Vacancy ASH director
The position of Academic Director of ASH will become vacant on 1 August. Please send a letter and CV to bestuur-decaan-fgw@uva.nl when you are interested in this position. Deadline is 29 March. Read more (in Dutch)
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Vacancy Postdoctoral researcher ‘Refugees and Early Modern States’
ASH currently has a vacant Postdoctoral position as part of the NWO-funded VICI Project The Invention of the Refugee in Early Modern Europe, led by professor Geert Janssen. Deadline is 25 April. Read more
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Funding awarded for Time Machine
The European Commission has chosen Time Machine as one of six proposals to develop a large-scale research initiative. The European Time Machine project will receive 1 million euros in funding to prepare a detailed roadmap of the initiative. Time Machine’s goal is to design and implement advanced new digitisation and artificial intelligence technologies (AI) to mine Europe’s vast cultural heritage – its historical ‘big data’. Claartje Rasterhoff and Juia Noordegraaf are coordinating the Amsterdam Time Machine. Read more
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Lucas van der Deijl starts blogging on Faces of Science
Faces of Science is an initiative of The Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), an online platform where PhD researchers share their experiences of working in academia. Read more (in Dutch)
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Martijn Icks
On Belgian radio 1 about the infamous Roman emperor Elagabalus. Listen to the item (in Dutch)
Tonny Beentjes
In the Volkskrant about the ceremonial tankard discovered in the Texel shipwreck. Read here
Carla van Boxtel
Coverage of the King's visit to the 60th anniversary of the history teachers association (VGN). Carla van Boxtel presented a lecture about teaching history and the constant changes of this high school subject. Read here
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Sanne Frequin
On NPO radio 1 OVT about the new footbridge at Tintagel castle, linked to the legend of King Arthur, and the Disneyfication of Medieval history. Listen to the item (in Dutch)
Antonia Weiss and Tim Verlaan
From Mies to Bjarke: Ten Moments in the Manly History of the Architect’s Model in Failed Architecture. Read here
David Rijser
In the Volkskrant about the Roman Limes, long distance walking route of the year 2019. Read here
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The 1819 Campaign, the Collapse of Spanish imperial authority and the Birth of Colombia
21 March 13:00-14:00 Bushuis, E101C
In this presentation Daniel Guttiérrez Ardila presents his latest source based research on the birth of modern Colombia and the collapse of Spanish imperial authority in the Viceroyalty of New Granada (corresponding to modern Colombia, Ecuador, Panama, and Venezuela). Read more
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The European Spa as a Transnational Public Space and Social Metaphor
21 March 17:00-18:00 Bushuis, F2.08B
Presentation HERA Project by Christian Noack. The HERA project “The European Spa as a Transnational Public Space and Social Metaphor” sets out to rethink the spa as a core concept and object of European debate. It investigates how the European spa, with its characteristic institutions such as the Kurpark, sanatorium, grand hotel and casino, developed into a transnational public space and functioned as a stage for the negotiation of political, social and cultural issues of European relevance. Read more
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The Avenging Archangel
22 March 16:30-18:30 University Library, Doelenzaal
In the 1960s Surrealism made a comeback in Europe and the US after being almost entirely ignored through the previous decade, when leading art critics and magazines favoured abstract, minimalist and conceptual art. Professor Gavin Parkinson, Senior Lecturer in European Modernism at The Courtauld Institute of Art, will discuss the exhibition Dada, Surrealism, and Their Heritage hosted at MoMA New York in1968. Read more
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An authorized desertion. Ovid’s model in Statius’ silva 1.2
28 March 17:00 PCH 1.05
Gianpiero Rosati will give the lecture 'An authorized desertion. Ovid’s model in Statius’ silva 1.2' in the Amsterdam Classics Seminar. Read more
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The reading of the unreadable
28 March 17:00 University Library, Potgieterzaal
Prof. Dr. Marta Smolińska (Poznań) will present the lecture "The reading of the unreadable. Illegibility as a critical strategy in Polish art since 1945 until today". Read more
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Models of Balance and Their Role in the Formation of Ideas, 1250-1375
3 April 16:00-18:00 University Library, Doelenzaal
Joel Kaye’s presentation centers on the changing ways that balance has been modeled over historical time and the profound impact these changing models exercise in the realm of ideas. Read more
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Sanne Klaver
21 March12:00 Agnietenkapel
Sanne Klaver, ASH PhD candidate, will defend the dissertation entitled 'Women in Roman Syria: the cases of Dura-Europos, Palmyra, and Seleucia on the Euphrates' supervised by Prof. Emily Hemelrijk and Dr Lucinda Dirven. Read more
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Grant news and upcoming deadlines
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Open Call: Joint Seed Grant Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI) and Centre for Urban Studies (CUS)
In this call grants will be awarded of between €2.500 and €5.000 per grant, up to a total call budget of €20.000. With a well-developed argument grants higher than €5.000 can be also considered. These Seed Grants are provided to foster an interdisciplinary dialogue between urban scholars in the humanities and in the social sciences, and to stimulate original research in the field of Urban Studies. In particular, we aim to enable exchange and collaborations between researchers from the Amsterdam Centre for Cultural Heritage and Identity (ACHI), the Amsterdam Centre for Urban History (ACUH), the ASCA Cities Project and the Centre for Urban Studies (CUS). Deadline 25 March 17:00. Read more
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Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellowships in Modern Greek Studies
The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for three 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 2019-2020, 1 fellowship will be offered for a period of 8 months and 2 fellowships for a period of 4 months each. he deadline for applications is 31 March 2019. Read more
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Cutting Edge Research Fund | Call for proposals reopened
As of 1 September 2018, the UvA FGw Cutting Edge Research Fund will be reopened.
Applications can be submitted continuously until no later than 30 June 2019. Furthermore, the call’s scope has been widen for Research Fellowships, now also enabling applicants to prepare an application by a consortium in the context of the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) and the Dutch Top Sectors. Read more
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NWO Matchmaking events - Dutch National Research Agenda
Researchers who are employed at Dutch knowledge institutions can submit proposals for the organisation of matchmaking events, within one or more of the 25 routes of the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA) from the portfolio for Research and Innovation. The purpose of the Matchmaking events is to form (new) consortia across the entire knowledge chain and developing proposals for innovative research. For each initiative, a maximum of € 10,000 can be applied for. Read more
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More news and deadlines at the ASH website Research funding opportunies
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