Vossius Research Fellow: Floris Solleveld
24 March 2025
Floris Solleveld joins the Vossius Centre for three months from March 2025 as a research fellow with the project “Concepts and Compilations: A data history of the humanities, 1700-1900”
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Vacancy: Postdoctoral researcher in Ottoman History
19 March 2025The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a Postdoctoral Researcher position in Ottoman History for four years (0.9 FTE), starting 1 Sept 2025. This position is part of the project Daily Bread: A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests, funded by t...Vacancy: PhD positions in The Daily Bread Project
18 March 2025The Amsterdam School for Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a fully funded PhD position (4 years; 1ft). You will work on the Italian subproject of the project Daily Bread. A Comparative Urban History of Early Modern Food Protests, funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientif...Vacancy: PhD position Intercultural Contact and Identity Formation in Premodern Frontier Zones
18 March 2025The Amsterdam School of Historical Studies (ASH) invites applications for a PhD position as part of the FGw Starting grant “Intercultural Contact and Identity Formation in Premodern Frontier Zones”, led by principal investigators Dr. J.M.C. van den Bent and Dr. L.F. Kattenberg.How does AI influence the images that it generates?
18 March 2025Now that anyone can create images with the aid of AI, we are seeing more and more AI-generated images around us. At the same time, little is known about how the underlying AI systems work and how biased they are – for example, in terms of gender. An interdisciplinary team of UvA academics are goi...New book by Rixt Woudstra and others
10 March 2025This open access book by ACUH member Rixt Woudstra and others tells a new and untold history of the architecture of West Africa in the colonial era, as revealed for the first time through the archives of the United Africa Company (UAC).Meet new ASH-members
7 March 2025Recently we were happy to welcome new members to ASH. Let's get to know the new PhD candidates.Call for sessions European Association for Urban History conference 2026
5 March 2025The EAUH conference will be held in Barcelona from Wednesday 2 September to Saturday 5 September 2026. The call for sessions is open until 15 April 2025.Historicizing Almere: How Almere’s social and urban fabric became agents in its shifting identity
4 March 2025Van Stipriaan Luïscius' research examines the history of new town Almere since its conception in the 1960s, particularly the under-explored 1995-2020 period, to introduce a new interpretation for understanding and categorizing new towns.Stadshistorici dragen bij aan tentoonstelling 'De geboorte van de stad'
3 March 2025Hoe werd Amsterdam de stad die we vandaag kennen? De tentoonstelling 'De geboorte van de stad. Op zoek naar middeleeuws Amsterdam' verkent de vroegste geschiedenis van de stad, met bijdragen van verschillende ACUH-leden.Call for Papers: The History of Knowledge Conference
20 February 2025In November 2023, the first ever international History of Knowledge Conference was organized in Porto, bringing together experts from a wide range of historical research fields. Following this successful event, the Lund Centre for the History of Knowledge (LUCK) is proud to host the second intern...Duitse verkiezingen 2025: wie volgt Scholz op als bondskanselier?
19 February 2025In het najaar van 2024 viel de Duitse regering voortijdig door een vertrouwensbreuk tussen Bondskanselier Scholz en minister Lindner van Financiën. Op 23 februari gaan onze oosterburen opnieuw naar de stembus om een nieuwe regering te kiezen. We blikken alvast vooruit met Hanco Jürgens, onderzoek...UvA-historici werken mee aan Het verhaal van Nederland - Amsterdam
5 February 2025In Het verhaal van Nederland - Amsterdam neemt Daan Schuurmans je in vier afleveringen mee door 750 jaar geschiedenis van onze hoofdstad. UvA-historici, onder wie Jouke Turpijn, Laura van Hasselt, Tim Verlaan, Bart Wallet, Frans Camphuijsen en Justyna Wubs-Mrozewicz, hebben aan de serie meegewerkt.Van vluchteling tot gelukszoeker: hoe de Republiek bepaalde wie welkom was
5 February 2025Migratie is momenteel een van de belangrijkste thema’s in de politiek, maar hoe ging Nederland in de vroegmoderne tijd om met vluchtelingen en migranten? Lotte van Hasselt onderzocht deze vraag in haar proefschrift 'Deserving Refugees? The Evolution of a concept in the Dutch Republic', waarop zij...Vossius Fund for Research Fellows 2026 open for applications
3 February 2025The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 1 June 2025 for fellowships in 2026.ASH Borrel | February 2025
3 February 2025We would like to invite the ASH-members for the next ASH-borrel!Vossius Research Fellow: Mathijs Boom
3 February 2025Mathijs Boom joins the Vossius Centre for three months from January 2025 as a research fellow with the project 'The Cimbrian Deluge: Ancient History and Environmental Reflexivity in the Early Modern Low Countries'.UvA-onderzoekers helpen Canon van Amsterdam te vernieuwen
29 January 2025Een commissie van experts onder leiding van UvA-historicus Paul Knevel gaat de Canon van Amsterdam kritisch onder de loep nemen. Na zeventien jaar is de canon namelijk toe aan een opfrisbeurt, vindt de gemeente Amsterdam. Ook UvA-hoogleraren Bart Wallet en Geertje Mak maken deel uit van de commis...KNAW Huygens and Thijssen-Schoute Stichting announce new fellowship programme
22 January 2025The KNAW Huygens institute and the Dr. C. Louise Thijssen-Schoute Stichting launch a new fellowship programme: Thijssen Schoute-fellowship.AUF Impact Call 2024 | Deadline 31 January
21 January 2025Do you have ambitions and plans for a special education or research project? Does your scientific project have a social impact? And are you looking for financing for your project? This autumn, the Amsterdam University Fund (AUF) will make € 200,000 available for projects by young researchers up t...
