AIHR News

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

New book publication by Niels van Doorn with Temple University Press 2019 | Because members of the Black queer community often exist outside conventional civic institutions, they must explore alternative intimacies ...

The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the funding scheme 'Cutting Edge Research Fund' that fosters (inter)national collaboration aimed at innovative, cutting edge research. The call for proposals for the Cutting Edge ...

The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for 0.5 FTE PhD Finishing Fellowships, tenable from January 1, 2020. Deadline for applications: October 1, 2019.

The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the Research Innovation and Sustainability (RIS) Fund that aims to support research staff in their career development and to expand their opportunities to conduct research. The ...

The UvA FGw Aspasia Fund aims to support women in their career development within the Faculty of Humanities at the UvA and to expand their opportunities to conduct research.

Save the date (October 4th, 2019): ILLC invites all colleagues at UvA and CWI interested in their research to visit the institute, watch posters and demo's, attend flash talks and enjoy drinks afterwards. More ...

The conference ‘The Stage of War’, to be held 26-27 March 2020 at Erasmus University Rotterdam, will focus on academic and popular representations of war and other large-scale conflicts. The Call for Papers for this ...

ASCA's annual report 2018 was written by Esther Peeren and Jaap Kooijman. If you are interested in having a hard copy, please contact Eloe Kingma at asca-fgw@uva.nl.

Apps have become an important part of our everyday life. However, how they operate is still largely unknown. This project develops novel digital methods to study how apps recombine, valorize and distribute data from ...

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 Isenia co-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' ...

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

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, ...