Hoe zag protest er de afgelopen vijf eeuwen uit in Amsterdam? Voor de jubileumexpositie Amsterdam in Motion dook de Universiteit van Amsterdam in het mondige verleden van de stad. In samenwerking met het Amsterdam ...

Afgelopen week ontvingen we het verdrietige nieuws dat Ivan Kisjes, research engineer bij het CREATE Lab, geheel onverwachts is overleden. Ivan was sinds 2004 verbonden aan onze faculteit, eerst als student en daarna ...

In his seminal work De Jure Praedae, Hugo Grotius, often recognised as the ‘father of international law’, argued that commerce with Asia was essential for sustaining the Dutch state. The Dutch East India Company ...

Call for Papers 2026 ASCA Workshop organised by Eleri Connick, Rodrigo Brum, and Sabahat Zehra | Amsterdam, 3-5 June 2026 | Deadline for proposals: 25 January 2026

Carolina Torres, graduate of the Master’s programme in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage at the University of Amsterdam, has won the Rijksmuseum Migelien Gerritzen thesis award 2025 with her Master’s ...

Are you an early career researcher at the University of Amsterdam working within one of the many disciplines in the field of Jewish Studies? Are you in the early stages of your research, or nearing the completion of ...

Hoe zag jouw huis er 50 of 100 jaar geleden uit? Hoe werd Amsterdam vroeger beschermd tegen overstromingen? En hoe beleefden Amsterdamse vrouwen de Tweede Wereldoorlog? De Amsterdam Time Machine, een publieke ...

Musicologist Barbara Titus recently travelled to the Indonesian island Nias in order to bring back digitised sound recordings, film and photos to the villages where they come from. The recordings, which were made in ...