Amsterdam School of Historical Studies

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The Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium (KVAB) has awarded Janna Coomans the Pro Civitate Prize for excellent work on urban history for her dissertation “In Pursuit of a Healthy City: Sanitation and the Common Good in the late medieval Low Countries.” The ceremony took place in Brussels on 14 December 2019. Read more

The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) has awarded Tim Verlaan the biannual Opler Grant for emerging scholars in the field of architectural history and its related disciplines. Created in 2002 by a gift from the Scott Opler Foundation, the award honors the memory of the late historian of Renaissance art and architecture. The fellowships support scholars who are new to the field and whose papers have been accepted for delivery at the SAH Annual International Conference, which takes place in Seattle in 2020. Read more

Within the Faculty of Humanities the Creative Amsterdam: An E-humanities Perspective (CREATE) program conducts research into the role of creativity in the historical development of cities, using digital sources and methods. One of the program lines focuses on the development of the Amsterdam Time Machine: an infrastructure for accessing historical information via the locations to which it relates. The development of this 'space-time machine' is part of the initiative to develop a European Time Machine for the digital disclosure and exploitation of cultural heritage. Within the CREATE program there is room for a historical researcher with expertise in the field of urban history and digital methods who plays a coordinating role in the research and development of the Amsterdam' Time Machine. Deadline is 26 January 2020. Read more

A Companion to the Early Modern Cardinal, edited by Mary Hollingsworth, Miles Pattenden and Arnold Witte, is the first comprehensive overview of its subject in English or any language. Cardinals are best known as the pope’s electors, but in the centuries from 1400 to 1800 they were so much more: pastors, inquisitors, diplomats, bureaucrats, statesmen, saints; entrepreneurs and investors; patrons of the arts, of music, literature, and science. This volume shows the impact which those men who took up the purple had in their respective fields and how their tenure of office shaped the entangled histories of Rome and the Catholic Church from a European and global perspective. Read more

The Vossius Center at the University of Amsterdam will host a two-day workshop on 7-8 May 2020, entitled “How Disciplines Interact”.  Deadline 15 January 2020. Read more

The Université de Nantes, the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Università di Napoli l’Orientale, the University of Kent and the University of Amersterdam are hiring doctoral candidates to join our project "The European Qur’an: Islamic Scripture in European Culture and Religion (1150-1850)".  Read the PhD call or read the postdocs call

About Ibn Khaldun at The Forum on BBC.
 

On TheScientist about Frederik Ruysch.

Irene Zwiep and Karel van der Toorn

In the Reformatorisch Dagblad about Jewish diaspora.

Pleads for saving Amsterdam's cultural havens in Folia.
 

About Iran in Buitenhof and Terzake (VRT).
 

Niek Pas

About the strikes in France on BNR radio.

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two visiting research fellowships in the field of Modern Greek Studies for early- and mid- career scholars who wish to pursue (part of) their research at the University of Amsterdam. For the academic year 2020-2021, 1 fellowship will be offered to an early-career scholar (with a PhD not earlier than 2014) for a period of 10 months, and 1 fellowship will be offered to a more experienced scholar (with a PhD between 2000 and 2014) for a period of 5 months. Deadline is 14 February 2020. Read more

The UvA FGw Aspasia Fund is currently inviting applications for the year 2020. The fund was established as an encouragement for women faculty members, to help them take a next step in their career by strengthening their research profile. To this aim, it facilitates temporary release from teaching duties. We welcome applications from women of diverse backgrounds or who have experienced a break in their career or additional responsibilities (e.g. due to leave and/or care tasks). Women academics on a teaching contract without allocated research time are also invited to apply. Deadline is 31 January 2020. Read more

The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the funding scheme 'Cutting Edge Research Fund' that fosters (inter)national collaboration aimed at innovative, cutting edge research. The call for proposals for the Cutting Edge Research Fund is open for the academic year 2019-2020. Applications can be submitted until 30 June 2020 (NB: these dates are tentative for the time being).

Applications are invited for two types of grants: 1. Network Grants and 2. Research Fellowships. The Fund was made available by the Sustainable Humanities Programme (Duurzame Geesteswetenschappen). Read more