Water and steam have been seen as a source of health for millennia, with natural springs and thermal waters especially prized for their healing properties. By the eighteenth century, physicians were recommending ...

This academic year the University of Amsterdam hosts three Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellows in Modern Greek Studies. Each will give a public lecture, and Dr. Despina Lalaki will be the first to do so. On ...

To mark the 20th anniversary of the establishment of the domain of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD and the University of Amsterdam this symposium takes stock of the accomplishments of the past, and draws ...

In 1990, artist Louwrien Wijers organised a high profile event entitled "Art meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy" with scientists, economists, spiritual leaders and artists. The event was hosted ...

Conversation with Awarded Spanish photographer Carlos Spottorno on the need for new European storytelling, how to avoid creating new European prejudices and why we all need understanding economical realities better.

For these difficult times we have added a Bounce Back workshop to our PhD skills programme. The Bounce Back workshop offers practical tools to boost your resilience in uncertain times. Resilience is the ability to ...

Catching history in the act, that is what the project In Europe Schools is all about.

Agnieszka Wielocha, AHM PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation entitled 'Collecting Archives of Objects and Stories: On the lives and futures of contemporary art at the museum', supervised by Prof. C.M.K.E. Lerm ...

Professor Memory, History and Transitional Justice and AHM academic staff member Nanci Adler draws in this short lecture attention to post-Soviet Russia’s ambivalent attitude toward its Stalinist past, and reflects ...

The virtual conference '[re]Shaping Exhibition Practices' is the second session of the tri-conference series '[re]Framing the Arts: A Sustainable Shift' of the Art/Switch Foundation, organized in collaboration with ...

Hermine Pool, AHM PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation entitled 'Soli Deo Gloria. Rev. Leendert Schouten (1828-1905) and his Museum of the Bible. A Testimony of the Prophetic and Historical Truth of the ...

The AHM research group 'Global Trajectories of Thought and Memory: Art from the Global South' invites Rolando Vázquez to present his latest work 'Vistas of Modernity: Decolonial Aesthesis and the End of the ...

The Modern and Contemporary research cluster of the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS) will continue its monthly meeting series with a second meeting - the first of 2021. For this meeting, the ...

Alia Yunis, AHM PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation entitled 'Coming Soon: Encounters on the Road to Heritage and Film in the UAE', supervised by Prof. R. van der Laarse and Prof. I.A.M. Saloul.

The Sustainability Summit Series will focus on the theme of ‘Memory Institutions and Traumatic Heritage’. There is tremendous power in trauma and conflict heritage to create empathy and transmit lessons to inspire a ...

'Archiving, Art and Activism' is an expert meeting of the AHM research group 'Global Trajectories of Thought and Memory: Art and the Global South' with artist and writer Gregory Sholette, who holds a PhD in History ...

We are delighted to invite you to the launch of the University of Amsterdam’s Platform for the Ethics and Politics of Technology: please join the (Zoom) opening event and discuss the next steps with us. Speakers at ...

The conference 'Institutional Approaches to Sustainability' is part of Art / Switch's virtual trilogy '[re]Framing the Arts: A Sustainable Shift' organized in collaboration with the Amsterdam School for Heritage, ...

Due to rapidly rising COVID numbers in Amsterdam, the Mythologies/Methodologies symposium (originally planned for 17 October 2020) has been transformed into a four-part live-stream series, which unfolds over four ...

Transmitting from the Amsterdam art space Rongwrong, If I Can’t Dance 2019–20 Research Fellow Giulia Damiani opens the series 'Mythologies/Methodologies. Approaching Feminist Collectivities of the 1970s and 1980s' ...