News

The 6th World Conference of the International Federation for Public History (IFPH) will be hosted by Freie Universität Berlin on 18 - 22 August 2020. The call for papers for this conference is now published.

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 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' ...

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 ...

In this second round, grants will be awarded of between €2.500 and €5.000 per grant, up to a total call budget of €15.000. With a well-developed argument grants higher than €5.000 can be also considered. Grants can ...

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 ...

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.

We are now welcoming presentations for the one-day playshop Urban Infrastructures. This interdisciplinary playshop, funded by a joint ACHI-CUS seed grant, aims to bring together UvA scholars from different faculties ...

Mikki Stelder has been awarded a Marie Curie Global Fellowship for the project Maritime Imagination: A Cultural Oceanography of The Netherlands.

The AHM conference 'Memory, Word and Image: W.G. Sebald's Artistic Legacy' invites scholars, artists and other practitioners to present papers, posters or workshops.

Call for Papers: Sixth Annual ACGS Conference, 17-18 October 2019, University of Amsterdam. Deadline for contributions: 15 May 2019

Symposium at the University of Amsterdam, 5th – 7th June 2019 | Keynote speakers: Sarah Clancy, Jim Hicks, Frank Keizer | Deadline for proposals: 10th April 2019 | Dates: The event will commence in the late afternoon ...

Four talented researchers in the humanities have been awarded a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship to conduct research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA): Giulia Frezza (Amsterdam Center for Language and ...