Amsterdam School of Historical Studies

Representing and fostering the study of the human past from Antiquity to the present day

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27 Nov 2020

Susanne van Esdonk, ASH PhD candidate, will defend the dissertation entitled 'Jews and Muslims in London. Navigating between Commonalities and Differences in a Superdiverse City' supervised by Prof. Gerard Wiegers ...

1 Dec 2020

John Smit, ASH PhD candidate, will defend the dissertation entitled 'Tussen Leger en Maatschappij. Militaire muziek in Nederland 1819-1923' supervised by Prof. Wim Klinkert and Prof. Ton Koopman.

7 Dec 2020

Irene Zwiep will give the lecture ‘When Law and Custom Become Religion: The Invention of Judaism in the Late Enlightenment’ in the programme Current Issues in Religious Studies and Western Esotericism.

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ASH integrates a variety of (inter)disciplinary perspectives, including history, history of art, literature and religious studies. It encourages collaborations between scholars along thematic lines and in terms of period.

PhD programme

ASH’s vibrant PhD community is very much at the heart of its activities. It has over 40 PhD candidates employed by the faculty and 50 registered externally or self-funded PhD candidates.

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How did prisoners experience WWII transit and detention camp Westerbork? How did they report on these experiences in letters, diaries and eyewitness accounts? How did they look back on their time in the camp after ...

Dr E.A. Buettner (1967) has been appointed professor of Modern History at the University of Amsterdam’s (UvA) Faculty of Humanities (FGw).

Prof. C. M. Lerm Hayes (1967) has been appointed professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at the University of Amsterdam's (UvA) Faculty of Humanities.

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