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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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• Public lecture by Petra Brouwer

  28 Jan 2015

  On 8 February Petra Brouwer will give a public lecture entitled 'Uitzicht. Over de vormgeving van onze blik op het IJ' at Brooklyn Hotel, Amsterdam.

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• Geke van Velzen appointed secretary general UvA

  22 Jan 2015

  Geke van Velzen, secretary general of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS/HvA), has been appointed secretary general of the University of Amsterdam (UvA). Van Velzen will combine both positions, ...

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• 'Choice' award for publication Emily Hemelrijk

  21 Jan 2015

  Title is among only 10% named to prestigious annual 'Outstanding Academic Titles' list.

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• Call for entries: The Heritage In Motion Awards 2015

  13 Jan 2015

  Heritage in Motion is an annual multimedia competition for the creators of films, games, apps and websites on themes related to Europe’s heritage, cultural and natural, tangible and intangible. Heritage in Motion ...

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• SIEF 2015

  12 Jan 2015

  On 21-25 June 2015, the 12th SIEF (International Society for Ethnology and Folklore) Congress will take place in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

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• UvA celebrates 383rd anniversary

  12 Jan 2015

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) celebrated its 383rd anniversary (Dies Natalis) on Thursday, 8 January. Before delivering her opening address, Rector Magnificus Dymph van den Boom briefly spoke about the recent ...

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• Book presentation 'A house of the thirties'

  16 Dec 2014

  Laura Roscam Abbing, former student heritage studies of the FGw-UvA, was one of the other nominees for the Jan van Gelderprijs 2014, the annual price of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK) rewarded as ...

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• Jan van Gelderprijs 2014 awarded to Claartje Wesselink

  16 Dec 2014

  The Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS) is proud to announce that Claartje Wesselink has been awarded with the Jan van Gelderprijs 2014 for her thesis ‘Artists of the Kultuurkamer’.

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• ASHMS launches two new book series

  11 Dec 2014

  The Amsterdam School of Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS) announces their launch of two new book series.

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• Eric Fischer appointed interim dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

  11 Dec 2014

  The Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has appointed Professor Eric. J. Fischer as interim dean of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, effective 1 January 2015. Fischer will fill this ...

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• Succession AUC dean

  11 Dec 2014

  Pending the appointment of the new dean of Amsterdam University College (AUC), the AUC Board has appointed Dr Ramon Puras (currently vice-dean of AUC) as acting dean for the coming semester (or until the appointment ...

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• Call for Applications

  11 Dec 2014

  The Council for European Studies is still accepting applications for the “Mellon-CES Dissertation Completion Fellowship” and the “Pre-Dissertation Research Fellowship.” Please help spread the word and circulate these ...

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• Willem Flinterman and Josephine van den Bent in De Groene Amsterdammer

  11 Dec 2014

  Willem Flinterman and Josephine van den Bent publish an article in De Groene Amsterdammer entitled 'Bidden, vechten, drinken en dichten'.

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• Call for Papers: Trans-Atlantic Dialogues on Cultural Heritage

  4 Dec 2014

  Trans-Atlantic dialogues on cultural heritage began as early as the voyages of Leif Ericson and Christopher Columbus and continue through the present day. Each side of the Atlantic offers its own geographical and ...

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• Hoofdzaken on Cultural Heritage and Identity

  28 Nov 2014

  The academic staff of the Amsterdam School for Heritage and Memory Studies (ASHMS) is closely connected to the ‘Conflict’ research domain of the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI). The ACHI ...

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• Mieke Zaanen appointed Director General of the KNAW

  18 Nov 2014

  Mieke Zaanen, Secretary General of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been appointed Director General of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), effective 1 February 2015.

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• Profile 2016: a new perspective for the Humanities

  18 Nov 2014

  Profile 2016 contains a proposal for the Faculty of Humanities’s new profile as envisioned for the years ahead.

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• Colonial era films: propaganda that persists

  17 Nov 2014

  The considerable indignation about the Netherlands's colonial past that still flares up regularly is in part due to the image that was presented in government-produced films about the Dutch Indies. According to these ...

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• Amsterdam educational institutes join valorisation support

  13 Nov 2014

  As from November 12 November, the UvA, AUAS/HvA, VU, VUmc and AMC-UvA will consolidate their Technology Transfer Offices into a new centre of expertise, to be called Innovation Exchange Amsterdam (IXA).

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• UvA honorary doctorates for astrophysicist Kouveliotou and heritage expert Van Rappard-Boon

  12 Nov 2014

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will award honorary doctorates to astrophysicist Chryssa Kouveliotou and heritage expert Charlotte van Rappard-Boon. Kouveliotou is receiving the honorary doctorate for her crucial ...

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