Art / Switch is returning with its fourth edition of the virtual series '[re]Framing the Arts: A Sustainable Shift', inviting speakers on the topic of new materials and new-uses of known materials to explore how we ...

Lidwien Speleers, AHM PhD candidate, will defend her dissertation entitled 'The painting materials and techniques of the twelve painters in the Oranjezaal (1648-1652), Huis ten Bosch Palace', supervised by Prof. J. ...

Ute Lotz-Heumann will provide an overview of the vital role that late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century German spas played as spaces where new ways of perceiving the natural environment and conceptualizing ...

This academic year the University of Amsterdam hosts three Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellows in Modern Greek Studies; and each will deliver a public lecture. Dr. Emilia Salvanou will speak on 28 May about ...

In this Archetype Book Talk Jo Kirby, Maarten van Bommel, Ilaria Degano and Joanne Dyer will talk about the Dyes in History and Archaeology meetings and books.

“Beware! Against the poison that is Africa, there is but one antidote: Vichy.” So ran a 1924 advertisement for one of France’s main spas. Why and how were mineral waters recruited in imperial projects? How did ...

Nour Munawar, AHM PhD candidate, will defend his dissertation entitled 'Lifecycles of cultural heritage in conflict. Destruction, Reconstruction and Representation in Syria and Iraq', supervised by Prof. J. Symonds ...

Stella Ghervas (Newcastle University) will give the lecture “Conquering Peace: From the Enlightenment to the European Union” in the Utrecht/Amsterdam Seminar Global Intellectual History.

Presentation by Pamela Jordan in the ASCA Aurality Seminar organized by Emily Hansell Clark and Barbara Titus. Contact: Emily Hansell Clark

SoPHIA, Social Platform for Holistic Heritage Impact Assessment, invites researchers, practitioners and interested politicians to a collective reflection on the diverse impact of cultural heritage during the two-day ...

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 ...

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 ...