| | | Maartje van Gelder awarded NWO-Vici grant | | Maartje van Gelder has been awarded a Vici grant from the Dutch Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO). Van Gelder will investigate how regular people, men and women, influenced politics before they had the right to vote. And how their stories were recorded or silenced in the archive, thus determining how history has been written. She will do so by examining food protests, often led by women, in Dutch, Italian and Ottoman cities in the period between 1500-1800, when the Little Ice Age caused bad weather, poor harvests, and frequent famines. | |
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Meet the new ASH representatives | PhD representative: Elsa Lucassen
Elsa Lucassen’s research project, part of the NWO-funded Lived Time project led by Dr Sofie Remijsen, is called ‘The Changing Festival Calendar in Late Antique Egypt’. She studies the way the immense changes of Late Antiquity, such as the rise of Christianity, influenced the festival calendar and the effect this had on the conviviality of culturally and religiously diverse groups.
Postdoc representative: Sanne van den Berg
Sanne van den Berg obtained her PhD from the University of St Andrews in 2023 and has been a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Amsterdam since September 2023. She is a classicist and her project is part of the Anchoring Innovation Project (NWO Gravitation Grant), titled ‘Stylistic Anchoring in Flavian Epic’. | |
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Changes behind the scenes | There has been a change in the back-office. Since the start of March Ruby van Hooijdonk has started as the supporter for the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies, taking over Dian Hulsebosch's duties. You can reach Ruby for enquiries about events, invitations, and administrative issues, as well as anything related to the website and newsletter.
Luckily we don't have to say goodbye to Dian, as she has taken on the role of coordinator for ASH since November. She is the point of contact for everyone in organizing and communicating ASH's research activities and PhDs.
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Peter van Dam appointed professor of Dutch history | | Peter van Dam has been appointed Professor of Dutch history at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam. With this chair group, he wants to work on a new story about the Netherlands, in which globalisation, (de)colonisation and environment history will, of course, play a major role. The history of sustainability is a key focus in his own research. | | Read the full article here → |
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| Hanneke Grootenboer appointed professor of Early Modern Art and Visual Culture | | Her field of expertise is Dutch visual culture of the seventeenth century, at the interface of visual art, material culture, philosophy and literature. In her scholarship, Grootenboer looks at historical objects through the lens of contemporary art and theory. | | Read the full article here → |
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Call for applications Vossius Fund for Research Fellows | Deadline 1 June 2024
The Vossius Center offers funding for Research Fellows. The next deadline is 1 June 2024 for fellowships in 2025. Meant for inviting top researchers for 1-3 months to the UvA. Candidates should have a clear affinity with the history of humanities and/or sciences. | |
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Call for Applications Summer School Deutsche Gesellschaft e.V. | The Deutsche Gesellschaft e. V. is calling for applications for its Summer School that will take place in Berlin from 5 - 9 August 2024 (funded by the Federal Foundation for the Study of the Communist Dictatorship in East Germany). Applications must be submitted by 15 May 2024.
We invite 15 Master's students and PhD-candidates in the social sciences and humanities from Europe to engage with the role of protest in exile for regime-transformation and its political and societal implications in both country of origin and host country, and to discuss them with experts from the fields of science, politics and civil society. | |
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Impact Program by IXA | Create more societal impact through your research and teaching. The work you do as a researcher and teacher is important. But how do you increase your societal or economic impact? The Impact Program will provide you with answers and more.
Program: a total of 6 days over a 6-month period
Starting dates: 26 September in English
Costs: €2,750 (€1,375 budget faculty, department or OZI and €1,375 funded by IXA)
Application process: participants are nominated by their department, faculty board or research institute
Register: your department manager can register you through the faculty board or board of your research institute for the program.
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| | Shut up and Write! | | Oudemanhuispoort, 09:00 - 17:00 | | An initiative for ASH PhD researchers. Consider this day a writing retreat close to home. Together with your colleagues you will share a room in silence and help each other refrain from distraction and completely focus on writing for an entire day. |
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| | Boekpresentatie door Jeroen Jansen (in Dutch) | | Universiteitsbibliotheek, Doelenzaal, 15:30 - 17:00 | | Voorafgaand aan de boekpresentatie vertelt Jeroen Jansen over het onderzoek achter Literair vermaak in de zeventiende eeuw. Welke rode lijnen trof hij aan en welke bevindingen springen eruit? |
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| | Dissertation Defence Arjan Nuijten | | Agnietenkapel, 13:00 | | Arjan Nuijten will defend the dissertation 'Regulating Paradise. The Local Origins of Harm Reduction in the Netherlands'. Supervisors are Prof. J.C. Kennedy and Prof. G. Blok. The co-supervisor is Dr P.H. van Dam. |
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