Amsterdam School of Historical Studies

Brennan Kettele and Tjalling Janssen joined ASH in January as PhD candidates at the Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents (HHP).

Brennan Kettelle Her thesis on the intersections of Satanic tropes and feminist film analysis during her first MA programme developed into a budding academic curiosity regarding the study of esotericism, leading her to the HHP in Amsterdam in 2019. Presently, Brennan is conducting PhD research at the HHP; a continuation of her rMA research, Brennan is investigating historical associations between the demoness Lilith and queerness within nineteenth-century artistic, literary, and sociopolitical discourses.

The PhD project "Her Dark Breath: Queer Currents within Nineteenth-Century Discourses on Lilith" is supervised by Marco Pasi and Manon Hedenborg White. Read more
 

Tjalling Janssen his PhD project centers around the concept of elemental beings. These entities were believed by some during the early modern period to reside in the elements of water, air, earth and fire. He already conducted research on the topic of elemental beings in his RMA thesis by investigating the instability of gendered descriptions in the reception of the concept from the sixteenth to the late nineteenth century. In the PhD project he shifts the focus to environmental history, researching how this concept was embedded in natural-philosophical, magical and early literary discourses from the Renaissance up to the eve of the Enlightenment, and what this can tell us about the relationship between humans and the natural world.

The PhD project "Envoys of the Macrocosm: Elemental Beings & the Relationship Between Humans & the Natural World in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Thought" is supervised by Wouter Hanegraaff and Peter Forshaw. Read more

Canon van 700 jaar Joods Nederland door Tirtsah Levie Bernfeld en Bart Wallet, Zutphen: Walburg Pers, 224p.

Veel mensen weten wel iets over de Nederlands-Joodse geschiedenis, maar veelal zijn dat fragmenten: de Portugese Joden van Amsterdam, het Joodse socialisme en de fatale oorlogsjaren. Maar wat is nu de doorgaande lijn? Hoe is het Joden in Nederland vergaan vanaf het eerste moment dat ze zich hier vestigden? Daar geeft deze Joodse canon in honderd vensters antwoord op. Elk venster gaat over een belangrijke gebeurtenis, een plaats, een persoon of een voorwerp. Iedere tekst is gekoppeld aan sprekende, iconische afbeeldingen. De vensters zijn per eeuw gegroepeerd rond een samenbindend thema, waardoor ze samen een lopend verhaal vormen. Lees meer

Bram Mellink and Jesse van Amelsvoort have been awarded the Healthy Future Seed Grant (50.000 euro) in the UvA's theme-based collaboration programme that invites academics to formulate new, sometimes unexpected research questions on socially relevant themes at the interface of disciplines and faculties - and to also incorporate these in teaching.

The project Distorted transmission. AIDS, minority stress and understanding Dutch (male) homosexual minorities’ collective past examines how the self-appreciation of (male) homosexual minorities in the Netherlands has been shaped by the HIV/AIDS-crisis of the 1980s. Through archival research and interviews with long-time HIV/AIDS survivors, we will investigate how the collective experience of HIV/AIDS has affected homosexual men’s self-appreciation from the 1980s to the present.

 

About the city's campaign against British party tourists in the Guardian.

In de Volkskrant over het staatsbezoek van Macron. Ook bij Spraakmakers op NPO1 en een analyse in de Groene Amsterdammer.
 

Bram Mellink

2 May 12:00 Agnietenkapel
George Muishout, ASH PhD candidate, will defend the dissertation entitled 'Muslims and palliative care in a Western context. An exploratory qualitative investigation' supervised by Prof. Gerard Wiegers and Prof. Hanneke van Laarhoven. Read more

8 May 14:00 Agnietenkapel
Annemiek Houwen, ASH PhD candidate, will defend the dissertation entitled 'Ja, Dit kan zo niet langer! Beeldvorming, kritisch analyseren en genderverhoudingen in de bovenbouw van het voortgezet geschiedenisonderwijs' supervised by Prof. Carla van Boxtel and co-supervised by Prof. Mineke Bosch and Dr P. (Paul) Holthuis. Read more

20 April 15:30 - 17:00 online
Asma Mehan (Texas Tech University) will give the talk 'Exported Modernism: Socialist and Capitalist Influences on Urbanization in the Middle East during the Cold War' in which she examines the dissemination, adoption, and adaptation of urban development and modernization paradigms in so-called 'Third World' countries, focusing on the dynamic interplay of local and global forces. Read more

23 April 15:00 online available for 24hrs
Inni Ludzie (Other People), a theatre play directed by Maciej Gorczyński, is part of the International Online Theatre Festival - IOTF 2023 and will be available to watch online for one day. The show is related to the panel discussion hosted by Kasia Lech on 24 April 21:00 where the panellists will discuss how Polish theatre narrated the 1989 Polish transformation in recent years, allowing new and marginalized perspectives to reflect on the events. Read more

24 April 21:00 online
This panel, hosted by Kasia Lech, discuss how Polish theatre narrated the 1989 Polish transformation in recent years, allowing new and marginalized perspectives to reflect on the events. It is part of the IOTF 2023: International Online Theatre Festival. Read more

24 April 15:30 - 17:00 University Library Doelenzaal
At the next Vossius Seminar Claudia Cristalli and Kim Hajek will present their research. Claudia Cristalli (Tilburg University) will give the talk “A “careful examination of all kind of phenomena”: Methodology and Psychical Research at the end of the Nineteenth Century” and Kim Hajek (Vossius Fellow) will present "Writing a Talking Cure: Psychotherapeutic Case Histories in Francophone Europe Around the Turn of the 20th Century". Read more

Every year, the Niels Stensen Fellowship Committee awards seven grants to enable young, recent postdoctoral students to gain international experience abroad early in their careers. Professors from a Dutch university or research institute can nominate candidates by sending a letter of recommendation before 1 May. Read more

The grant is intended for activities to validate the potential societal impact of discoveries from more curiosity-driven research, in ongoing research-projects in the Open Competition or Talent Programme. Applications may be for a minimum of €20k and a maximum of €30k. This Call will open on 1 May 2023 and will stay open until the funding limit has been reached, or otherwise until 30 April 2024. Read more

The KNIR aims to be a place of inspiration and meeting for academics at all stages of their scientific careers. University lecturers often have lots of teaching obligations and few opportunities to gain external means of research. The KNIR Colloquia are for them. These are closed, small-scale research meetings (expert meetings) in Rome, facilitated and funded by the KNIR. During these three-day intensive work conferences, early and mid-career scientists can strengthen their research profiles and boost their research.

The KNIR organises up to three Colloquia each year with no more than fifteen participants. All university lecturers working at an NWIB university can apply for this. The selection of candidates focuses on the quality of the application, on motivation and on the relationship with KNIR, Rome and/or Italy. Deadline is 1 May 2023. Read more

The FGw Consortium Fund supports research staff in initiating or consolidating national or international networking activities, with the aim of increasing research collaborations with (inter)national (and non-academic) partners. Ultimately, the fund should pave the way for applications by a consortium, both for EU grants (e.g. Horizon Europe Global Challenges; Marie Curie Doctoral Networks; COST) and in the context of the Dutch National Research Agenda (NWA). AIHR call page