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The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded a Veni grant worth up to 250,000 euros to 166 highly promising young scientists. The grant provides the laureates with the opportunity to further elaborate their own ideas ...

ASCA Phd candidate Wigbertson Julian Iseniaco-curated the exhibition 'Nos Tei' (Papiamentu/o for we are here or we exist) at IHLIA LGBT Heritage. 'Nos Tei' is a response and addition to the exhibition 'With Pride' by ...

Kees Hengeveld, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the ACLC, has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

The Faculty of Humanities will host three visiting researchers in 2019-2020 via the Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Fellowships. The fellowships are sponsored by the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, which is also the ...

Enoch Aboh, Professor of Learnability, has been appointed as the new director of the ACLC. As of 1 August he will be the successor of Paul Boersma, who was the ACLC director for five years.

Cindy van Boven has been awarded a PhD position in the highly competitive NWO PhDs in the Humanities programme, which she will carry out within ACLC. She will start her project in September 2019.

Media scholars Jori Snels and Sal Hagen, historian Rosa de Jong and sign linguistics scholar Cindy van Boven have received funding for their doctoral research at the UvA through the NWO programme PhDs in the ...

Mediawetenschappers Jori Snels en Sal Hagen, historicus Rosa de Jong en gebarentaalwetenschapper Cindy van Boven ontvangen via het NWO-programma Promoties in de geesteswetenschappen financiering voor hun ...

The winner of the ASH Dissertation Award 2018-2019 is Janna Coomans (Medieval History) for her PhD dissertation 'In Pursuit of a Healthy City: Sanitation and the Common Good in the Late Medieval Low Counties', ...

The joint first prizewinners of the ASH Valorisation Award 2018-2019 are Lia van Gemert and Tim Verlaan, as announced on 14 June at the ASH end of term event and awards ceremony.

Guy Geltner, Professor of Medieval History, has been appointed as the new director of the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. From 1 August he will be the successor of Liz Buettner, Professor of Modern History, ...

The University of Amsterdam has been ranked 64th this year in the 2019/2020 QS World University Rankings. This is a drop of seven places compared to last year when the UvA was in 57th place. The ranking was published ...

Human language is the most powerful communication system that evolution has produced. Within this system, we can talk about things we can physically see, such as cats and tables, but also about more abstract ...

KNIR Colloquia are small, exclusive expert meetings, hosted and funded by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. Their purpose is to offer early or mid-career academics from all fields the opportunity to improve ...

Luca Incurvati and Julian J. Schlöder, attached to the Department of Philosophy and the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation, have won the Sanders Prize in Metaethics 2019 for their paper 'Inferential ...

The Miracle of Amsterdam presents a “cultural biography” of a Dutch devotional manifestation.

Activisme, feminisme en islam is een studie naar Marokkaanse feministische stemmen in zowel Marokko als Nederland. Enerzijds bevechten deze stemmen de negatieve stereotyperingen die maar al te vaak de boventoon ...

The ASCA Awards Committee—Barbara Titus Divya Nadkarni, Leonie Schmidt, and Barbara Titus—gave the 2019 ASCA Awards to meLê yamomo, Alejandra Espinosa and Sruti Bala.

Eloe Kingma has been appointed Confidential Adviser at the Faculty of Humanities per 1 June, joining Lia van Gemert and Eric Laeven.

Dr Eva van Lier has been awarded a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research that she will carry out at the UvA.