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• Mieke Mulder named UvA Lecturer of the Year 2013

  14 Jan 2014

  Dr Mieke Mulder was named UvA Lecturer of the Year 2013 during the University's Dies Natalis celebrations on 8 January 2014.

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• UvA celebrates 382nd Dies Natalis

  9 Jan 2014

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) celebrated its 382nd Dies Natalis (birthday) on Wednesday, 8 January 2014. Besides the traditional Dies speech, the event also saw honorary doctorates being awarded to legal scholar ...

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• UvA and VU pool knowledge on Europe

  8 Jan 2014

  The new Amsterdam Centre for Contemporary European Studies (ACCESS EUROPE), run jointly by VU University Amsterdam (VU) and the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been set up to gain a better understanding of the ...

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• Academics speak out against large-scale surveillance by intelligence services

  7 Jan 2014

  Four academics at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have issued a declaration speaking out against the large-scale collection of data by intelligence services.

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• Differences in rhythm perception between human and non-human primates

  2 Jan 2014

  Despite their genetic proximity, human and non-human primates differ in their capacity for beat induction, which is the ability to perceive a regular pulse in music or auditory stimuli and accordingly align motor ...

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• Representative advisory bodies UvA withhold approval for Amsterdam Faculty of Science

  23 Dec 2013

  The Executive Boards of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and VU University Amsterdam (VU) are disappointed that – after receiving approval from the representative advisory bodies of the VU – the representative ...

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• Egil Asprem wins PhD Dissertation Award

  16 Dec 2013

  Dr. Egil Asprem is the first winner of the Gerardus van der Leeuw PhD Dissertation Award with the PhD dissertation 'The Problem of Disenchantment: Scientific Naturalism and Esoteric Discourse, 1900–1939.'

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• ERC Consolidator Grants awarded to six UvA and AMC-UvA researchers

  12 Dec 2013

  The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded prestigious Consolidator Grants to six researchers at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and Amsterdam Medical Center (AMC-UvA). The recipients are astronomer Joeri van ...

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• Administration closed on the evening of 19 December, 17.30-18.30 hrs.

  11 Dec 2013

  The administration will be closed on the evening of 19 December , 17.30-18.30 hrs.

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• Evert Verhulp new chair of Amsterdam Academic Club

  11 Dec 2013

  Evert Verhulp, professor of Labour Law, has been appointed chair of the Amsterdam Academic Club (AAC) effective 1 January 2014. He will succeed Prof. Mirjam van Praag, who has headed the AAC's new board over the last ...

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• Opening hours during the holidays

  6 Dec 2013

  The INTT will be closed from Tuesday, December 24, 2013 up untill Thursday January 2, 2014.

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• Barcelona visits UvA for conference ‘Barça and Catalan culture in Amsterdam’

  28 Nov 2013

  Ajax competed against FC Barcelona in the Champions League on 26 November. On that same day, the Faculty of Humanities hosted a conference on Catalan culture with the Vice President of FC Barcelona, Carles Vilarrubí, ...

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• UvA honorary doctorates for economist Alvin Roth and legal scholar James Crawford

  18 Nov 2013

  The University of Amsterdam (UvA) will award honorary doctorates to economist and Nobel Prize winner Alvin Roth and legal scholar James Crawford during the UvA Dies Natalis celebration on Wednesday, 8 January 2014.

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• Call for Papers - Social Media and the Transformation of Public Space Conference

  7 Nov 2013

  Funded by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Science

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• UvA brings together expertise on the Middle East

  4 Nov 2013

  The University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Amsterdam Centre for Middle Eastern Studies (ACMES) will officially open on Thursday, 14 November with presentations by prominent historian Joseph Massad of Columbia University and ...

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• The Universal Art of Samuel van Hoogstraten (1627-1678)

  1 Nov 2013

  Bij Amsterdam University Press is een bundel verschenen over Samuel van Hoogstraten. Van Hoogstraten was meer dan een succesvol leerling van Rembrandt en een veelzijdig schilder.

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• Hans Amman appointed vice-president of UvA-AUAS/HvA Executive Board

  30 Oct 2013

  The Supervisory Boards of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences (AUAS/HvA) have appointed Professor Hans Amman as member and vice-president of the UvA-AUAS/HvA Executive ...

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• Karen Maex new dean UvA Faculty of Science

  23 Oct 2013

  The Executive Board of the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has appointed Professor Karen Maex as the new dean of the Faculty of Science (FNWI). Maex is a full professor of Material Physics for Nanoelectronics, and ...

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• Call for Papers - Performing Protest Conference

  14 Oct 2013

  Re-Imagining the Good Life in Times of Crisis

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• Humanities 2nd of the Netherlands in THE World University Rankings

  4 Oct 2013

  The Faculty of Humanities of the UvA is ranked 41st among the top universities by subject of the THE World University Ranking.

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