Commissioned by the Dutch Government, Rob van der Laarse, Charles Jeurgens and Sabina Tanović examined how Churchillplein 1 in The Hague, the former home of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former ...

Drawings—like all works of art—are prone to physical and chemical changes caused by environmental factors, handling, display, and the natural aging of their materials. Paper and parchment may warp, tear, and ...

Dr Fabiana Di Gianvincenzo has recently joined the Van ’t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences (HIMS) on a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship funded under the Horizon Europe programme. In the two-year ...

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 ...