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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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• Gerard Steen has been appointed Professor of Language and Communication

  10 Nov 2014

  Gerard Steen conducts research into figurative meaning in language and communication. He has developed various methods for the identification and analysis of metaphor, drawing on social science techniques to test ...

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• Worldwide interest in the first results of Hooked on Music

  10 Nov 2014

  The interest in the first research results of ‘Hooked on Music’, a project in which UvA researchers Henkjan Honing and Ashley Burgoyne are collaborating with the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, UK, is ...

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• The eventful history of the Netherlands Institute for War Documents

  6 Nov 2014

  Under chaotic conditions between 1945 and 1950, the Netherlands Institute for War Documents (RIOD, now called the NIOD, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies) gathered documents that would ultimately form ...

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• Chicago to Publish New Journal: History of Humanities

  4 Nov 2014

  The University of Chicago Press is pleased to announce the launch of 'History of Humanities', a new journal devoted to the historical and comparative study of the humanities. The first issue will be published in the ...

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• Joep Leersen awarded an honorary doctorate by the University of Bucharest

  23 Oct 2014

  The honorary doctorate will be presented on 23 October 2014 to Joep Leersen, Professor of European Studies, for his work in the area of imagology (the study of national (self)images and stereotypes) and nationalism ...

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• ACLC's Esperantist, prof. Federico Gobbo, has won the Sejong Prize.

  22 Oct 2014

  Federico Gobbo, has won the Sejong Prize for academically distinguished papers, with his paper Learning Linguistics by Doing: The Secret Virtues of a Language Constructed in the Classroom.

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• National Sustainability Day: cricket on a cocktail stick

  17 Oct 2014

  Ever tasted a cricket? Last Friday, on National Sustainability Day, students, staff and anyone else interested had an opportunity to taste 'cricket on a cocktail stick'. It was also the day on which the UvA ...

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• UvA-VU Europe platform designated a Centre of Excellence

  15 Oct 2014

  The Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE), a joint initiative of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam (VU), has been designated a Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence ...

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• UvA holds certificate ceremony for scholarship students

  14 Oct 2014

  On Thursday, 9 October, the University of Amsterdam held a special certificate ceremony to honour this year’s recipients of the Amsterdam Merit Scholarship (AMS) and Amsterdam Excellence Scholarship (AES). The ...

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• War, Heritage and the Dynamics of Memory.

  14 Oct 2014

  Online expert talk with Prof. Dr. Rob van der Laarse on Heritage and Memory Studies.

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• No radicalisation of anti-Western stereotyping in Egypt

  13 Oct 2014

  Anti-Western stereotyping in Egyptian Islamic discourse has not undergone a process of radicalisation, according to a recent study by the UvA’s Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES). Researchers from ...

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• Call for Papers: 2015 International Conference of Europeanists

  9 Oct 2014

  The deadline for submitting proposals to the "2015 International Conference of Europeanists" is approaching quickly. All conference proposals must be received by the end of October 10, 2014.

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• Claartje Wesselink nominated for Jan van Gelderprijs

  9 Oct 2014

  Former PhD Claartje Wesselink belongs with her thesis “Artists of the Kultuurkamer” to the nominees for the Jan van Gelderprijs, the annual price of the Vereniging van Nederlandse Kunsthistorici (VNK) rewarded as an ...

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• Marijk van der Wende to step down as dean of Amsterdam University College

  2 Oct 2014

  As of 1 January 2015, Prof. Marijk van der Wende will be stepping down as dean of the Amsterdam University College (AUC), a joint excellence initiative of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam ...

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• UvA climbs to 77th spot on the THE World University Rankings

  2 Oct 2014

  Building on its solid performance of recent years, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has risen to the 77th spot on the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2014-2015. Last year, the UvA was ranked ...

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• Podcasts with Rob van der Laarse on Sobibor and camp survivors

  1 Oct 2014

  On Friday 26 September, two interviews with ASHMS academic director Rob van der Laarse were broadcasted.

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• Exhibition Satricum. Scavi e reperti archeologici

  1 Oct 2014

  In June 2014 the archaeological exhibition Satricum. Scavi e reperti archeologici was opened in the former iron factory of Le Ferriere (ancient Satricum), situated ca. 60 km south of Rome in the present-day Italian ...

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• UvA Annual Report 2013 available in English

  29 Sept 2014

  The University of Amsterdam recently issued its Annual Report for 2013 in English. In line with the UvA's previous annual reports, the Annual Report 2013 provides all the key facts and figures concerning teaching and ...

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• Getty Residential Scholar Grant for dr. Petra Brouwer

  23 Sept 2014

  Petra Brouwer was awarded a Getty Residential Scholar Grant for her research 'The pioneering architectural history books of Franz Kugler and James Fergusson', as part of the Getty research program Object - Value - ...

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• Leadership NSB unable to control own paramilitaries

  18 Sept 2014

  The leadership of the National Socialist Movement in the Netherlands (NSB), a far-right Dutch political movement that existed between 1931 and 1945, could barely control its own paramilitaries. As a result, the ...

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