Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp has received funding for her PhD Project through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities

The first of DATACTIVE’S PhD students to cross the finish line, Niels ten Oever, has received the Honorable Mention for his dissertation “Wired Norms: Inscription, Resistance, and Subversion in the Governance of the ...

Bjorn Beijnon received the NWO Doctoral Grant for Teachers which is aimed at allowing teachers to gain research experience in order to improve the quality of education and to strengthen the ties between universities ...

Sofie Remijsen, lecturer of Ancient History and vice-director of ASH, has been awarded a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research that she will carry out at the UvA.

The Dutch Research Council (NWO) has awarded Vidi grants worth €800,000 each to 13 experienced researchers from the UvA and the Amsterdam UMC, location AMC. The grants will enable them to develop their own innovative ...

Dr. Alexander Kazamias and Dr. Dimitris Soudias are the Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellows at the Faculty of Humanities for the academic year 2021-2022.

The research schools of the Faculty of Humanities (ACLC, AHM, ARTES, ASCA, ASH, and the interfaculty institute ILLC) have been working on recruiting new PhD candidates – one for each school. The two remaining ...

Anna-Rose Shack, Jasmijn Leeuwenkamp and Heleen de Vries have received funding for their doctoral research at the UvA through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities. Financiers are the Programme Office Sustainable ...

Imme Lammertink has been awarded an ABC Talent Grant for her postdoc research project entitled 'Acquiring Language by Stats and Structure', which she will carry out at the ACLC starting in the autumn 2021.

Giovanna Fossati, UvA professor of Film Heritage and Digital Film Culture, has become one of the new members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, better known as the Oscars. Fossati, who is also the ...

The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for PhD Finishing Fellowships, tenable from January 1, 2022. Deadline for applications: October 1, 2021.

Rens Bod, Professor of Digital Humanities at the University of Amsterdam, recently received two academic awards: the Francqui Medal and a medal from Ghent University. He is awarded the honours as holder of the ...

Huub Dijstelbloem, professor of Philosophy of Science, Technology and Politics, will be the new scientific director of the UvA's Institute for Advanced Study (IAS). His appointment will take effect on 1 September and ...

The UvA has started a new tradition: the annual Medallion Day. On this day each year, the UvA will award Honorary Medallions to individuals who have made a special contribution to the university. At the first ...

The 2021 ASCA Awards Committee, Jakko Kemper, Misha Kavka, and Jeff Diamanti, have awarded Flora Lysen's dissertation Brainmedia: One Hundred Years of Performing Live Brains, 1920–2020; Marrigje Paijmans article ‘An ...

Pei-Sze is joining UvA's Media Studies department as an Assistant Professor in Media and Culture, and will be teaching courses on film studies and global media culture. Her research has centred on peripheral screen ...

The research schools of the Faculty of Humanities (ACLC, AHM, ARTES, ASCA, ASH, and the interfaculty institute ILLC) have been working on recruiting new PhD candidates – one for each school. Four of six positions ...

The University of Kassel, Ball State University, Beaconhouse National University and the University of Pretoria published a call for papers for the virtual conference 'A Focus on Pedagogy: Teaching, Learning and ...

The University of Kent published a call for papers for the conference '(In)Tangible Heritage(s)', a conference on design, culture and technology in past, present, and future on 15-17 June 2022 in Canterbury, UK.

Postdoc researcher positions as part of the ERC funded research project Building a Better Tomorrow: Development Knowledge and Practice in Central Asia and Beyond, led by dr Artemy Kalinovsky.