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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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