sexuality and social anxieties in the ...

The NWO has awarded funding (between 275,000 and 750,000 euros) to nine interdisciplinary research proposals on digitalisation submitted by humanities researchers and social scientists. Researchers from the UvA's ...

NWO heeft aan negen interdisciplinaire onderzoeksvoorstellen in de sociale en geesteswetenschappen op het gebied van digitalisering een subsidie toegekend van tussen de 275.000 en 750.000 euro. Bij twee van de ...

Eds. Jelena Novak and John Richardson | This book resulted from the 2013 ASCA conference "Einstein on the Beach: Opera after Drama" organized by Jelena Novak and Sander van Maas.

Open Competition on Digitisation project by Olav Velthuis (UvA) and Thomas Poell (UvA) awarded | This project studies the spectacular rise of webcam sex platforms, such as Chaturbate, Cams.com or Myfreecams. What is ...

For the third issue of Soapbox, a graduate peer-reviewed journal for cultural analysis, we invite young researchers to submit abstracts that critically engage with the concept of ‘contamination.’ Please submit your ...

Edited by Huub van Baar and Angéla Kóczé | Foreword by Malachi H. Hacohen

On Friday, 3 January, the American army assassinated the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. Iran retaliated by launching missiles at the Al Asad air base near Baghdad, Iraq, at which US forces are stationed, apparently ...

Op vrijdag 3 januari doodde het Amerikaanse leger de Iraanse generaal Qassem Soleimani. Wie was hij en wat heeft zijn dood voor gevolgen? UvA-historicus en Iran-kenner Peyman Jafari was te gast bij verschillende ...

Dr Uğur Ümit Üngör (1980) has been appointed professor by special appointment of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), as of 1 February 2020. The special ...

Mario Damen has been awarded a five month fellowship at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS) in 2021.

Maartje van Gelder, Associate Professor in Early Modern History, has been appointed as the new director of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. From 1 February she will be the successor of Guy Geltner, who ...

UvA Humanities researchers are invited to submit workshop proposals for 2500 euros in all areas of the Humanities and Cognitive Science by 31 December 2019.

e-LADDA (Early Language Development in the Digital Age) is a Marie Curie International Training Network. Stefania Milan is the PI for the UvA. She is hiring one PhD candidate at the UvA for the project: "Apps for ...

Eastern Europe expert Artemy Kalinovsky is one out of seven UvA researchers to receive a Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council (ERC). This prestigious grant is awarded to individual researchers and ...

Oost-Europa-onderzoeker Artemy Kalinovsky is een van de zeven UvA-wetenschappers die een Consolidator Grant van de European Research Council (ERC) toegekend hebben gekregen. De prestigieuze subsidie is ...

The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Consolidator Grants to neuroscientist Birte Forstmann, Eastern Europe researcher Artemy Kalinovsky, clinical hematologist Arnon Kater, behavourial scientist Shaul ...

In collaboration with the Amsterdam University Press, the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory and Material Culture (AHM) has launched the new international peer reviewed open access journal International Journal of ...

International Workshop, 18-19 June 2020 at the University of Amsterdam | Confirmed keynote speakers: Prof. Máximo Sozzo (Sociology and Criminology, Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina) and Dr. Jennifer Turner ...