Amsterdam School of Historical Studies

The ASH office will be closed for the summer until August 23rd. For urgent matters, please specify this in the subject of your email as we will try to answer urgent messages every now and then.

This is the last newsletter of this academic year, we will bring you the next issue in September. Please keep sending us your events, recent publications and other news that you would like to share with your colleagues in the ASH community. Thanks!

To start the new year academic year 2021-2022 together we will organize ASH drinks on 30 September from 17:00 - 20:00. More details will follow later, but please save this in your calendar. We hope for many ASH members to join us!

Sofie Remijsen will be on maternity leave from end of August until December 2021. We are happy that Djoeke van Netten will take over the task of vice-director of ASH during Sofie's absence. Djoeke is Assistant Professor (UD) Early Modern History.
 

Sofie Remijsen, lecturer of Ancient History and vice-director of ASH, has been awarded a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research that she will carry out at the UvA.

Project: Lived time in late-antique Egypt
Historians and specialists in ancient languages investigate how people in ancient Egypt used and experienced time in their daily lives. They want to understand how people dealt with profound societal changes from about AD 250 to 750 (such as Christianisation or the Arab conquest) and the resulting social tensions. Read more

Anna-Rose Shack, ASH PhD researcher, has received funding for her doctoral research at the UvA through the NWO programme PhDs in the Humanities.

Project: Languages of Vulnerability in Early Modern Women's Poetry
Looking at how poetry articulates subjectivity in construction, this thesis is concerned with how early modern female poets represent and articulate vulnerable selfhood in lyric poetry. Situating itself in critical discussions on selfhood and gender in early modernity, this thesis reflects on patriarchal discourses of control that governed women and the female body. The research argues that for early modern female poets selfhood is not only complicated by tension between self-sufficiency and interpersonal relationships, but is contingent on vulnerability itself.

Dr. Alexander Kazamias and Dr. Dimitris Soudias are the Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellows at the Faculty of Humanities for the academic year 2021-2022.

Alexander Kazamias: Sound National Convictions: Anticommunist discourse and propaganda in post-war Greece, 1944-74 (fall semester) and Dimitris Soudias: Towards a cultural economy of uncertainty: creativity and entrepreneurialism in Athens and Berlin (spring semester). Read more

"De laatste overval" by Gabri van Tussenbroek and Tanja Holzhey as well as "Tussen utopie en crisis" by Frits Boterman are nominated for the Libris long-list. The Libris prize is a yearly award of 12.000 euro for History books aimed at a general audience. The short list will be published on 12 September. Complete Libris long-list

Frans Blom made a mini-documentary series about his recent book "Podium van Europa". In three short episodes he explains more about the first Dutch language theater, the Schouwburg in Amsterdam. Watch the episodes Money, Repetoire and Actorship (all in Dutch) on YouTube.

Mosaic 2.0 is a PhD scholarship program aimed at the under-represented group of graduates with a migration background from Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, Central and South America and Turkey in the Netherlands. The procedure consists of a pre-proposal and a full proposal. Mosaic 2.0 is a science-wide program; any research topic can be eligible. Candidates do not submit the application themselves; this is done by an intended supervisor. Deadline for pre-registration is 28 September. Read more

Call for Proposals Now Open
The DSC seeks to accelerate data driven research within the University of Amsterdam. Part of that mission is to foster interdisciplinary research. Specifically, in this call, we aim to foster research into new data science methods that help to tackle hard challenging problems in a given domain. 

The DSC provides funding for a PhD student to perform the research at this interaction. Such interaction is realized through joint supervision: one supervisor with core expertise in data science methods, the other with core expertise in the domain problem. The call budget allows for granting up to 7 positions. Deadline is 28 September at 17:00. Read more

The board of the Stichting Gastronomische Bibliotheek invites students and researchers to submit requests for the Professor J.M. van Winter Stipend 2022. Deadline 15 August.

Each year, the Stichting Gastronomische Bibliotheek makes a stipend of €1000 available for research that makes particular use of the History of Food collection of the Allard Pierson, the heritage collections held at the University of Amsterdam. This research is intended to throw further light on a particular aspect of the history of food and drink. The stipend is to be used as compensation for travel, accommodation and research costs and must be fully spent within one year of allocation. Read more

The Boekmanstichting organises the Boekman Dissertatieprijs in collaboration with NWO for the fifth time. The best Dutch PhD research on art, culture and society will be awarded €10.000. The Boekman Dissertatieprijs aims to present PhD research on art, culture and society to a broad public. Deadline 15 September.

The Boekman Dissertation Prize, an initiative of the Boekman Foundation and NWO, is awarded once every three years to the best dissertation at a Dutch university in the working area of the Boekman Foundation. Dissertations from the year 2018 and later are eligible for the award in 2021. Read more

The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) provides scholarships to early career scholars who can benefit from a research stay in the academic hub of Rome. Rome’s many international research institutes, museums and libraries offer a vibrant academic climate fore specially Archaeology, Classics,  ArtHistory, History, Anthropology, Political Science, Museology and Heritage studies - and the Humanities  and Social Sciences at large. KNIR fellowship holders form an interdisciplinary, close-knit community, engaging in field and lab work, debates, workshops and excursions. Scholarships are open to (R)MA students, (prospective) PhD students and postdocs. Depending on the career stage and plan, the KNIR facilitates research stays from 2 up to 20 weeks.

Read more about the different scholarships and grants and how to apply.