Performance as Critical Historiographic Practice
25 - 29 May 2026
How can performance operate as a practice that actively produces and intervenes in historical time, memory, and world-making?
Amsterdam School of Historical Studies
Representing and fostering the study of the human past from Antiquity to the present day
Upcoming events
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Visualising Knowledge
28 May 2026V.E. Mandrij will discuss their newly-published book Otto Marseus van Schrieck and the Art of the Butterfly and the results of their research conducted at the University of Konstanz / State Academy of Fine Arts in ... -
Entangled Freedoms & RPA Decolonial Futures Roundtable| LIBERATIONS: Questions For Art And Theory
1 Jun 2026In collaboration with the ERC-funded project Entangled Freedoms, the RPA Decolonial Futures will host a roundtable as part of the international workshop LIBERATIONS: Questions for Art and Theory. Registration required. -
Masterclass on 'Decolonizing water research: Creative ethno-graphies and knowledge co-creation for liminal ecologies'
3 Jun 2026On 3 June, RPA Decolonial Futures Scholar in Residence, Dr. Jenia Mukherjee (Associate Professor, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur) will give a Masterclass on 'Decolonizing water research: Creative ...
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Research
ASH integrates a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives, including history, history of art, literature and religious studies.Read more -
ASH PhD programme
ASH’s vibrant PhD community is very much at the heart of its activities. ASH welcomes PhD researchers from all over the world and has over 25 PhD candidates employed by the faculty and 70 registered externally or ...Read more
News
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Luuk Huitink appointed Professor of Greek and Latin Literature in Context
Luuk Huitink has been appointed Professor of Greek and Latin Literature in Context at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. His work focuses, among other things, on linguistics, narratology and ...Read more -
Oproep nominatie voor Tim Killiam-beurs
Stichting Tim Killiam beheert de nalatenschap van architect, tekenaar en fotograaf Tim Killiam (1947-2014). Killiam publiceerde onder andere de populaire Amsterdamse grachtengids (1978), een eigentijdse update van ...Read more -
Collection in focus: the Todten-tanz comes to life
In the feature “Collection in Focus”, we highlight remarkable digitised heritage items and surprising discoveries from the UvA’s heritage collections. These collections are managed and made accessible by Allard Pierson.Read more -
Vossius Research Fellow: Wouter Capitain
Wouter Capitain joins the Vossius Center for three months from April 2026 as a Research Fellow with the project “Musicology and the Human–Animal Divide”.Read more