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UvA Humanities researchers are invited to submit workshop proposals for 2500 euros in all areas of the Humanities and Cognitive Science by 31 December 2019.

Imme Lammertink's latest blog has been published on wetenschap.nu and nu.nl. Her blog describes the positive effect that writing Sinterklaas poems has on language development in children.

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam invites applications for two visiting research fellowships in the field of Modern Greek Studies for early- and mid- career scholars who wish to pursue (part ...

UvA's Faculty of Humanities has awarded a Finishing Fellowship to seven of its PhD candidates: Hongmei Fang and Thom Westveer (Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication), Özge Calafato, Wouter Capitain and ...

Zeven promovendi ontvangen van de Faculteit der Geesteswetenschappen een Finishing Fellowship voor de afronding van hun promotie-onderzoek: Hongmei Fang en Thom Westveer (Amsterdam Centre for Language and ...

ACLC PhD candidates Hongmei Fang and Thom Westveer have both been awarded a finishing fellowship from the Faculty of Humanities.

Marloes Oomen, ACLC PhD candidate, has been awarded a Niels Stensen Fellowship to carry out postdoctoral research at the Institut Jean Nicod in Paris.

Following the establishment in 2017 of the UvA’s Interdisciplinary Doctorate Agreement (IDA), a gathering was held on Monday, 21 October, at the Institute for Advanced Studies to celebrate the hiring of the last of ...

The UvA FGw Aspasia Fund is currently inviting applications for the year 2020. The fund was established as an encouragement for women faculty members, to help them take a next step in their career by strengthening ...

ACLC is pleased to announce that Thom Westveer is the new ACLC PhD representative. In this role, he represents the ACLC PhD community in the PhD Council Board, the Graduate Study Committee and the ACLC Advisory Board.

The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the funding scheme 'Cutting Edge Research Fund' that fosters (inter)national collaboration aimed at innovative, cutting edge research. The call for proposals for the Cutting Edge ...

The Faculty of Humanities invites applications for 0.5 FTE PhD Finishing Fellowships, tenable from January 1, 2020. Deadline for applications: October 1, 2019.

The UvA Faculty of Humanities offers the Research Innovation and Sustainability (RIS) Fund that aims to support research staff in their career development and to expand their opportunities to conduct research. The ...

Save the date (October 4th, 2019): ILLC invites all colleagues at UvA and CWI interested in their research to visit the institute, watch posters and demo's, attend flash talks and enjoy drinks afterwards. More ...

Kees Hengeveld, Professor of Theoretical Linguistics at the ACLC, has been elected as a member of the Academia Europaea.

Enoch Aboh, Professor of Learnability, has been appointed as the new director of the ACLC. As of 1 August he will be the successor of Paul Boersma, who was the ACLC director for five years.

Cindy van Boven has been awarded a PhD position in the highly competitive NWO PhDs in the Humanities programme, which she will carry out within ACLC. She will start her project in September 2019.

KNIR Colloquia are small, exclusive expert meetings, hosted and funded by the Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome. Their purpose is to offer early or mid-career academics from all fields the opportunity to improve ...

Dr Eva van Lier has been awarded a Vidi grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) for research that she will carry out at the UvA.

Metaphor has recently been reconceptualised as a fundamental part of the human conceptual system.