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• News and the Changing Culture of Public Information

  2 June 2014

  The Huizinga Institute for Cultural History will organize a Summer School on (the history of) news culture at Amsterdam on 16-18 June 2014. ASCH researchers Helmer Helmers and Michiel van Groesen are members of the ...

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• VIDI award for Michiel van Groesen

  2 June 2014

  Dr Michiel van Groesen (Early Modern History) has been awarded a VIDI grant (€800,000) as part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. His project is ...

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• UvA awarded record number of Vidi grants

  26 May 2014

  Nineteen UvA researchers have been awarded a Vidi grant as part of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) Innovational Research Incentives Scheme. Having secured 19 of the 88 grant allocations for ...

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• Student satisfaction increases in all areas

  26 May 2014

  Student satisfaction at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has increased with regard to almost all aspects of their degree programmes, according to the 2014 National Student Survey (Nationale Studenten Enquête, NSE). ...

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• ACLC professor Kees Hengeveld member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences KNAW

  22 May 2014

  Academy members are prominent researchers and are nominated by peers from within and outside the Academy

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• VIDI Robin Celikates: Transformations of Civil Disobedience

  16 May 2014

  Robin Celikates receives a NWO VIDI Grant for his project: Transformations of Civil Disobedience: Democratization, Globalization, Digitalization.

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• Bicycle shed empty on Thursday, 1 May

  28 Apr 2014

  Due to maintenance in the PCH-bicycle shed (Spuistraat 134) all bicycles must be removed before Thursday, Mai 1st 2014.

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• Royal honours for three UvA academics

  28 Apr 2014

  On Friday, 25 April, linguist Anne Baker, physics historian Anne Kox and teacher trainer Ries Sieswerda were named Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion, Officer of the Order of Orange-Nassau and Knight of the ...

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• Call for Papers - Security/Mobility Workshop

  25 Apr 2014

  Between Imagination and Authority

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• Maaike Ambags-van der Meulen appointed new director of SPUI25

  9 Apr 2014

  Maaike Ambags-van der Meulen will be taking over as director of SPUI25, the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) academic and cultural centre, as of 1 June 2014. She is succeeding Margot Dijkgraaf, who is moving on to ...

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• War museums more popular than ever

  24 Mar 2014

  Seventy years after the liberation, interest in recalling the Second World War continues undiminished. The Netherlands has no fewer than 83 museums whose primary focus is on the Second World War, and this number only ...

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• Not all ‘questionable’ artists came to a bad end

  18 Mar 2014

  A recurring image in the media and literature is that of the ‘questionable’ artist who, having chosen the wrong side during World War Two, saw his career go up in smoke when branded as a collaborator afterwards. ...

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• Italian award ‘Frumento d’oro’ for Marijke Gnade

  11 Mar 2014

  On 14 March Marijke Gnade, professor by special appointment in the Archaeology of Pre-Roman Cultures in Central Italy, will receive the ‘Frumento d’oro 2014.’ This award is assigned to women who have initiated ...

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• ERC Grant for ChinaCreative

  10 Mar 2014

  The European Research Council has awarded Jeroen de Kloet an ERC consolidator grant for a research project titled 'From Made in China to Created in China – A Comparative Study of Creative Practice and Production in ...

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• Reading lists of 19th century Dutch reading groups remarkably international

  10 Mar 2014

  Little patriotic literature was read in reading groups in the North Netherlands (the present-day Netherlands) during the period of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (1815-1830). In fact, a large part of the ...

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• UvA rises in THE World Reputation Rankings

  10 Mar 2014

  Following up on last year’s strong performance, the University of Amsterdam has risen in the latest THE World Reputation Rankings 2014.

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• Wereldreizigers? Over de grenzen van de mondiale mobiliteit

  1 Mar 2014

  In deze bijeenkomst leggen verschillende geesteswetenschappers de keerzijde van het Boekenweekthema bloot door te wijzen op de grenzen van de mondiale mobiliteit en de manieren waarop deze grenzen in literatuur en ...

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• Humanities listed in QS World University Rankings top 50

  27 Feb 2014

  In the QS World University Rankings by Subject, Communication & Media Studies is the highest ranked subject area of the University of Amsterdam (UvA), listed 10th worldwide.

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• Nine UvA subject areas listed in QS World University Rankings top 50

  27 Feb 2014

  In the QS World University Rankings by Subject, published on Wednesday 26 February, nine of the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) subject areas are in the top 50. Communication & Media Studies is the highest ranked ...

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• Martin Stokhof appointed member of ERC Scientific Council

  24 Feb 2014

  The European Commission has appointed Martin Stokhof, professor of Philosophy of Language at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), as a member of the Scientific Council of the European Research Council (ERC). Stokhof, ...

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