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• Update: UvA Maagdenhuis

  2 Mar 2015

  For the moment, there is no intention to evacuate the Maagdenhuis.

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• First ever inaugural lecture to be given simultaneously in Esperanto, Dutch and English

  2 Mar 2015

  Federico Gobbo, professor by special appointment of Interlinguistics and Esperanto, will deliver his inaugural lecture simultaneously in Esperanto, English and Dutch. This will be the first time an inaugural lecture ...

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• Weekly meeting with Executive Board

  27 Feb 2015

  On Monday, 2 March, the first of a series of weekly meetings between students, staff and a delegation of the Executive Board will take place. The first meeting will be held in CREA’s Muziekzaal from 13:30 to 14:30.

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• Investment fund for Faculty of Humanities

  26 Feb 2015

  The Executive Board has made a number of pledges to the faculty student council of the Faculty of Humanities.

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• Livestream agenda-setting meeting at REC

  26 Feb 2015

  Watch the livestream of the agenda-setting meeting at Roeterseiland.

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• Update: agenda-setting meeting 26 February

  26 Feb 2015

  Because of increased interest, today’s agenda-setting meeting will be moved from CREA to REC C 1.04 to enable more people to attend. The meeting is meant table subjects for discussion with the Executive Board.

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• Student member in UvA Executive Board

  26 Feb 2015

  The UvA’s Supervisory Board has unanimously approved a proposal to appoint a student member to the Executive Board and faculty management. The deans also unanimously support the proposal.

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• Update: Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation

  26 Feb 2015

  Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building. The door was forced open and a member of security assaulted. The Executive Board has laid formal charges.

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• Statement Executive Board on Maagdenhuis occupation

  26 Feb 2015

  Following a peaceful demonstration last night, a group of protestors broke into the UvA’s Maagdenhuis building.

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• Statement Executive Board on Bungehuis eviction

  24 Feb 2015

  Issued by Louise J. Gunning-Schepers, president of the Executive Board

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• Executive Board regrets failed talks with Bungehuis protestors

  24 Feb 2015

  Talks between Amsterdam mayor Eberhard van der Laan, the UvA’s Executive Board and the Bungehuis protestors have failed.

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• ASHMS Members Teaching at Masterclass Jordan Museum

  20 Feb 2015

  Among various Heritage and Museum Studies scholars, ASHMS staff members Dr Mirjam Hoijtink, Dr Ihab Saloul and Dr Chiara de Cesari are invited to teach a five-day masterclass held in the Jordan Museum in Amman from ...

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• Update: court rules in favour of UvA in Bungehuis relief proceedings

  19 Feb 2015

  On Thursday, 19 February, the relief judge of the Amsterdam district court ruled in favour of the UvA after the university initiated preliminary relief proceedings against a group of protestors that have been ...

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• Call for Papers Migrants’ Memory in the Digital Age

  19 Feb 2015

  The increased migration and the convergent media environment that has compressed space and time call for studies of immigrants’ new practices and a critical inquiry of migrants’ relations to social media. Thus, we ...

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• Suze Zijlstra receives a Niels Stensen Fellowship

  17 Feb 2015

  This year the Niels Stensen Committee selected seven promising young researchers from eighty-eight applicants from all disciplines to receive a grant that allows them to carry out postdoctoral research at a ...

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• UvA to take part in Holland Scholarship

  16 Feb 2015

  The Holland Scholarship, a newly created Dutch scholarship programme, was officially launched on Monday, 16 February. The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will be one of the participating institutions in the programme, ...

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• KIEM grant for Julia Noordegraaf

  12 Feb 2015

  Prof. Julia Noordegraaf, director of the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI) of the University of Amsterdam and staff member of the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS), has ...

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• Kordes Award for 2013 UvA Annual Report

  11 Feb 2015

  The University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) 2013 Annual Report has been awarded the 2014 Deloitte Kordes Award in the category education. The Kordes Award, which is named after the former president of the Court of Audit, was ...

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• Newly discovered human remains shed light on Batavia shipwreck

  11 Feb 2015

  An international research team, which includes UvA archaeologist Liesbeth Smits, has uncovered the remains of four people in a sequence of remarkable discoveries related to the famous ‘Batavia’ shipwreck, which took ...

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• Summerschool: Archaeology Research Data Management

  10 Feb 2015

  As part of its Transnational Access (TNA) activities, the ARIADNE project is offering researchers the opportunity to apply to participate in summer schools and individual training visits to carry forwards their own ...

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• KIEM grant for Frank van Vree

  6 Feb 2015

  Prof. Frank van Vree, dean of the Faculty of Humanities and staff member of the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS), has been awarded a KIEM grant of €15,000 by the Netherlands Organisation for ...

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• Call for Papers: Unknown fronts

  6 Feb 2015

  On November 5/6, 2015, the University of Groningen will host a conference about the South Eastern and Eastern European theatre of the First World War. ASCH researchers and graduate students are invited to submit for ...

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• NIAS fellowships for ASHMS members Bram Kempers and Patricia Lulof

  4 Feb 2015

  Two members of the academic staff of the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS), Prof. Bram Kempers and Dr Patricia Lulof, started fellowships for six months at the Netherlands Institute for ...

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• Symposium on Dutch book illustration in the 20th century

  4 Feb 2015

  On 6 March 2015, a symposium about Dutch book illustration in the 20th century will take place at the Royal Library in The Hague. The symposium is organized on the occasion of the publication of the book 'The image ...

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• NWO Free Competition awarded to team including dr. Gaston Franssen

  3 Feb 2015

  NWO has awarded a grant of €740.000,– in the Free Competition Humanities for the research proposal 'Management of the Self: a Humanities Approach to Self-Management in Psychiatry and Psychosomatic Medicine', ...

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• The Rijksmuseum Research Fellowship Programme

  3 Feb 2015

  The Rijksmuseum operates a research fellowship programme for outstanding candidates working on the art and history of the Low Countries whose principal concern is object-based research.

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• Faculty Medal of Honour for Antonio Santarelli

  2 Feb 2015

  At the annual Satricum Day, on Saturday 31 January 2015, Antonio Santarelli received the Faculty Medal of Honour of the Faculty of Humanities.

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• In search of the origins of musicality

  2 Feb 2015

  Why do we have music? And what enables us to perceive, appreciate and make music? The search for a possible answer to these and other questions forms the backdrop to a soon-to-be released theme issue of Philosophical ...

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• Van Gogh travel grant for Niek Pas

  28 Jan 2015

  Dr Niek Pas has been awarded the Van Gogh travel grant for a joint research project "Sport as identity marker in colonial and postcolonial settings 19th and 20th century" with the Université de Nice Sophia Antipolis ...

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• Public lecture by Petra Brouwer

  28 Jan 2015

  On 9 March Petra Brouwer will give a public lecture entitled 'City Trip. Los Angeles' at Pakhuis De Zwijger, Amsterdam.

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