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Stephan Besser (senior lecturer Modern Dutch Literature, ASCA) has been selected for a stay at the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NIAS-KNAW) in Amsterdam. The ...

The Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) is awarding funding to three UvA projects from the new Science Diplomacy Fund. The projects are led by Michael Kemper (European Studies), Valeria ...

The 40-minute documentary movie 'We were there – we are here' includes short fragments from the 137 interviews that were conducted in Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, and Turkey in the context of the SIGN-HUB ...

Researchers at the Rijksmuseum, the University of Amsterdam, VU Amsterdam and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) have developed a method that reveals how the costly pigment ultramarine was prepared ...

Many social groups and geographical areas are virtually absent from the narration of the COVID-19 emergency. They are given a voice in a new blog co-organised and co-edited by Stefania Milan, Associate Professor of ...

Historici zouden systematisch aandacht moeten besteden aan de manieren waarop denkers vroeger naar de toekomst keken. Die gedachte staat centraal in het proefschrift 'Enlightened Pessimism: Republican Decline in ...

Janna Coomans en Milton Fernando González Rodriguez hebben met hun proefschriften een Dissertatieprijs van de Stichting Praemium Erasmianum gewonnen. De prijzen worden jaarlijks toegekend aan jonge academici in de ...

The ACLC and Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) are looking for a PhD student to work on a project funded by Atos Medical AB (Sweden). The overall goal of the project is to develop a predictive framework for speech ...

Dr T. Poell (1973) has been appointed professor of Data, Culture & Institutions at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.

The Sheikh Zayed Book Award, and its associated accolades, are presented annually to outstanding writers, intellectuals, and publishers, as well as young talent whose writing and translation in humanities objectively ...

Can artificial intelligence help compose a successful Eurovision hit? Team Can AI Kick It, consisting for the most part of staff and students from the University of Amsterdam and the University of Utrecht as well as ...

Vacancies for two PhD researchers and a postdoc in the Vidi project led by Chiara de Cesari

Tobias Blanke (professor of Humanities and AI) and Julia Noordegraaf (professor of Digital Heritage) have taken the initiative to collect sources related to the COVID-19 crisis. This mainly involves collecting and ...

UvA-hoogleraren Julia Noordegraaf (Digitaal erfgoed) en Tobias Blanke (Humanities and AI) hebben het initiatief genomen om bronnen te verzamelen die betrekking hebben op de huidige coronacrisis. Het gaat daarbij met ...

Digital humanities scientist Giovanni Colavizza has been granted NWO funding for a research project that seeks to provide scientists and governments with reliable information in the battle against COVID-19. The World ...

Giovanni Colavizza, onderzoeker op het gebied van digital humanities, ontvangt van NWO subsidie voor een project dat wetenschappers en overheden moet helpen aan betrouwbare informatie in de strijd tegen het ...

Call for papers University of Amsterdam and Ghent University, 12 and 13 November 2020, Amsterdam.

The Association for Low Countries Studies is delighted to announce its third postgraduate colloquium, “City Lights”. Proposals are invited from PhD candidates and early career researchers in the humanities and social ...

Annet Dekker (ASCA), Tatiana Markaki (ARTES), Leonie Schmidt (ASCA) and Katrin Schulz (ILLC) have been awarded a temporary release from teaching duties to enable them to strengthen their CV and/or prepare ...

Carl Deussen, external PhD candidate at ASH, has been awarded €120,000 over two years by the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung to conduct his doctoral research and be embedded at the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum in Cologne. Carl ...