This new midsize project is a collaboration between researchers from the Humanities, Social and Behavioural, and Medical faculties, including the English Department’s Dr Emelia Quinn. It harnesses diverse areas of ...

Spiros Chairetis and Carl Mauzy will be the Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellows at the Faculty of Humanities for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Taking up debates around the place of the human in Victorian literature, in light of contemporary discussions about the Anthropocene, this new book argues for ‘human tissue’ as a conceptual tool for reading that ...

Two famous 17th century plays will soon be performed together for the first time in history; one in Dutch and one in English. The unique production The Miller + The King, which will take place in CC Amstel on 16 ...

Workshop organized by Eleni Papargyriou & Maria Boletsi. With the support of the ASCA group “Crisis, Critique and Futurity | Vondelzaal, Amsterdam University Library, 23 June 2023, 9.00-17.30 | Deadline for ...

How are the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria affecting our students? And what can the university, staff and fellow students do to support them? Dean Marieke de Goede asked students Zeynep Koban and Sherwan Qasem, who ...

Speaking several languages and commuting between different places can be enriching and unsettling at the same time. Federico Gobbo, professor of Interlinguistics and Esperanto, experienced that himself and started a ...

Diverging from critical paths that have focused on nostalgia as a memorializing practice or on Stuart nostalgia for Elizabeth, this book argues that Shakespeare’s Elizabethan history plays stage nostalgia as a ...